Trump raises $56.8M online
Despite departing from office and being barred from the leading social media platforms, former President Donald Trump was the Republican Party’s most dominant fund raiser in the early months of 2021, as committees affiliated with him collected morethan $56 million online, accordingto campaign filings made late Friday.
Mr.Trump raised far moremoney than any other Republican via WinRed, the party’s main processing site for online donations, federal recordsshow, and more than eachof the three main fund raising arms of the Republican Party itself.
Mr.Trump collected $34.3 million through a shared account with the Republican National Committee, which is knownas the Trump Make America Great Again Committee; Mr. Trump’s political action committee is set to receive75% of what went into the shared account, and the party received 25%.
In addition, Mr. Trump raised more than $21 million directly into two new PACs that he controls.
Calif. fire burns more than 240,000 acres
The Dixie Fire surpassed 240,000acres total burned Saturday in remote Northern California as crews braced forhot weather and the threat of thunderstorms throughthe weekend.
The fire — which started in mid-July about 10 miles northeast of Paradise — is the state’s largest this year and now covers 240,795 acres in Butte, Plumas and Tehama counties, according to CalFire. It was about 24% contained as of Saturday morning.
Saturdayafternoon and through Sunday, temperatures ranging into the 90s wer eexpected to wash over the region, along with potential thunderstorms bringing erratic winds and spotty rain.
Census missed data from dorms, prisons
Bythe end of the U.S. head count last year, the Census Bureau had no data for almost a fifth of the nation’s occupied college dorms, nursing homes and prisons, requiring the agency to make eleventh-hour calls to facilities in an effort to collect information or use a last-resort statistical method to fill in gaps.
Residents of 43,000 of the 227,000occupied dorms, prisons, military barracks, homeless shelters, group homes and nursing homes remained uncounted as late as December, according to new documents released recently by the Census Bureau in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by a Republican redistricting advocacy group.
The facilities were among themost difficult places to count people during the census because the pandemic forced colleges to close dorms and send students home, and nursing homes and other facilities restricted access.
Bureau officials are confident that they have since filledin the gaps using a statistical method they consider reliable, though theyacknowledge that the challenge was formidable.