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The Full Monty

Sometimes You Have To Bare All

Simon Beaufoy's award winning play based on the Fox Searchlight Pictures motion picture

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The Full Monty

Closed October 21, 2023

Celebrating 25 years of The Full Monty!

Why See The Full Monty?

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The play that bares it all

Based on the hit Brit-flick, The Full Monty follows a group of unemployed men who decide to try their hand at something very different to pay the bills. Adapted from his screenplay, Simon Beaufoy's play celebrates the 25th anniversary of the film premiere, taking us back to where it all began. Featuring a raft of 90s hits and a story full of humour and heart, The Full Monty only gains relevance in our tough times.

What is the story? Stuck waiting to cash their dole with no job prospects in sight, two pals, Jerry and Dave are struck with inspiration from an unlikely source; their own wives' excitement at a local Chippendales engagement. Figuring they might be able to create their own, even racier version, they set about gathering a dance troupe with hilarious results.

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Opening night: 17 October 2023

This show is suitable for mature audiences

You may be required to wear a mask during this performance. Please contact the venue directly for more information.

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Danny Hatchard as Gaz Jake Quickenden as Guy Bill Ward as Gerald Neil Hurst as Dave Ben Onwukwe as Horse Nicholas Prasad as Lomper

Oliver Joseph Brooke, Katy Dean, Laura Matthews, Danny Mellor, Adam Porter Smith, Suzanne Procter, Alice Schofield and Leyon Stolz-Hunter

Directed by Michael Gyngell Choreography and Intimacy Co-ordination by Ian West Set and Costume Design by Jasmine Swann Lighting Design by Andrew Exeter  Sound Design by Chris Whybrow

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Review: The Full Monty

Wed 18 Oct 2023  @ 12:55pm Sally Langton Things to do

Ready to bear all? Well the Grand Opera House is – as the cast of The Full Monty take to the York stage for one week only!

Simon Beaufoy offers a faithful adaptation of the 1997 BAFTA award-winning film celebrating its 25th anniversary – and it’s a party you don’t want to miss.

The Full Monty is at Grand Opera House York from Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 October .

The story follows an unlikely group of men on their journey to be Sheffield’s answer to The Chippendales, however other than the fact they are both planning to strip, the comparisons end there.

The lovable Gaz (Danny Hatchard), the group’s ringleader and instigator takes them on the rollercoaster journey as he uses this one night only event as the solution to financially supporting his son Nathan (Theo Hills) and remaining in his life. Those that join him on this adventure have their own plethora of problems that arise from broken relationships, mental health and lack of self-confidence to their shared hatred for life on the unemployment line.

Yet despite all of this, and the underlying social and political undertones, this really is a laugh out loud comedy to be enjoyed by an extremely wide demographic.

Credit must go to Marc Frankum CDG for his brilliant casting. Each of the men are so uniquely different yet so strong when united together, making their brotherhood something for the audience to delight in. Danny Hatchard’s Gaz was as cheeky as ever and I particularly enjoyed his relationship with Dave (Neil Hurst); I truly believed in their lifelong friendship.

One of the most heartfelt scenes and stand-out acting performances must go to Hurst and his onstage wife Jean (Katy Dean) as they brought sincerity and honesty to the stage – after all there is nothing better than someone accepting you for who you really are, imperfections and all!

After a long wait from an eager crowd Jake Quickenden and his abs were not to be missed when they made their memorable appearance at the end of act one. He was welcomed onto the stage with the loudest of cheers and he remained a fan favourite throughout.

Whilst the entire cast were fantastic, it was Nathan (Theo Hills) and Gerald (Bill Ward) who I feel offered the most outstanding performances. Hills played the adorable yet mature Nathan perfectly as despite being a young child, he showed true grit and determination when the others lost focus.

Ward’s portrayal of gnome-loving Bill was phenomenal as he took on the most turbulent storyline of all, from his devastating losses to his growing charisma, you couldn’t help but root for him!

As the safety curtain rose, we were transported back to Sheffield and its post-industrial era with a set consisting of scaffolding, which acted as jigsaw pieces in the story. Whilst I enjoyed its many uses as it transported us from location to location, accompanied by an abundance of well chosen tracks, I did feel that these changes lacked fluidity at times. However this could simply be the challenge of performing it for the first time at a new venue, and it didn’t take away from an otherwise quality production.

In the words of director Michael Gyngell, ‘the production is about more than stripping’ – and whilst that is true and the show carried a gritty social commentary and heavy topics, it also did lead to the most anticipated final 10 minutes of the show and did not disappoint!

Whether you love a dad-bod or you grabbed a ticket for Quickenden’s six-eight-I-lost-count pack, there’s something for everyone at this show and it really is a firm favourite – a show that makes you proud to be British, and more specifically Northern!

Will the men really only leave their hats on? Well there’s only one way to find out! Don’t miss out on The Full Monty at the Grand Opera House York until Saturday 21 October.

Tickets start from £16 and are available here .

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The Full Monty Tour tour

Currently touring until 13 April 2024

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film, Gaz and his mates are down on their luck and feel they have been thrown on the scrap heap, but they are determined to fight back and bare a little more than they ever thought they would have to.

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This fast and funny play is still very much of our time, as again we are hit by a cost of living crisis. Gaz and his mates are down on their luck and feel they have been thrown on the scrap heap, but they are determined to fight back and bare a little more than they ever thought they would have to. As in the 1997 smash hit film, this brand new production is a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs, laughs and heartbreak.

Meet the The Full Monty tour cast!

Making up the opening cast are Danny Hatchard as Gaz, Jake Quickenden as Guy, Bill Ward as Gerald, Neil Hurst as Dave, Ben Onwukwe as Horse and Nicholas Prasad as Lomper.

Joining them will be Oliver Joseph Brooke, Katy Dean, Laura Matthews, Danny Mellor, Adam Porter Smith, Suzanne Procter, Alice Schofield and Leyon Stolz-Hunter .

The Full Monty is directed by Michael Gyngell, choreography and intimacy co-ordination is by Ian West, Set and Costume design is by Jasmine Swann with Lighting design by Andrew Exeter and Sound design by Chris Whybrow. The Casting Director is Marc Frankum.

The Full Monty marks the first co-production and partnership between the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham and Buxton Opera House, which recently became an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation.

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Review: The Full Monty at the Opera House is full of 'humour, heart and Northern soul'

Simon Beaufort's perfectly pitched play based on the 1997 smash-hit film is at The Opera House in Manchester this week

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It's hard to believe that the Academy Award-winning film The Full Monty first hit our screens more than a quarter of a century ago.

The highest grossing film in the UK when it was released, this tale of a group of unemployed steelworkers in Sheffield stripping off for cash may seem nothing more than easy comedy fodder, but it is as much about baring the men's souls as their bodies.

