This archive report was first published on 23 June 2020.
Published on June 23, 2020, a report revealed that the Trump campaign and the R.N.C. paid their top staff members significantly higher salaries than the Biden campaign and the D.N.C. In fact, more than 20 of Mr. Trump's campaign aides and R.N.C. officials were paid higher salaries than Mr. Biden's campaign manager.
Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign's manager, received monthly payments of $47,797 from Parscale Strategy L.L.C., quadruple the amount received by Ms. O'Malley Dillon, the Biden campaign manager.
The highest-paid officials were the party leaders, with Ronna McDaniel, the R.N.C. chairwoman, receiving more than $24,000 in May, while Mr. Perez, the D.N.C. chairman, received less than $16,000.
Michael Ahrens, an R.N.C. spokesman, stated, 'A woman in the same position is making more because she is beating her male counterpart in nearly every metric.'
The Trump campaign also spent $470,925 on polling in May, including $98,000 to the firm of John McLaughlin, who wrote a memo criticizing surveys that showed Mr. Trump losing the election.
Meanwhile, the Biden campaign spent only $122,300 on polling, and the D.N.C. listed zero polling expenses.
The Trump campaign and R.N.C. also spent far more on legal fees, $1.55 million to $875,000, than Mr. Biden and the Democrats in May.
However, Mr. Biden's campaign is now holding multimillion-dollar fund-raisers, partly due to the higher contribution limits for the presumptive nominee and the party.
