Still, the campaign officials said there were signs of enthusiasm, adding that 30% of campaign donors this past quarter had not previously donated to Biden’s 2020 campaign.Ī fundraising sweepstakes to meet the president was especially successful, raising nearly $2 million, campaign officials said. Responding to questions about the fewer number of individual donors for Biden compared with Obama’s first quarter of reelection fundraising, Biden campaign officials pointed to a “very different” political climate that has made grassroots fundraising more challenging across the board this year, with political fatigue setting in on both the right and the left. Obama launched his campaign three weeks earlier in the second quarter of 2011 than Biden did this year, and as a result, Biden campaign officials noted that they raised more per day than Obama’s campaign did in that quarter. The disparity in maximum contributions between the two cycles is even higher when totaling the maximum allowed contribution to joint fundraising committees. This cycle, the individual limit is $3,300. Donor contribution limits were lower in the 2012 cycle than they are now: Individual donors could give a maximum of $2,500 to Obama’s campaign when he ran for a second term. Obama’s campaign also boasted 158,000 more individual donors in that quarter than Biden’s reported total. Slow pace of Biden's reelection campaign feeds Democrats' 2024 anxiety President Joe Biden waves upon arrival in Helsinki, Finland, on July 12, 2023.
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