When Gaz (Danny Hatchard of TV's EastEnders fame) and his mates are laid off from their jobs, they need to find a way to make money, and fast. Inspired by popular male strip troupe The Chippendales, who drive their women wild at a local bar, they decide to make their own show.

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But, endearingly undeterred by their combination of imperfect bodies, advanced ages and lack of dance ability, they set out to give the women of Sheffield a more daring show than their smooth American counterparts, by going the fully naked 'Full Monty'.

The story has everything - humour, heart, a perfect pace, plus a huge dollop of determination and Northern soul.

A great story alone however does not a great show make. Fortunately though, all the actors in Simon Beaufort's perfectly pitched play more than step up to the plate.

Danny Hatchard as Gaz plays the cheeky chappie and somewhat feckless dad to a T, with Rowan Poulton playing the part of his beautifully loyal son, Nathan, with a straight-talking, boyish charm.

The dancing is predictably hilarious, highlights including the famous Funky Chicken dance from the ironically named 'Horse' (Ben Onwukwe) and some moves from Bill Ward's Gerald as if he'd just been released from a straitjacket!

Jake Quickenden plays the role of Guy with great verve, interacting with the audience and not to mention providing some much appreciated eye candy.

Adam Porter Smith as the rough and ready bar owner is delightfully bawdy, as are the laddish, crude and rude women, prompting one of the men to predict that: "When women start p****ing like us, it's all over!"

The end of the first act is, let's say, both very athletic and very memorable and has the audience in fits of laughter. The second act is even better.

With its themes of unemployment, money struggles, relationship break-ups, body image, sexuality and suicide - only a true Northern wit could get away with joking about suicide, it sounds as far from a barrel of laughs as you can get. Yet it manages to both touch and tickle you simultaneously.

Then there's the brilliant soundtrack, with iconic songs from Tom Jones, Hot Chocolate and Donna Summer, topped off by some nostalgic nineties tunes.

It's a timeless tale of triumph over adversity, of laughing at our vulnerabilities as humans, and this cast enact it wonderfully. It's simply joyful!

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The Full Monty follows a group of unemployed steelworkers in Buffalo, New York, who decide to create a male strip show to make ends meet. Facing financial struggles and societal expectations, the men embark on this unconventional venture to reclaim their sense of purpose and self-worth. As they confront issues such as body image, friendship, and economic hardship, The Full Monty explores themes of resilience, acceptance, and the power of camaraderie

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Parental Warning: Adult Themes/Content

Musical Type:  Contemporary (2000)

Cast Size:  13+

Genre:  Comedy

Setting:  Present / USA ( New York )

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Music/Lyrics:  David Yazbek

Book:  Terrence McNally

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Licensing:  Music Theatre International➝

Sheet Music:  Musicnotes➝

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Complete cast announced for The Full Monty tour

See who is heading out on tour in the show!

Complete casting has been revealed for the forthcoming tour of  The Full Monty. 

As previously announced, set to lead the production are Danny Hatchard as Gaz, Jake Quickenden as Guy, Bill Ward as Gerald, Neil Hurst as Dave, Ben Onwukwe as Horse and Nicholas Prasad as Lomper.

Joining them will be Oliver Joseph Brooke, Katy Dean, Laura Matthews, Danny Mellor, Adam Porter Smith, Suzanne Procter, Alice Schofield, and Leyon Stolz-Hunter.

The young actors playing the role of Nathan on tour will be Cass Dempsey, Theo Hills, Rowan Poulton and Jack Wisniewski.

The play, written by Simon Beaufoy, will open at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham on September 14, 2023, before visiting Buxton, Coventry, Chester, York, Norwich, Nottingham, Southampton, Bradford, Aylesbury, Cardiff, Blackpool, Liverpool, Belfast, Birmingham, Southend-on-Sea, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Carlisle, Dartford and Leicester.

The piece follows Gaz and friends as they decide to fight back against the cost of living and unemployment by baring it all in a strip show.

It is directed by Michael Gyngell, with choreography and intimacy co-ordination by Ian West. The set and costume design is by Jasmine Swan, with lighting design by Andrew Exeter and sound design by Chris Whybrow.

This production marks the first co-production and partnership between the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham and Buxton Opera House, which recently became an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation. Tickets for the show are on sale below.

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March 26 - may 19, 2024, comedy, musical, pop-rock, a boisterous, pop-rock-musical send-up of gender expectations and stereotypes... that takes it all off..

While spying on their wives at a "Girls' Night Out," a group of unemployed steelworkers sees how much they enjoy watching male strippers. Jealous, out of work and feeling emasculated, the men come up with a bold and unclothed way to make some quick cash. In preparing, they find themselves extremely exposed; not merely physically but emotionally. As they conquer their fears, self-consciousness and prejudices, the men come to discover that they're stronger as a group, and the strength that they find in each other gives them the individual courage to "let it go".

With a mix of razor-sharp humor and pizazz, this heartwarming, upbeat comedy is filled with honest affection, engaging melodies and the most highly anticipated closing number of any show.  

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"One of the best shows ever! Hilariously funny ! Great acting and singing by the whole cast. Highly recommend it!"

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"It was very well done and very funny. Well, I thought so. My husband not so much. I almost felt bad for him but I was too busy laughing!"

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"Wonderful show! So many laughs as well as touching moments. Such a talented cast, musicians and stage directors. Highly recommend!"

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"A spectacular FULL MONTY production! So entertaining and hilarious, all the while balanced with real world issues of hyped masculinity and sexist views still prevalent in the 21st Century. We loved the cast, and as season ticket holders, so looking forward to another sensational season of love in 2024-2025!"

"Absolutely fantastic show! Thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Laughed and laughed and left the theater smiling. A great night out!"

"I have been attending productions at Neptune for decades now and I can say that this production of The Full Monty has been one of my absolute favourites!"

Please note: the show contains fog and strobe. The musical  The Full Monty is set in the 1990's and follows a group of blue-collar steel workers. Contains strong language, adult themes, attempted suicide and dark humour regarding suicide, and brief nudity. 

Book by Terrance McNally  |  Music by David Yazbeck

Based on the motion picture, released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, written by Simon Beaufoy, produced by Uberto Pasolini and directed by Peter Cattaneoe.

Originally produced for broadway by fox searchlight pictures, lindsay law and thomas hall world premeire at the globe theatres, san diego, ca, orchestrations by harold wheeler vocal and incidental music arrangements by ted sperling dance music by zane mark presented through special arrangement with  music theatre international (mti). all authorized performance materials are also supplied by mti.  www.mtishows.com.

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“It’s easy to let our emotions get the better of us when we find out our favorite artist is going to be performing live, but it’s important not to let those feelings cloud our judgement when trying to get hold of tickets,” Ziegler added.

