Former President Donald Trump commands a significant lead among Georgia’s top political donors ahead of the state’s primary.
Trump has gathered nearly double the funds compared to President Joe Biden from Georgians who have given $200 or more, the latest filings from the Federal Election Commission show. Trump has raised $2.2 million, which places Georgia as the sixth top state in terms of financial backing for the former president’s campaign. Biden has brought in $1.7 million, trailing the Republican in the cash race and state polling. Nevertheless, the Democratic president leads Trump by $18 million nationally.
Trump led the presidential primary field in terms of donors, seeing funds from 60,000 Georgia donors. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who suspended her presidential campaign after Trump swept to victory in the Super Tuesday elections, gathered support from more than 16,000 donors. Biden brought in donations from 6,217 people this election cycle.
As Georgia voters head to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballot for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, Trump is facing another kind of battle with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. A Georgia judge is expected to make a ruling any day now after a weekslong hearing into allegations about Willis’s relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Attorneys for Trump argued Willis should be removed from Georgia’s election interference case against the former president due to her romantic relationship with Wade.
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Wade and Willis testified that their relationship began after the district attorney hired him to lead Trump’s case for allegedly attempting to steal the election in 2020, but prosecutors presented the Fulton County judge with documents that question their timeline.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will now decide whether Willis’s office can remain on the case against Trump, as the former president’s hush money criminal trial is set to start in New York in less than two weeks.