The Obama campaign, in concert with the DNC, raised $43.6 million in April, the campaign announced through a video featuring campaign manager Jim Messina. That number is well below their March haul of $53 million. It’s also slightly less than the $45 million raised in February.
In the video, Messina boasts 169,500 first time donors last month, which Messina says puts the campaign close to 2 million donors this cycle. The average donation was $50.23, while 98 percent of donations were $250 or less.
Messina also stresses the massive spending against the president from Republican super PACs, an amount the video puts at close to $60 million having already been spent against him. In contrast to negative ads to outside groups, Messina describes the president’s strategy as positive, including his latest set of campaign ads touting the president’s record. Messina also goes into some details about the campaign’s ground game in swing states — it is working to put field officers on the ground and register voters, he says.
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