For those that still want to take a risk of buying second-hand, “if you’re being asked to pay by bank transfer, particularly from a seller you’ve found on social media, that should immediately set alarm bells ringing,” Ziegler warned.

It’s been a “Cruel Summer” for Swifties in other parts of the world as well — including 20-year-old Australian fan Grace, who told a local radio station late last year that she lost over $775 after seeing a “friend of a friend” selling four of the highly coveted tickets on Facebook.

“I messaged them and they sent a screenshot of the email confirmation of having bought these tickets. It had their name in it, it had the section of the tickets, it had four tickets,” she explained.

“None of my alarm bells were raised because that all looked above board to me.”

But in reality, it wasn’t her friend on the other side of the message at all, but rather a scammer who hacked into the Facebook account.

Fearing the worst, Grace phoned up her friend and learned she wasn’t the only victim.

Yin, like Grace, took to Facebook to find a ticket being sold second-hand, forking over about $388 to a seller she thought was selling legitimate tickets before being blocked.

And fellow Australian Swiftie named Nick was  yet another fan who was scammed  by a hacker masquerading as a Facebook friend.

After he made contact,  the scammer offered various tickets  and even asked Nick how his family was doing, feigning a personal connection.

Nick lost $388 to the scam after he transferred the funds and the hacker vanished.

Tickets to Swift’s Eras Tour have been so popular since the concert kicked off in March 2023 that it became the highest-grossing tour of its kind by December, when it raked in more than $1 billion, according to Pollstar’s 2023 year-end charts.

Thank’s to the concert’s blockbuster success, Swift, 34, scored billionaire status.

And it’s not over yet: Swift won’t perform her final Eras Tour concert until December 2024 in Vancouver, Canada, following a stint across Europe and additional US shows in Florida, Louisiana and Indiana.

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He Took His Side Hustle Full-Time After Being Laid Off From Meta in 2023 — Now He Earns About $200,000 a Year: 'Sweet, Sweet Irony' When Scott Goodfriend moved from Los Angeles to New York City, he became "obsessed" with the city's culinary offerings — and saw a business opportunity.

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Key Takeaways

• Goodfriend turned his passion for food tours into a business with some encouragement from his friends.
• The business made about $30,000 a year before Goodfriend was laid off from Meta and went full-time with the venture.
• Goodfriend appreciates being able to "pursue something I love and earn a salary from it."

This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Scott Goodfriend, who was working as an executive producer in New York City when he launched Ultimate Food Tours . Goodfriend coordinates food tours all over New York City, "allowing the participants to experience the city's culinary scene in a whole new light."

When did you start your side hustle , and where did you find the inspiration for it? I moved to New York from Los Angeles in 2011. I always loved traveling and getting lost walking through different cities. When I moved to New York , I was fascinated by the ability to visit anywhere in the world by subway, even neighborhoods that were far away. I researched different restaurants and then started thinking, well, maybe I can eat at a few different places , so I started planning walking routes to different eateries on Google Maps. My friends found out I was doing this and wanted to join.

Eventually, the word spread . My friends and family from out of town started calling me when they came to visit New York. They would tell me about a neighborhood they wanted to explore and ask if I could plan a food tour. I enjoyed the challenge and was happy to do this, and I probably ended up planning 50-100 tours over seven or so years.

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During this entire time, I was a broke freelance TV producer living in the East Village who lived off a fair amount of $1 pizza. I lived close to Chinatown and figured I could probably take a short walk and find something better. I not only found delicious food but also discovered the variety, depth and complexity of Chinese food, which I became obsessed with. I started doing tons of research into the regions, cuisines and history and the Chinese experience on the Lower East Side. I started taking people to Chinatown, and they fell in love with the tour. They told me to do this as a business, and I always poo-pooed the idea, saying I didn't want to build a website or do the marketing (sweet, sweet irony — but more on that later). My friend encouraged me to put my tour on something called Airbnb Experiences. I posted the Chinatown tour on Airbnb in 2019; it got to the top of Airbnb in a short timeframe. Then, Covid-19 hit, which shut my operations down for over a year.

In 2021, I reworked the tour and put it back on Airbnb , and it got to the top of the "Activities to do in NYC" list. People started asking me what other tours I had, so I wrote more. Eventually, I had to hire people to help run the tours and help with the marketing. It got overwhelming because I was also working my dream job as an augmented reality producer at Meta , but then….

I was part of the Meta layoffs in 2023! I had a decision to make: Go work for another company I really loved and respected, or pursue my entrepreneurial dreams. I decided to pursue Ultimate Food Tours full-time. It's been great, and I've learned so much doing it. I am really glad I made the jump.

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What were some of the biggest challenges you faced while building your side hustle , and how did you navigate them? The biggest challenge while building my business was deciding where to focus and invest my time. You need to be strategic about what parts of the business you invest in and focus on. Since entrepreneurship doesn't have a playbook, the answer is often to go for it, analyze the results, learn from it and do better next time.

How long did it take you to see consistent monthly revenue? How much did the side hustle earn? Ultimate Food Tours evolved tremendously over the last few years, and I'm lucky enough for it to be my full-time job now. Before switching to this as a full-time role, I was making around $30,000 a year. I probably saw consistent revenue between the second and third years. At this time, I was only pursuing Ultimate Food Tours on the weekends, so I was making around several thousand dollars a month.

What does total annual revenue look like now? Currently, I generate around $200,000 a year and have seen the brand grow by about three times year-over-year.

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What do you enjoy most about this side hustle? I love being able to leverage my passions and turn them into business strategies. A great example of this is our content marketing . I come from a family of foodies, and I have always loved history and making videos, so I created a social series called Origin Stories , which tells the history behind New York's famous foods and the best places to eat them. We have three seasons and plan to begin long-form content soon. I am so proud of this because we get to use our platform to drive traffic to local restaurants while simultaneously building our own brand. It's conceptualizing and executing these win-win strategies that really got me excited about running a business.

Being an entrepreneur is a lifestyle! When I first started, I was putting in around 20 hours a week. Since making my side gig my full-time job, I probably work between 50-60 hours a week. Combining my passion with my livelihood allows me the flexibility to pursue something I love and earn a salary from it. I also utilize outside technology that helps streamline my finances and save me time to focus on my business and personal life. What's your advice for others hoping to start successful side hustles of their own? Stay organized ! It's easy to get overwhelmed with various spreadsheets and different numbers flying around. Using an accounting sofware helps free up time on my schedule, allowing me to turn my attention to other areas of the business like marketing and developing additional tours.

Whatever idea you have, whatever your big dream is, take that first step now! Buy that domain name, make that social media post , whatever it is. Just do one small thing a day, and the rest will fall into place. Make it part of your routine, and you'll see a return.

