Trump Campaign Tells Donors It Raised $76 Million in April

Senior advisers to the former president highlighted the numbers at an R.N.C. event in Florida and said they are looking to expand the electoral map.

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Former President Donald J. Trump was scheduled to speak to donors midday on Saturday.

Donald J. Trump’s campaign advisers told donors during a presentation at a Republican National Committee retreat on Saturday that Mr. Trump’s campaign and the party were projected to raise $76.2 million in April, according to two people who attended the briefing.

Mr. Trump’s three top advisers — Susie Wiles, Chris LaCivita and Tony Fabrizio — briefed donors, presented a slide show and took questions afterward, the attendees said. The attendees were not authorized to speak publicly about the event, which was a closed-door briefing and gathering for party donors.

Mr. Trump’s advisers presented a bullish case for the candidate that included the possibility of expanding the electoral map to include the Democratic-leaning states of Minnesota and Virginia. They also noted that Mr. Trump has remained mostly ahead in polls even while being outspent by President Biden, just as the former president was outspent in the primary by his rivals.

The Federal Election Commission will not receive fund-raising reports until later this month, meaning the numbers can’t be verified until then. In March, Mr. Trump and his allied groups reported raising $65.6 million — a significant amount, but still well below what President Biden and his affiliated outside groups have raised.

The donor event comes at a highly unusual juncture in the 2024 campaign. Mr. Trump is both the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee and also spending four days a week in a Manhattan courtroom in a criminal trial related to falsified business records intended to conceal hush-money payments made to a porn star in the 2016 campaign.

Mr. Trump was scheduled to speak to donors midday on Saturday. A spokesman for Mr. Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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