Biden Campaign Cashed In Big Day Following Trump’s Conviction 

The Biden campaign had its best online fundraising day so far following former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction by a Manhattan jury, according to Politico.

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and two of his joint fundraising committees collectively raked in $8.1 million on May 31, the day after Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records, Politico reported. The post-conviction bump constituted Biden’s best online fundraising day of the campaign so far, with the president attracting over 114,000 donations on May 31.

“When people hear Trump is getting all this money from his donor base off of , Democratic donors are automatically like, ‘OK, how do we counter that?” one Democratic operative said, according to Politico.

The Biden campaign sent out a fundraising email at 9:41 p.m. on May 30, after the former president was convicted, titled “Let’s keep Trump out of the White House,” according to an archive of political fundraising emails. “You know that I hate to ask, but there couldn’t be a more important moment for you to make your first donation to keep this guy out of the White House once and for all,” the email says.

Biden’s campaign sent out another email the following morning titled “Apropos of nothing,” a phrase meaning without reference to anything in particular, again soliciting donations by saying “we think today’s a great day to give to our campaign.”

The Biden campaign drew in about 52,000 new donors on May 31, its biggest haul of the campaign, according to Politico.