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If you're working a full-time job, try to bite off what you can chew and plan your side hustle schedule around your current commitments. You'll be able to see if it has room to grow, and if you do think you want to make it your full-time thing, start putting things in place that prepare you to make the jump when you feel ready.

Network and talk to other entrepreneurs! The most valuable thing I found was talking to other people who started businesses and food tour companies of their own. They knew what needed to be done and were able to fill in a lot of the gaps in managing my time and gave me the insights needed to successfully launch my own business.

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Election Updates: Democrats retake full control in Michigan; Biden campaigns in Pennsylvania.

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Lee Chatfield, Michigan’s Republican House speaker in 2019 and 2020, is facing 13 criminal charges stemming from his use of political dark money on vacations and luxury goods, the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, a Democrat, said on Tuesday. But investigators did not find enough evidence to pursue charges on a separate sexual assault claim, she said. He has denied all wrongdoing.

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Donald Trump, outside a bodega in Harlem after leaving court, vowed to “make a big play for New York,” a heavily Democratic state, adding that his court schedule meant he could campaign locally. As he left, he shook hands with supporters and posed for photos with a number of New York police officers.

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Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, posted an anti-vaccine message on social media on Tuesday, suggesting that she regretted taking Moderna’s Covid vaccine and saying that it was unsafe and should be recalled. But studies of the vaccine show that serious side effects are rare, and are lower than the risk of complications from a Covid infection.

Donald Trump will make a campaign stop after court today at a bodega in Harlem where in 2022 a clerk fatally stabbed a man who shoved him . Manhattan’s district attorney drew criticism over charging the man, and the charges were eventually dropped. Trump is expected to discuss crime and inflation here.

Nicholas Nehamas

Crowds of well-wishers on the sidewalks greeted President Biden’s motorcade as it drove through Scranton, his hometown, on his way to his childhood home. But down the block from where Biden grew up, a crowd of Gaza protesters are chanting and waving Palestinian flags. A small pro-Biden crowd is countering with “Four more years!”

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Xochitl Gomez, the Marvel actress and "Dancing with the Stars," winner, appeared alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in a video encouraging young people to register to vote. "Turning 18’s scary," Gomez, 17, said to her 2.7 million followers on Instagram. "To celebrate, I am getting all my friends to join me to register to vote."

Even in his hometown, President Biden could not avoid the anger that many Democrats feel over his support for Israel during its war in Gaza. “Biden, Biden, you can’t hide,” a crowd of several dozen people outside a Scranton cultural center chanted in a call and response. “We charge you with genocide.”

President Biden just wrapped up his speech in Scranton on the tax code. He spent much more of it attacking former President Donald J. Trump than talking about his own agenda. He has more campaign events scheduled here in his hometown today.

President Biden spent a great deal of time in this speech attacking former President Donald J. Trump. Before wrapping up with a discussion of the values he learned growing up here in Scranton, Biden took another shot attacking Trump’s economic policies: “He’s coming for your money, your health care and your social security.”

President Biden’s attacks on Donald J. Trump have touched on the former president’s wealthy upbringing, his friendships with billionaires and his tax policy. After several minutes of that, Biden has now moved on to his own vision for the tax code, including raising rates on the very wealthy and corporations and using the money to grow the economy and benefit working families.

In his speech in Scranton, President Biden is arguing that former President Donald J. Trump’s economic policies were a failure. “Trickle down economics failed the middle class,” he said, before taking a shot at Trump’s handling of the pandemic, including Trump's musings about bleach being a cure.

President Biden is giving a speech on the tax code here in Scranton, his hometown. He is talking about the lessons of hard work and fairness that he says he learned growing up here. Former President Donald J. Trump, he says, learned different lessons. “He learned the best way to get rich is to inherit it,” Biden said.

I’m in Scranton, Pa., where President Biden is set to take the stage shortly to deliver a campaign address on the tax code and economic fairness. He is expected to attack Donald Trump, who is standing trial today in Manhattan, as a friend of billionaires, not the middle class.

President Biden is spotlighting his Pennsylvania upbringing in a new digital ad called “Scranton,” which his campaign released on Tuesday in the battleground state ahead of his return to his childhood hometown. It features a cousin and a childhood friend, both of whom seek to cast Biden as a sympathetic ear to the middle-class.

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The Senate Democrats’ official campaign arm announced Tuesday it will commit $79 million to television, digital and radio advertising to defend the party’s narrow majority in a 2024 campaign season that has Democrats defending seats in two solidly Republican states — in Ohio, Sherrod Brown, and in Montana, Jon Tester.

California’s attorney general and secretary of state on Monday sued the city of Huntington Beach near Los Angeles over a voter ID requirement that narrowly passed during a referendum in March. State officials said that the measure, which was placed on the ballot by the Republican-controlled City Council, conflicts with California law and was based on vague statements that falsely sow doubts about election integrity.

Maine will be the 17th state to join an effort to make sure the winner of the national popular vote is elected president. Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, said she would let the bill become law without her signature. States that join the compact agree to award their Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner, but only if states totaling 270 electoral votes sign on. Maine makes 209.

Former President Donald J. Trump returned to a courtroom in lower Manhattan on Tuesday for the second day in his sex scandal cover-up case. He has continued to use social media to attack the judge in the case and the legal system, defying a gag order and upending the norms of conduct.

Two statehouse districts in Michigan are holding special elections today to fill seats vacated by Democrats who were elected to mayorships. The races will determine control of the statehouse, which is currently tied. Both seats are Democratic-leaning, and if the party wins both, they would regain a majority and have full control of the state government. The polls are open until 8 p.m.

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Biden bashes Trump as a pawn of billionaires as he lays out his tax plan.

Biden digs at trump during his pennsylvania hometown visit, in a speech about his tax plan, president biden compared scranton, pa., to trump’s mar-a-lago to highlight the different economic and social values between america’s middle class and its wealthy..

We’re not asking anything as unusual. Under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny. I hope you’re all able to make $400,000. I never did. You know, I have to say, if Trump’s stock in Truth Social — his company — drops any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his. [laughter] No billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, a nurse, a sanitation worker. Folks, where we come from matters. When I look at the economy, I don’t see it through the eyes of Mar-a-Lago. I see it through the eyes of Scranton. And that’s not hyperbole, that’s a fact. Donald Trump looks at the world differently than you and me. He wakes up in the morning in Mar-a-Lago thinking about himself. How he can help his billionaire friends gain power and control, and force their extreme agenda on the rest of us.

President Biden delivered a flurry of attacks on former President Donald J. Trump during a Tuesday speech in Pennsylvania about taxes and economic policy, painting his Republican rival as a puppet of plutocrats who had ignored the working class.

