when Joe Biden makes fun of “broke Don”

This is the crux of an electoral campaign. And in the United States perhaps more than elsewhere. If Donald Trump is ahead in the polls, it is Joe Biden who is ahead… in the bank. Money does not enter the coffers of candidates Biden and Trump in the same way. According to their latest monthly declarations, published Thursday March 21 by the competent regulatory authority, the Democratic president had a little more than $71 million in new money at the end of February, double that of Donald Trump. ($33.5 million).

Immediately, Joe Biden’s campaign team hastened to crush “Broke Don” in an email about the billionaire, which portrays him as a vaguely senile failure. “The other day, a crestfallen-looking guy came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, I need your help. I’m drowning in debt. I am on my knees.’ And I had to tell him ‘Donald, there’s nothing I can do for you‘” he joked on Wednesday, March 20, during a meeting with donors in Texas.

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Donald Trump’s financial horizon is also very bleak: the champion of “Make America Great Again” spends much more than his opponent, particularly with his legal costs, reaching $50 million last year in fees. lawyers and nearly 6 million in February 2024 alone… Not counting the almost half a billion ($454 million fine) to be found before Monday March 25 to avoid seizures in the trial for financial fraud in within his real estate empire. So, he multiplies the events to court the major financiers of the Republican Party, with private dinners organized at his Florida residence. Even Elon Musk was there less than three weeks ago. But officially, Donald Trump did not ask the Tesla boss for money.

According to experts, 2024 promises to be the most expensive electoral cycle in American history, with amounts even higher than the $14.4 billion spent in 2020 around the various polls – presidential, legislative and other local elections.