Trump campaign says it set a new online fundraising record after the debate

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump.
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The Trump campaign seems to be calling Thursday's debate a win, at least as far as fundraising is concerned.

In a Friday morning press release following the final presidential debate, Trump's campaign deemed an unspecified time surrounding the debate "the re-election effort's largest digital fundraising day ever." It and the Republican National Committee's combined fundraising arm brought in $26 million during that time, propelling the Trump campaign to mark October its "largest online fundraising month ever," the release said. Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien told reporters on a call that it was the best fundraising day of both this and the 2016 Trump campaign.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.