Visiting his hometown, Scranton, in a top battleground state that he has visited more often than any other, Mr. Biden laid out his vision for a fairer tax code, including raising rates on the wealthy and corporations and using the money to expand the economy and help working families.

But in a speech that signaled the Biden campaign’s intention to make the 2024 election a referendum on his polarizing Republican opponent, the president returned again and again to Mr. Trump. His jabs at his predecessor took aim at the former president’s wealthy upbringing, his friendships with billionaires and his 2017 tax cuts that disproportionately benefited America’s upper crust .

“Donald Trump looks at the world differently than you and me,” Mr. Biden told a crowd of more than a hundred supporters at a cultural center in Scranton. “He wakes up in the morning at Mar-a-Lago thinking about himself. How he can help his billionaire friends gain power and control, and force their extreme agenda on the rest of us.”

Aiming for a clear contrast, Mr. Biden laid out his proposals: Expanding the child tax credit. Providing a $10,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers. Raising the minimum tax rate for billionaires and corporations.

“We know the best way to build an economy is from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down,” Mr. Biden said. “Because when you do that, the poor have a ladder up and the middle class does well and the wealthy still do very well. We all do well.”

Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, disputed that Mr. Biden’s plan would benefit Americans.

“President Trump proudly passed the largest tax CUTS in history,” she said in a statement. “Joe Biden is proposing the largest tax HIKE ever.”

Throughout his speech, Mr. Biden wove in criticism of Mr. Trump — including a needling joke about the falling shares in the former president’s social media company.

“If Trump’s stock in Truth Social — his company — drops any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his,” Mr. Biden said.

The president’s speech kicked off a three-day swing through Pennsylvania, with appearances scheduled in Pittsburgh on Wednesday and Philadelphia on Thursday. The trip came as Mr. Trump appeared in court in Manhattan for the second straight day as his first criminal trial begins — a striking split screen welcomed by the Biden campaign.

Since Mr. Biden delivered his State of the Union address last month, his campaign has shifted into general election mode, after a far quieter start to the year. In recent weeks, he has visited every major battleground state. His campaign has opened more than 100 field offices around the nation in coordination with state Democratic parties, spent $30 million in an advertising blitz and built a significant fund-raising advantage over Mr. Trump. An Arizona court decision that upheld a near-total abortion ban dating to 1864 has also energized Democrats .

As those efforts have taken place, Mr. Biden’s depressed poll numbers have improved, with a survey this month by The New York Times and Siena College finding that he had nearly erased Mr. Trump’s lead nationwide. The president had trailed Mr. Trump by five percentage points in the previous survey. Much of Mr. Biden’s recovery came from his improved standing among traditional Democratic voters, a signal that his campaign’s messaging efforts may be having an effect.

Still, Mr. Biden faces an uphill battle in convincing Americans that he is a better steward of the nation’s economy than Mr. Trump. In the latest Times/Siena poll, 64 percent of voters said they approved of how Mr. Trump had handled the economy while in office. Only 34 percent said the same of Mr. Biden, the poll found.

The tax cuts that Mr. Trump signed into law in 2017 have proved unpopular with voters. And while they increased investment in the U.S. economy and delivered a modest pay bump for workers, they fell short of Republican promises and are adding greatly to the national debt, one academic study found. Many parts of those tax cuts are set to expire next year.

Mr. Biden pledged in his speech that under his plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 would see their taxes go up.

“I hope you’re able to make $400,000,” he told the crowd. “I never did.”

As Mr. Biden spoke, Mr. Trump was seated in a Manhattan courtroom roughly two hours away, watching the selection of the first jurors in his trial. Mr. Biden has generally refrained from mentioning the charges Mr. Trump faces in four criminal cases, but his campaign did troll the former president on social media for appearing to fall asleep during proceedings on Monday.

Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, did not answer when asked if Mr. Biden was watching the Trump trial or being briefed on it.

“His focus is on the American people,” she said during a briefing with reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Scranton.

But even in his hometown, Mr. Biden could not avoid the anger that many Democrats feel over his support for Israel during its war in Gaza. As Mr. Biden walked up the steps of his childhood home, a crowd of protesters down the block waved Palestinian flags and chanted “Genocide Joe has got to go” through a loudspeaker.

Mr. Biden is set to speak on Wednesday at the headquarters of the United Steelworkers union in Pittsburgh before visiting Philadelphia on Thursday. He narrowly defeated Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania in 2020, and winning the state is crucial to his re-election strategy.

Democratic allies of Mr. Biden said they thought his message on economic fairness would resonate in Pennsylvania.

“Scranton versus Fifth Avenue was one of the most successful frames from the 2020 campaign,” said Representative Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, referring to the location of Trump Tower in Manhattan. “You’re going to see more of it in this campaign.”

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Michigan Democrats reclaim full control of Statehouse with special election victories.

Michigan Democrats started 2023 with full control of state government for the first time since the 1980s. They ended the year in a political bind after two House members left to become mayors of suburbs, leaving that chamber with an even partisan split and making it impossible for Democrats to pass bills without Republican support.

On Tuesday, five months after their House majority evaporated, Democrats won two special elections to reclaim those seats and full control at the Michigan Capitol. The Associated Press said the Democrats Mai Xiong, a Macomb County commissioner, and Peter Herzberg, a Westland City Council member, defeated their Republican opponents.

The results of the special elections had never been in great doubt. Both districts, situated in the Detroit area, are liberal strongholds that Democratic candidates had carried by large margins in 2022. But the details of scheduling and running special elections meant a long, slow winter for Democratic lawmakers in Lansing while the House was evenly divided between the two parties. Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer , is a Democrat, and her party has a majority in the State Senate.

Republicans hope the Democrats’ renewed House majority is short-lived. Michigan, long a swing state, is expected to be a pivotal presidential battleground again this year. President Biden is working to rebuild a coalition that helped him win the state in 2020, but early polling has been favorable to former President Donald J. Trump. Republicans see an opening to deliver Michigan for Mr. Trump in November and to win control of the Michigan House, a goal that could be helped by newly redrawn legislative maps in the Detroit area. All 110 Michigan House seats are up for election in November, including the two seats that were contested on Tuesday.

Before losing their House majority last year, Michigan Democrats raced through a list of longstanding policy goals that had been stymied during decades of divided government or Republican control of the state. In the span of several months in 2023, Ms. Whitmer and legislative Democrats enacted new gun laws , codified civil rights for L.G.B.T.Q. people , solidified abortion rights and undid Republican laws that they said weakened labor unions.

Those efforts slowed in November after one House member, Kevin Coleman, was elected mayor of Westland and another, Lori M. Stone, was elected mayor of Warren. Under Michigan law, Mr. Coleman and Ms. Stone had to resign from the Legislature when they became mayor.

