To raise money, 554 emails and 195 text messages were sent, since the United States elections on Nov. 3, through President Donald Trump’s campaign to his followers, it reported CNN.
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In the posts of the past few days people are asked to donate a minimum of $ 30 “to receive the Trump 2021 calendar,” the US media said.
This isn’t the first time Trump has asked his supporters for money. In accordance with Los Angeles Times, for the days after the election, before Democrat Joe Biden’s victory was confirmed, messages were also sent that They appealed to the designated Official Electoral Defense Fund and signed by the current President of the United States, his children, or Vice President Mike Pence.
The Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence.
“There are ridiculous differences in the votes across the country, which is why my father set up the Electoral Defense Task Force to FIGHT this corruption,” was one of the messages sent at the time by Trump’s son Eric. signed. California media reported.
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For Michael Malbin, a professor of political science at the State University of New York, “anger and rejection … are powerful motivators” for support, in this case, financial, for a cause.
And it is that, in his struggle to deny his defeat, the US president even paid $ 3 million for vote counting in two counties of the state of Wisconsin. But that number may seem small.
According to the magazine’s data, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee collected $ 207.5 million in practically a month from November 3 to December 4. Forbes.
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* With information from AFP
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