President Trump on Thursday night accused Democratic nominee Joe Biden of raising large sums of money from Wall Street donors, saying he could blow up Biden's fundraising campaign but did not need the campaign.
In
the presidential debate, Biden appeared to accuse Trump of being in contact
with stock traders who tried to take advantage of the collapse of the market by
hitting COVID-19.
Trump
retorted that Biden had set his own fundraising record by taking big money from
Wall Street.
"You're
the guy who takes all the money off Wall Street, I don't take it," Trump
said. "You raised a lot of money, a lot of money. And every time you raise
money, there are deals. I can raise that much money, as president and someone
who knows most of these people, I Wall Street is the head of every company in
America and I will blow up every record. But I don't want to do that because
it has put me in a bad situation ... You take money from Wall Street. No, not
me. I can blow your record like you can't believe it. "
Biden
rejected Trump's claim, saying his average donation was $ 43.
Trump
began the election cycle with a big cash advantage over Biden. But the
president's campaign spent too much in the early days of the cycle, and the
Biden campaign has beaten Trump in raising funds every month this year, except
for one.
Biden's campaign came to the bank in October with more than $ 177 million, while
Trump's campaign entered the last month with only $ 63.1 million.
Trump
says he doesn't need extra cash, pointing to 2016 when Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton angered him.
"We
don't need money, we have enough money," Trump said. "We actually
beat Hillary Clinton by a small fraction of what she could have raised."
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