Mr. Coleman said in November that some fellow Democrats, including members of Ms. Whitmer’s staff and Speaker of the House Joe Tate, expressed concerns to him about his mayoral run. But none of them, he said, did anything to undermine his campaign for mayor.

Once Ms. Xiong and Mr. Herzberg are sworn in, Democrats will have the numbers to resume their legislative push. With the general election only months away, it is uncertain how aggressively lawmakers will move.

Ms. Xiong, who was elected to the Macomb County Board of Commissioners in 2020, has worked as an interpreter. She is of Hmong descent and said on her campaign website that she immigrated to the United States as a child after being born in a refugee camp in Thailand. Mr. Herzberg, who has a finance background, has been a member of the City Council in Westland, his hometown, since 2016.

Trump leaves his trial to rail against crime and jab at the prosecutor in his case.

In his first campaign stop since his criminal trial in Manhattan began, former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday visited a bodega in Harlem where he made a pointed attack on the district attorney prosecuting him and portrayed himself as tough on crime, a central theme of his 2024 run.

His visit to the store — the site of a case that prompted political controversy for Manhattan’s district attorney when an employee was charged after fatally stabbing a man after a confrontation — made for a striking juxtaposition.

After spending much of the day in a Manhattan courtroom as a criminal defendant, Mr. Trump immediately traveled uptown both to criticize the district attorney, Alvin Bragg, for being too lenient on crime and to play up his “law and order” message.

Mr. Trump has for months tried to draw a distinction between his frequently expressed tough-on-crime stance and the felony charges he faces in four separate cases. Outside the bodega, he again tried to dismiss his charges as political persecution, arguing that Mr. Bragg was too focused on Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign sex scandal cover-up trial and was ignoring crime in the city.

“It’s Alvin Bragg’s fault,” Mr. Trump said. “Alvin Bragg does nothing.”

Though Mr. Trump is prevented by a gag order from attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors in his New York case, the order does not cover Mr. Bragg or the judge overseeing his trial.

Before he arrived at the bodega, his campaign attacked Mr. Bragg over his handling of the 2022 incident, in which Jose Alba, a clerk, was charged with second-degree murder after stabbing a man, Austin Simon, in an altercation.

Mr. Bragg and his office were criticized at the time for charging Mr. Alba, as surveillance video showed Mr. Simon shoving Mr. Alba, raising questions about whether Mr. Alba had acted in self-defense. Prosecutors eventually dropped the case , saying they would be unable to “prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not justified in his use of deadly physical force.”

In a statement, a spokesman for Mr. Bragg’s office said that the Alba case “was resolved nearly two years ago, and the charges were dismissed after a thorough investigation.” On social media, Mr. Bragg’s office pointed to statistics showing large declines in homicides and shootings in Manhattan over the last two years and a more modest decrease in robberies.

At the bodega on Tuesday evening, Mr. Trump briefly met with the store’s owner and Mr. Alba’s lawyer. He also spoke with Francisco Marte, the founder of the Bodega and Small Business Association, which represents bodegas in New York and which has attacked Mr. Bragg over the case.

After their conversation, Mr. Trump repeated criticisms about liberal politicians that have become standard campaign lines, depicting Democratic-run cities as being riddled with crime and attacking their leaders for being overly lax and opposed to law and order.

Before he left, Mr. Trump shook hands and posed for a photo with a group of uniformed New York police officers, an atypical move for many criminal defendants. He often takes photos with police officers at political stops after they have helped guard his motorcade.

And he again repeated his criticism of President Biden’s handling of the surge of migrants of the border, arguing that the crisis was harming people of color because migrants were taking their jobs.

That message resonated with some of his supporters, who had come to catch a glimpse of the former president.

“This is the worst city for all these migrants,” Lesandra Carrion, 47, said. She said that she believed the border had been more secure when Mr. Trump was in office and that she did not believe Mr. Biden “did anything for this country.”

And Mr. Trump’s criminal charges, she said, did not worry her, adding that he would win in 2024.

“He’s going to beat that,” Ms. Carrion said. “It’s all allegations.”

Mr. Trump was greeted by a large crowd when he arrived outside the store, and the surrounding blocks in Harlem were lined with people standing behind police barricades hoping to catch a glimpse.

As might be expected given that Mr. Trump lost overwhelmingly in New York, his former home state, in 2016 and 2020, his reception was not all positive. A group of protesters also arrived to jeer him, shouting, “Dump Trump” and waving signs before his arrival.

Other passers-by cursed in frustration because police barricades stretched for a city block, breaking easy access to sidewalks, their apartments or the store.

Still, despite the mixed response, Mr. Trump promised to “make a big play for New York,” suggesting he would make more campaign stops after his courtroom appearances and could easily campaign locally.

Lacretia McNeil, 40, whose daughter sat on her shoulder while she recorded the appearance, said Mr. Trump’s decision to visit Harlem was a smart effort “to rally up the votes.” Her daughter wondered aloud about the point of visiting a store.

Mr. Trump will be present in the courtroom when his trial is in session, and it is expected to last at least six weeks. But he is expected to hold more events like Tuesday’s bodega stop on evenings after court.

Campaign aides have also explored planning rallies on Wednesdays, when the trial is expected to pause each week, and he will most likely continue to hold rallies on weekends.

Bernard Mokam contributed reporting.

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Emily Cochrane covers the American South and has reported on the redistricting effort in Alabama.

Alabama runoff elections set the field for a newly competitive House district.

Shomari Figures, a Democrat who worked in the Justice Department, will face Caroleene Dobson, a lawyer and Republican political newcomer, this November for the seat in Alabama’s Second Congressional District, according to The Associated Press.

The two candidates won primary runoff elections on Tuesday in the district, which was redrawn after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the state had illegally diluted the power of Black voters.

Now that the district has more Black voters, who historically have largely supported Democrats, political analysts see the race for it as one of the most competitive in the South. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report ranks it as a likely Democratic seat. (The district’s current representative, Barry Moore, is expected to remain in Congress after winning the Republican primary in the neighboring First Congressional District.)

The Second District now stretches across the state, encompassing much of Mobile; Montgomery, the Alabama capital; and several counties in the Black Belt, where rich soil once fueled plantations worked by enslaved people.

In the Republican primary, Ms. Dobson faced Dick Brewbaker, a former state senator. Mr. Brewbaker repeatedly pointed to his experience in the State Legislature, while Ms. Dobson argued that it was time for a newer political voice in Washington.

In the Democratic runoff, Mr. Figures’s opponent was State Representative Anthony Daniels, the House Democratic leader.

Mr. Figures’s family has a long political legacy in Alabama: He is the son of Michael Figures and Vivian Davis Figures, who have both served in the State Senate, with Ms. Davis Figures winning her husband’s seat after his death in 1996. Shomari Figures moved back to Alabama after working in the Justice Department and the Obama administration.

