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Bloomberg's contribution included $19 million to an independent
pro-Biden group known as Future Forward or FF PAC, and over
$900,000 to the Biden Victory Fund, which is an amalgamation of
the Biden campaign and Democratic Party committees, the sources
added, asking not to be identified.
The donations were first reported by the Washington Post. The
Biden campaign did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
Bloomberg, the former New York mayor who spent $1 billion of his
own money on a failed 2020 presidential bid in the Democratic
primaries, injected at least $100 million to help Biden's
campaign against Trump in Florida in 2020. Trump, who lost the
overall 2020 race to Biden, had won in Florida by over three
percentage points.
Biden and Trump have mostly been tied in national polls.
Democrats have maintained an overall cash advantage over Trump
and the Biden campaign continues to have a considerably larger
war chest. Biden's campaign reported $84 million in the bank at
the end of April, compared to $49 million reported by Trump.
However, Biden campaign's fundraising in April lagged Trump's
for the first time, after the former president ramped up his
joint operation with the Republican National Committee and
headlined high-dollar fundraisers.
Pro-Trump spending groups have spent more than $25 million since
Trump clinched the Republican nomination on March 6, Federal
Election Commission records show, compared to more than $15
million spent by Biden's allies during the same time.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Nandita Bose in Washington;
editing by Diane Craft)
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