Michael Whatley, chair of the Republican National Committee, told Newsmax on Wednesday that fundraising for former President Donald Trump is rising, and he's regaining the support of many mainstream Americans who left him in 2020 because of the contrasts people can draw from his administration and President Joe Biden's.
"We have four years under President Trump to compare to four years under Joe Biden, and the American people understand that we had a very strong economy under President Trump," Whatley told "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "We had a very strong standing in the world. We had a very secure southern border. You look at where we are right now. Our standing in the world is extremely diminished.
"The world is a much more dangerous place. Ten million illegal immigrants that we know of have crossed our southern border. We don't know who they are, where they are, or what they're doing. And the economy is completely wrecked at this point in time. Inflation is hurting every American family. You have a real contrast in this election cycle."
Whatley said the political prosecutions of Trump by Democrat district attorneys and Biden's Department of Justice are not working because Trump has taken advantage of every spare moment to inject himself into the news cycle.
"Their trying to take the president off the campaign trail is not going to work because you have a president who can go out from the courtroom, around the corner to a bodega, and generate a news cycle," Whatley said. "He can go to a construction site at 6:30 in the morning and generate a news cycle.
"He can go to New Jersey and have a rally where 107,000 people show up, or he can even have a rally there in the Bronx and absolutely drive the discussion, unlike anybody else that we've ever seen."
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