Mr. Daniels does not live in the district — a point of contention in the race, though residency is not a requirement — but grew up there. He argued that his leadership position in the State House had shown that he could deliver for Alabama residents.

The November elections could result in Alabama sending two Black representatives to Washington for the first time in its history if Mr. Figures were to win and if Representative Terri Sewell, the Democrat in the Sixth Congressional District, wins re-election, as analysts widely expect.

Chris Cameron and Kellen Browning

Chris Cameron reported from Washington, and Kellen Browning reported from Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

Kari Lake urges supporters to ‘strap on a Glock’ in preparation for the election.

Kari Lake, a top ally of Donald J. Trump who is running for a Senate seat in Arizona, called on her supporters on Sunday to arm themselves ahead of an “intense” period leading up to the election, urging them to “strap on a Glock,” referring to a brand of firearm.

“The next six months is going to be intense,” Ms. Lake said during a rally in Lake Havasu City. “We’re going to strap on our seatbelt. We’re going to put on our helmet — or your Kari Lake ball cap. We are going to put on the armor of God. And maybe strap on a Glock on the side of us just in case.”

The crowd roared its approval, and she continued, “You can put one here,” gesturing to the side of her hip, “and one in the back or one in the front. Whatever you guys decide. Because we’re not going to be the victims of crime. We’re not going to have our Second Amendment taken away. We’re certainly not going to have our First Amendment taken away by these tyrants.”

When asked about Ms. Lake’s remarks on Tuesday, Alex Nicoll, a representative of the campaign, said that “Kari Lake is clearly talking about the Second Amendment right for Arizonans to defend themselves.”

It is not the first time Ms. Lake has alluded to armed conflict with her and her supporters. Last year, she said: “If you want to get to President Trump, you are going to have go through me, and you are going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me. And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the N.R.A.,” referring to the National Rifle Association. She added, “That’s not a threat — that’s a public service announcement.”

Her voice is just one in a rising chorus of violent, authoritarian or otherwise aggressive political rhetoric from Mr. Trump and his allies. The former president shared a video late last month featuring an image of President Biden, his Democratic rival, hogtied. He has also said that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and described his political opponents last year as “vermin” who needed to be “rooted out.”

And Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, on Monday urged people whose routes were blocked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators to “take matters into your own hands” and confront the offenders, endorsing the use of physical force against peaceful protesters.

Jazmine Ulloa

A wealthy Democratic congressman is among the top self-funders in Senate primary history.

Representative David Trone, a Democrat who apologized for using a racial slur during a recent House committee meeting, has poured nearly $42 million from his personal fortune into his Senate bid in Maryland, according to the latest federal quarter filings, putting him among the top self-funders in Senate primary history.

Mr. Trone, who founded and owns a lucrative wine and liquor retailer alongside his brother, invested $18.5 million of his own money from January to March alone, ending last month with $1 million on hand. He drew only about $216,100 from other donors in that time, according to the filings .

Mr. Trone is seeking to make up ground in his hotly contested Democratic primary against Angela Alsobrooks, the prominent executive of Prince George’s County, and a slate of lesser known candidates. Now in his third term in the House of Representatives, Mr. Trone has picked up endorsements from top House Democrats. But his use of the slur has drawn criticism.

Last month, while praising President Biden’s tax proposals at a congressional budget hearing, Mr. Trone dropped a derogatory term used to caricature Black people. He later apologized, adding that he misspoke and meant to say “bugaboo.” “Regardless of what I meant to say, I shouldn’t have used that language, and I apologize,” he said at the time.

Five Black Democrats in the House then endorsed Ms. Alsobrooks, who is Black, though they made no mention of the slur. She ended the latest quarter with nearly $3.2 million cash on hand, according to federal filings. The primary is on May 14.

The winner is likely to face Larry Hogan, a popular former governor of the state who is seeking the Republican nomination, in what is expected to be a competitive general election . While Maryland has not elected a Republican senator in more than 40 years, it elected Mr. Hogan as governor twice.

In the Democratic Senate primary, Mr. Trone has sought to stake out a position to the left of Ms. Alsobrooks on issues such as addiction and criminal justice, and to emphasize his humble origins growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania and building a fortune as the founder of his company, Total Wine & More. He has pitched his ability to self-fund as a bulwark against the influence of political action committees, lobbyists and corporations.

In a statement, Joe Bowen, his campaign’s communications director, pointed to Mr. Trone’s self-funding as evidence that “he’s prepared to do whatever it takes to beat Larry Hogan in November and protect the Democratic Senate majority.”

Before his Senate run, Mr. Trone spent more than $43 million of his own money on his House races dating back to 2016, when he lost in a neighboring district, and he already had the distinction of being the top self-funder in House history , said Jacob Rubashkin, an analyst with Inside Elections , a nonpartisan newsletter that analyzes congressional races. Mr. Rubashkin said in an interview that Mr. Trone made most of his latest investment last quarter before his misstep at the hearing.

Mr. Rubashkin said Mr. Trone had entered the race with some disadvantages and was facing stiff competition. “He had a lot of ground to make up, and the money was his way of doing that,” Mr. Rubashkin said.

Rebecca Davis O’Brien

Trailing Biden in cash, Trump relies on big donors to try to catch up.

Former President Donald J. Trump leaned heavily on major Republican donors in March as his campaign and the Republican Party sought to close the financial gap separating him from President Biden, new federal filings showed on Monday.

For much of the race, Mr. Trump has relied on small donors — in particular, those giving less than $200 online — to sustain his campaign. Most big donors steered clear.

But in recent weeks, as Mr. Trump finished trouncing his primary opponents and Mr. Biden and the Democrats gathered fund-raising steam, these donors have opened their checkbooks to the former president.

In the last two weeks of March alone, one committee backing Mr. Trump raised nearly $18 million, nearly all from six-figure contributions. Mr. Trump and the Republican Party finished the month with $93 million on hand between all their committees, his campaign has said , having raised more than $65 million in March.

Still, Republicans are lagging behind. In the first three months of the year, Mr. Biden and the Democratic Party together raised more than $187 million, his campaign has said , including $90 million in March, ending the month with $192 million on hand.

Mr. Trump’s campaign has not provided a full account of its first-quarter fund-raising. The two committees that filed on Monday reported raising nearly $90 million combined since January, but that does not include money raised directly by the campaign or the Republican National Committee.

The filings on Monday with the Federal Election Commission were the first detailed look this year at the joint fund-raising committees through which Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden have raised the majority of their money. These committees, some of which can raise more than $800,000 from individual donors in concert with the candidates’ parties, transfer funds to the campaigns themselves and also build out national campaign operations.

(The campaigns and parties themselves have been filing monthly reports, which do not include details on the individual donors.)

