GOP congressional campaign committees rake in $660K after Trump verdict, highest single-day haul of cycle
Congressional Republican campaign committees shattered records for the highest single-day haul of this election cycle following former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented conviction in Manhattan.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) raised at least $300,000 on Thursday, topping the $175,000 in donations it received after the Oct. 25 election of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
The NRCC intake was first reported by Punchbowl News. The committee is chaired by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC).
“The American people hate how the justice system was weaponized to convict President Trump,” said NRCC national press secretary Will Reinert.
“They are opening up their wallets to protest Joe Biden and House Democrats’ kangaroo court, and they will deliver the final verdict with their votes this November.”
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) also had a red-letter Thursday with $360,000 in donations.
“Outrage over this sham verdict spurred grassroots Americans into action,” NRSC executive director Jason Thielman said.
The NRSC’s previous record was set at $325,000 on Super Tuesday, when Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination
Trump, 77, was found guilty by a Manhattan jury of 34 felony counts of fudging business records to hide evidence of a $130,000 “hush money” payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels in the final days of the 2016 election campaign to conceal an alleged 2006 extramarital affair.
Crowds of pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators packed the streets outside the Manhattan courthouse as the verdict was announced, waving Trump 2024 flags and signs declaring “Not Above The Law,” depending on their opinion.
WinRed, the official donation portal for the Republican Party, crashed less than an hour after the verdict, with House GOP leaders like conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) spurring on the contributions.
On Friday morning, the Trump campaign announced it had raised a whopping $34.8 million since the candidate’s conviction.
“The historic surge of support for President Donald Trump totaling over $34 million in donations shows the American people taking action against the unAmerican weaponization of our justice system and illegal election interference,” Stefanik told The Post.
“Yesterday’s rigged verdict exposed the deep-rooted rot within Joe Biden’s corrupt Justice Department that is an arm of the failing Democrat Party. The American people know that the only verdict that matters comes on Election Day when the people will elect President Trump in November to save America.”
One Trump campaign official told the Wall Street Journal that a fundraiser was held at a private residence Thursday night.
Former Long Island Congressman and Trump campaign surrogate Lee Zeldin said the same night on X that a “massive ask” for an $800,000 donation to the former president’s joint fundraising committee the same evening had never been so “easy.”
“I’M A POLITICAL PRISONER! I was just convicted in a RIGGED political Witch Hunt trial: I DID NOTHING WRONG!” read one message from the Trump National Committee Joint Fundraising Committee blasted out on Truth Social as news of the jury’s decision broke.
“YOUR SUPPORT IS THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN US AND TOTAL TYRANNY!” the frantic appeal went on. “So I need 10 MILLION TRUE MAGA PATRIOTS to chip in and proudly shout: I STAND WITH TRUMP!”
The Trump campaign took in $4.18 million the day after he was booked and his mugshot was taken at a Fulton County, Georgia, jail in August.
The Georgia and New York City cases are two of four criminal indictments brought against the former president ahead of the 2024 election, along with federal indictments in Washington, DC, and south Florida.
Trump will be sentenced in Manhattan on July 11, one week before he formally accepts the Republican presidential nomination. His attorneys have vowed to appeal the decision “as soon as we can.”
Johnson told radio host Hugh Hewitt in a Friday morning interview that “it’s a certainty that it will be overturned.”
“We know that Michael Cohen perjured himself on the stand. He should have been impugned as a witness, and he wasn’t, and the entire case is premised and built upon his testimony,” he said.
“This will drag this out now for another month for sentencing and then all the way through the convention,” he added. “That’s the game.”
