{"id":50590,"date":"2024-04-07T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T05:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50590"},"modified":"2024-04-07T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T05:56:30","slug":"trump-rakes-in-50-mn-as-fundraising-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50590","title":{"rendered":"Trump rakes in $50 mn as fundraising war with Biden heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign said it took in more than $50 million at a single fundraising event Saturday in Florida &#8212; the latest salvo in a swaggering, high-stakes battle for big money with Joe Biden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While spending huge sums of money on campaigning may not be something to brag about in some countries, it&#8217;s often a source of pride for US political candidates.<\/p>\n<p>And this year, raising big bucks is as important as ever, with the November 5 presidential election expected to be the most expensive electoral cycle in US history.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican former president and the Democratic incumbent have been working to outraise each other for months, boasting about each new significant cash infusion.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, 81, raised the stakes at the end of March when he headlined a huge event in New York with former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at his side, raking in at least $25 million &#8212; a record, according to his team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign said it took in more than $50 million at a single fundraising event Saturday in Florida &#8212; the latest salvo in a swaggering, high-stakes battle for big money with Joe Biden. While spending huge sums of money on campaigning may not be something to brag about in some countries, it&#8217;s often a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1067],"class_list":["post-50590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-rakes-in-50-mn-as-fundraising-war-with-biden-heats-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}