Former President Donald Trump is causing panic in the White House as he continues to creep in on President Joe Biden, with new polls showing that the former president is starting to gain on President Biden in blue states.
“[FOX News reports] when all the money is counted, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is expected to haul in roughly $27.5 million from the fundraisers he held in California and one in Las Vegas, Nevada, late last week and this past weekend. I mean, listen, he is not going to win California, Katie. But he was treated well in California and came away a bunch of cash,” Fox News host Trace Gallagher said this week.
“Well, it certainly makes Democrats nervous, and it makes it so they have to look at the map and say, okay, where do we have to actually spend resources to defend our turf?” Katie Pavlich of Townhall.com said this week during a Fox News segment.
“As Joe Biden continues to try and cobble his base together ahead of the election, that’s not a place Democrats want to be. They want to have the blue territory solid. They don’t want Trump eating into that but he is making it uncomfortable in places like Michigan and Nevada, and while is he talking about not taxing tips,” Pavlich continued. “Where people in Las Vegas are saying I’d vote for Trump for that, you have the spokesperson for the Biden campaign talking about the weaponization of government when a number of people in polling think the system has been weaponized against the former president.”
It comes after the former president held massive rallies in New York and New Jersey and raised more than $12 million in a San Francisco fundraiser hosted by David Sacks, who spoke to Fox News host Jesse Watters.
“We had over a hundred people there, and it really was a total love fest. And then out in the streets, the San Francisco newspaper has been trying all week to gin up protesters, and nothing really materialized at all but hundreds of people to demonstrate in favor of President Trump, and they were cheering all along his motorcade so if that’s the enthusiasm gap in a liberal place at San Francisco, what is a tell you about the rest of the country?” the billionaire said.
“We had a lot of people in that room who had never donated to Republicans before or to Trump; they were new donors, or they have always been Democrat donors, and yet they came out. And I think I entreat that to the fact that Trump is making inroads into Silicon Valley and that also Biden is really alienating people,” he said.
“He’s really pursued a very hostile program towards innovation. He’s been very hostile towards crypto, he’s wanted to overregulate AI, and he’s basically shut down all M&A. So I think there are a lot of people in technology who are asking, what good is this for us? How does it help us to have another four years of President Biden? And I believe that Trump has basically declared that he is the crypto president, he is in favor of innovation, he is willing to listen. I think he listened extremely well to people in that room, and he fundamentally wants America to do well,” Sacks added.