<p>Washington: US President Joe Biden's re-election campaign and his Democratic Party allies raised more than $42 million in January and have $130 million cash-on-hand as they prepare for a likely general election contest against Republican Donald Trump.</p><p>The fundraising figures, released by Biden's campaign, were propelled by small-dollar donors giving money online, officials said.</p><p>“January’s fundraising haul – driven by a powerhouse grassroots fundraising program that continues to grow month by month – is an indisputable show of strength to start the election year,” Biden's campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement.</p><p>The fundraising totals include money contributed to the Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee and their related joint-fundraising committees.</p>.Republican lawmakers urge Biden to deactivate campaign TikTok account.<p>Biden is kicking off a fresh fundraising trip to California on Tuesday. He is expected to attend fundraisers in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas before returning to Washington on Thursday.</p><p>Biden's latest cash haul comes as he has shaken up his re-election effort, sending top White House aides Mike Donilon and Jen O’Malley Dillon to his Wilmington, Delaware-based campaign to help oversee strategy and planning amid concerns among Democrats about a rocky start and shaky polling for the incumbent president.</p>.<p>Biden and Trump remain neck-and-neck in the contest for the White House, according to a recent <em>Reuters</em>/Ipsos poll, with the former president getting the support of 37 per cent of respondents and Biden getting backing from 34 per cent.</p><p>The poll was conducted after Special Counsel Robert Hur released a report declining to charge Biden for taking classified documents when he left the vice presidency in 2017 but criticising his memory and mental acuity. </p>
<p>Washington: US President Joe Biden's re-election campaign and his Democratic Party allies raised more than $42 million in January and have $130 million cash-on-hand as they prepare for a likely general election contest against Republican Donald Trump.</p><p>The fundraising figures, released by Biden's campaign, were propelled by small-dollar donors giving money online, officials said.</p><p>“January’s fundraising haul – driven by a powerhouse grassroots fundraising program that continues to grow month by month – is an indisputable show of strength to start the election year,” Biden's campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement.</p><p>The fundraising totals include money contributed to the Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee and their related joint-fundraising committees.</p>.Republican lawmakers urge Biden to deactivate campaign TikTok account.<p>Biden is kicking off a fresh fundraising trip to California on Tuesday. He is expected to attend fundraisers in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas before returning to Washington on Thursday.</p><p>Biden's latest cash haul comes as he has shaken up his re-election effort, sending top White House aides Mike Donilon and Jen O’Malley Dillon to his Wilmington, Delaware-based campaign to help oversee strategy and planning amid concerns among Democrats about a rocky start and shaky polling for the incumbent president.</p>.<p>Biden and Trump remain neck-and-neck in the contest for the White House, according to a recent <em>Reuters</em>/Ipsos poll, with the former president getting the support of 37 per cent of respondents and Biden getting backing from 34 per cent.</p><p>The poll was conducted after Special Counsel Robert Hur released a report declining to charge Biden for taking classified documents when he left the vice presidency in 2017 but criticising his memory and mental acuity. </p>