{"id":5143,"date":"2025-03-20T21:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2025-03-20T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:49:52","slug":"dnc-reports-record-february-grassroots-fundraising-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=5143","title":{"rendered":"DNC reports record February grassroots fundraising haul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democrats are settling into the year with some of their strongest February grassroots fundraising numbers on record, according to the Democratic National Committee, which says it brought in $9 million during the critical first full month of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s presidency with an average donation of less than $35.<\/p>\n

In a memo obtained exclusively by ABC News, the DNC says the haul was from more than 200,000 grassroots donors across all 50 states. They attribute the gains, in part, to the fact that \u201cAmericans are ready to stand up and fight back against the Trump administration\u2019s overwhelmingly unpopular agenda.\u201d In February 2016, following the first full month of Trump\u2019s previous term, the party recorded pulling in less than $5 million in grassroots fundraising.<\/p>\n

The haul also comes amid Ken Martin\u2019s first month as party chair. The DNC cites the Minnesota Democrat\u2019s leadership as another reason they saw a boost in grassroots support. Top-performing fundraising emails, texts and peer-to-peer messages were signed by Martin in the month since his election on Feb. 1, the memo says.<\/p>\n

But the fundraising increase comes as the Democratic Party grapples with low approval ratings and intraparty fighting around their overall direction and response to the Trump administration\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

A few recent polls indicate that the general public does not see any one person as leading the Democratic Party. One, from CNN\/SSRS published on Sunday<\/a>, found no consensus among American adults over which Democratic leader \u201cbest reflects the core values of the Democratic Party,\u201d while also showing that the Democratic Party\u2019s favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low.<\/p>\n

Just last week, a contentious battle brewed on Capitol Hill over whether to pass a GOP-approved government funding bill, hurled the party into discussions over their strategy and about potential changes in their leadership ranks.<\/a><\/p>\n

The DNC, however, has recently made plays to carve out its own lane among the larger party as a leading voice in response to Trump and Republicans.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the National Republican Congressional Committee\u2019s recent calls for GOP House members to pull back on hosting in-person town hall events while constituents have become heated about DOGE\u2019s cuts to the federal workforce, the DNC started pairing with other organizations and state parties across the country to host \u201cPeople\u2019s Town Halls\u201d in competitive districts with vulnerable GOP House incumbents.<\/p>\n

Another bright spot for Democrats in February, according to DNC fundraising data set to be publicly filed with the Federal Elections<\/a> Commission later Thursday, is that this month marked the DNC\u2019s best fundraising month via digital ads in an off-year, with more than $1 million raised.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect significant return on investment by the 2026 midterms,\u201d the DNC said in the memo.<\/p>\n

The DNC is prioritizing \u201cbalancing high-performing fundraising formats\u201d with \u201cnew content that educates donors and invites them to volunteer or give the DNC feedback to better understand their priorities in our fight against Donald Trump,\u201d according to the memo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrats are settling into the year with some of their strongest February grassroots fundraising numbers on record, according to the Democratic National Committee, which says it brought in $9 million during the critical first full month of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency with an average donation of less than $35. In a memo obtained exclusively by ABC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5145,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions\/5145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}