周四，唐纳德·特朗普总统的连任竞选活动以4600万美元的收入结束了今年最后一个筹款季度，超过了民主党的主要对手，他们的竞选活动也公布了数字。
特朗普尽管遭到弹劾——或者可能正因为如此——但在2019年以他最强劲的筹款季度和手头1.027亿美元的现金结束了竞选。
到目前为止，伯尼·桑德斯参议员在民主党领域名列前茅，他报告说，他在最后一个季度筹集了3450万美元。紧随其后的是南本德市长皮特·巴蒂吉，他报告了2470万美元；前副总统乔·拜登报告了2270万美元；企业家杨安泽报告了1650万美元。塔尔西·加巴德议员以340万美元紧随其后。
其他2020年民主党最有希望的候选人，如参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦，在联邦选举委员会公开信息之前，还没有公布第四季度的筹款统计数据。然而，沃伦上周报告说，她在今年最后一个季度筹集了大约1700万美元。
唐纳德·特朗普总统12月21日在佛罗里达州西棕榈滩棕榈滩县会议中心的转折点美国学生行动峰会上做手势。
前住房和城市发展部部长朱利安·卡斯特罗周四上午宣布结束他的候选资格。
特朗普竞选经理布拉德·帕斯凯尔(Brad Parscale)在一份附有第四季度统计数据的声明中表示，总统的筹款成功归功于“他广泛的基层支持和代表美国人民取得的辉煌成就”。帕斯凯尔还引用了众议院的“虚假弹劾狂热”该运动在2019年共筹集了1.43亿美元，不包括共和党全国委员会筹集的资金，该委员会也将把资金用于总统连任。
桑德斯在推特上说，他的平均捐款额为18美元，自他开始参选以来，他已经收到了120万人的500万份捐款，他补充说，这是“比任何候选人都多的捐款”...在美国政治史上。”他去年筹集了9600万美元，仅在12月就筹集了1800万美元。
但他在推特上宣布，全年共有733，000人向igieg捐赠了200万美元，总计7600万美元。
拜登竞选团队表示，从第三季度开始，其在线筹款翻了一番，57%的捐赠者首次捐款。竞选团队在给支持者的一封电子邮件中，将筹款总额吹捧为拜登“整个竞选活动中最佳的筹款季度”拜登在网上的平均贡献是23美元，总体平均贡献是41美元。自4月份宣布竞选以来，他已经筹集了5950万美元。
周二，在第四季度的最后24个小时里，杨致远筹集了130多万美元，该运动称这部分是由于民主党全国委员会拒绝了杨的要求，要求他们委托更多的早期州选举在下一次初选辩论之前。该活动在发布筹款统计数据时表示，杨致远“看到捐款大幅增加，包括来自1万多名首次捐款者的捐款”。杨竞选团队在2019年收到的平均捐款额是30美元。他有来自40万捐助者的100万捐款。
DONALD TRUMP RAISED MORE MONEY THAN ALL TOP DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL OPPONENTS IN LAST QUARTER OF 2019
President Donald Trump's re-election campaign ended the year's final fundraising quarter by bringing in $46 million, the campaign said Thursday, outraising the top Democratic opponents whose campaigns have also released numbers.
Trump, despite his impeachment—or perhaps because of it—wrapped 2019 with his strongest fundraising quarter and with $102.7 million cash on hand.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) topped the Democratic field so far, reporting that he raised $34.5 million during the final quarter. He was followed by South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who reported $24.7 million; former Vice President Joe Biden, who reported $22.7 million; and entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who reported $16.5 million. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) trailed the pack with $3.4 million.
Other top 2020 Democratic hopefuls, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), had yet to release their fourth-quarter fundraising statistics ahead of the information becoming publicly available by the Federal Elections Commission. However, Warren reported last week that she raised about $17 million in the last quarter of the year.
President Donald Trump gestures during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida on December 21.
ment Secretary Julian Castro announced the end to his candidacy Thursday morning.
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale attributed the president's fundraising success to "his wide grassroots support and his stellar record of achievement on behalf of the American people," he said in a statement released with quarter four statistics. Parscale also cited the House's "sham impeachment frenzy." The campaign raised a total of $143 million in 2019 and does not include funds raised by the Republican National Committee, which will also put its funds toward re-electing the president.
Sanders said on Twitter his average donation was $18 and that since the start of his candidacy, he's received 5 million contributions from 1.2 million people, which he added, was "more contributions from more people than any candidate...in the history of American politics." He raised $96 million last year and brought in $18 million in December alone.
Buttigieg received 2 million donations from 733,000 people throughout the year, he announced on Twitter, bringing in a total of $76 million.
The Biden campaign said it doubled its online fundraising from the third quarter and that 57 percent of donors contributed for the first time. The fundraising total was touted by the campaign in an email to supporters as Biden's "BEST fundraising quarter of the entire campaign!" Biden's average online contribution was $23 and overall average was $41. Since his campaign announcement in April, he's raised $59.5 million.
In the last 24 hours of the fourth quarter on Tuesday, Yang raised more than $1.3 million, which the campaign said was in part a result of the Democratic National Committee denying Yang's request for them to commission more early-state polls ahead of the next primary debate. Yang "saw a massive uptick in contributions, including from over 10,000 first-time donors," the campaign said in its release of its fundraising statistics. The average donation amount the Yang campaign received during 2019 was $30. He had 1 million contributions from 400,000 donors.