Biden Victory Fund, the president’s main joint fund-raising committee with the party reported raising $121.3 million in the first three months of the year.

Top donors included Seth MacFarlane, the creator of “Family Guy”; the billionaire entrepreneur Reid Hoffman; and the lawyer George Conway, a vocal Trump critic who until last year was married to Kellyanne Conway, a top Trump adviser.

The reporting period included Mr. Biden’s March 28 fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall, which campaign aides said brought in $25 million.

Trump 47 Committee Inc. — Mr. Trump’s new joint fund-raising committee with the Republican National Committee — was formally set up with the F.E.C. on Jan. 31. It reported raising $23.6 million in the quarter, including $17.8 million in the second half of March alone, largely from six-figure contributions.

Those gifts included $814,399 dated March 25 from Robert Mercer, the hedge fund billionaire who was a vital supporter of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign but was less engaged with his 2020 run. Mr. Trump had been courting Mr. Mercer and other donors in recent weeks.

Mr. Trump’s joint fund-raising agreement with the R.N.C. directs a portion of the contributions to Trump 47 Committee Inc. to a political action committee that has been paying his costly legal bills. The first $6,600 given goes to Mr. Trump’s campaign, and the next $5,000 goes to his Save America PAC, which last year spent more than $50 million on his legal expenses. The R.N.C. and state parties receive the remaining amount.

Other top-dollar donors to Trump 47 included Roger William Norman, a Nevada real-estate developer who gave nearly half a million dollars last year to a super PAC backing Mr. Trump, and Robert T. Bigelow, the Las Vegas aerospace mogul, who gave $5 million to the Trump super PAC in February.

Jeffrey C. Sprecher, the chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the New York Stock Exchange, also gave more than $800,000, as did his wife, Kelly Loeffler, who briefly served as a Republican senator from Georgia.

Joe Ricketts, the chairman of TD Ameritrade, also gave the maximum amount. Other major donors included Linda McMahon, the former pro-wrestling entrepreneur; Phil Ruffin, the casino magnate; and Woody Johnson, the owner of the New York Jets. All three also gave at least $1 million to the pro-Trump super PAC last year.

Mr. Trump’s Save America joint fund-raising committee — which had served as his main fund-raising vehicle during the primary campaign — raised $65.8 million in the first quarter of 2024, and ended March with $13.7 million on hand.

Reporting from Washington

Under pressure from Trump, Arizona Republicans weigh a response to the state’s 1864 abortion ban.

Facing mounting pressure to strike down a near-total abortion ban revived last week by Arizona’s Supreme Court, Republican state legislators are considering efforts to undermine a planned ballot measure this fall that would enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution, according to a presentation obtained by The New York Times.

The 1864 law that is set to take effect in the coming weeks bans nearly all abortions and mandates prison sentences of two to five years for providing abortion care. The proposed ballot measure on abortion rights, known as the Arizona Abortion Access Act, would enshrine the right to an abortion before viability , or about 24 weeks. Supporters of the measure say they have already gathered enough signatures to put the question on the ballot ahead of a July 3 filing deadline.

Republicans in the Legislature are under tremendous pressure to overturn, or at least amend, the 1864 ban. Former President Donald J. Trump, the national standard-bearer of the Republican Party, directly intervened on Friday, calling on Republican legislators, in a frantically worded post online, to “act immediately” to change the law. A top Trump ally in Arizona who is running for the Senate, Kari Lake, has also called for the overturning of the 1864 law , which she had once praised.

Abortion rights have been a winning message for Democrats since the Supreme Court, with three justices appointed by Mr. Trump, overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. And even though it is an objectively unpopular aspect of his White House legacy, Mr. Trump has repeatedly bragged that he is personally responsible for overturning Roe.

Republicans in Arizona, however, have already resisted efforts to repeal the 160-year-old law and are bracing for the potential for another floor battle on the ban that is looming for the Legislature, which is set to convene on Wednesday. The plans that circulated among Republican legislators suggest the caucus is considering other measures that would turn attention away from the 1864 law.

The presentation to Republican state legislators, written by Linley Wilson, the general counsel for the Republican majority in the Arizona State Legislature, proposed several ways in which the Republican-controlled Legislature could undermine the ballot measure, known as A.A.A., by placing competing constitutional amendments on the ballot that would limit the right to abortion even if the proposed ballot measure succeeded.

The plan, the document said, “Changes narrative — Republicans have a plan!” adding that the plan “puts Democrats in a defensive position to argue against partial birth abortions, discriminatory abortions, and other basic protections.”

One proposal would have the Legislature send to voters two other ballot initiatives that would “conflict with” and “pull votes from” the A.A.A. ballot measure. Ballot measures for a constitutional amendment can be proposed through a petition, as with the A.A.A. ballot measure, or through the State Legislature , and the document suggests that voters could read the Republican ballot measures first on the ballot if they are filed before the A.A.A. ballot measure.

One of the Republican ballot initiatives outlined in the presentation would enact an abortion ban after the fifth week of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest and medical necessity. The other ballot option would propose a ban after the 14th week of pregnancy. The language of the measures would be intentionally written to mislead voters on when exactly an abortion would become illegal, according to the presentation.

The second option, for example, would be known as the “Fifteen Week Reproductive Care and Abortion Act.” But “in reality,” according to the presentation, “It’s a 14-week law disguised as a 15-week law because it would only allow abortion until the beginning of the 15th week.” Similarly, the wording of the five-week abortion ban would make abortion illegal “after the sixth week of pregnancy begins.”

An alternative to those two options would be to put forward a ballot measure that would take effect only if the A.A.A. ballot measure also passes. That plan, known as “conditional enactment,” would insert language in the state Constitution declaring that the right to an abortion in the A.A.A. ballot measure “is not absolute and shall not be interpreted to prevent the Legislature from” regulating abortion in the future. It would also include language used by anti-abortion activists, referring to “the preservation of prenatal life” and “mitigation of fetal pain.”

Ben Toma, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, confirmed the authenticity of the document and said in a statement that it “presents ideas drafted for internal discussion and consideration within the caucus. I’ve publicly stated that we are looking at options to address this subject, and this is simply part of that.”

State Senator Anna Hernandez said in a statement that she and fellow Democrats would continue to push to repeal the 1864 law and that the Republicans’ proposals were “intentionally drafted to confuse voters” with policies “based in arbitrary numbers of weeks that have no factual grounding in science or health care.”

Dawn Penich, a spokeswoman for Arizona for Abortion Access, the liberal coalition organizing the A.A.A. ballot measure, said in a statement that the Republican presentation “shows yet again why Arizonans can’t leave our most basic and personal rights in the hands of politicians.”

Kate Zernike contributed reporting from New York.

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