President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have raised some $5 million since House Democrats moved to launch an impeachment inquiry of the president, a top Trump campaign official said Wednesday.

“In the 24 hours since news of Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiDemocratic senator to party: 'A little message discipline wouldn't kill us' Overnight Health Care: New wave of COVID-19 cases builds in US | Florida to lift all coronavirus restrictions on restaurants, bars | Trump stirs questions with 0 drug coupon plan Overnight Defense: Appeals court revives House lawsuit against military funding for border wall | Dems push for limits on transferring military gear to police | Lawmakers ask for IG probe into Pentagon's use of COVID-19 funds MORE’s impeachment announcement, @realDonaldTrump’s campaign & @GOP have BLOWN OUT fundraising!” Brad Parscale Bradley (Brad) James ParscaleMORE, Trump’s campaign manager, tweeted, adding that donations have come in from all 50 states.

In the 24 hours since news of Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment announcement, @realDonaldTrump’s campaign & @GOP have BLOWN OUT fundraising!



✅$5 Million combined in 24 hrs

✅Donors in all 50 states



Huge groundswell of support leading to Trump landslide in 2020! — Brad Parscale (@parscale) September 25, 2019

The fundraising surge comes less than 24 hours after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that the House would initiate a formal impeachment inquiry centering on Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenFormer Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick Bloomberg rolls out M ad buy to boost Biden in Florida MORE, one of Trump’s chief political rivals. It shows how Republicans have sought to seize on the impeachment push to rile up the president’s political base and rally conservative enthusiasm ahead of 2020.

In a tweet Wednesday, RNC chief of staff Richard Walters said the Trump campaign and the RNC had raised a combined $30 million in the past week alone.

.@TeamTrump and @GOP raised nearly $30M in last week because of Hollywood extremists and the continued witch hunt being led by deranged Dems in the House.



Next to @realDonaldTrump, Democrats are our best fundraisers! Thanks, Nancy! https://t.co/8yUgLAv5US — Richard Walters (@rww_gop) September 25, 2019

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Trump has sought to cast the impeachment inquiry as nothing more than a “witch hunt” and has insisted that nothing about his request to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was inappropriate or nefarious.

A partial record of a July call between Trump and Zelensky released by the White House on Wednesday shows that the American president urged Zelensky to open a corruption investigation after a discussion of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine.

Trump and his allies are betting that his most loyal supporters will not be swayed by the conversation and that the impeachment inquiry will ultimately backfire on Democrats in 2020, when Trump is up for reelection.

So far, more than 200 House Democrats and the chamber’s lone Independent, Rep. Justin Amash Justin AmashRon Paul hospitalized in Texas Internal Democratic poll shows tight race in contest to replace Amash Centrist Democrats 'strongly considering' discharge petition on GOP PPP bill MORE (Mich.), have come out in support of the impeachment inquiry. But Republican lawmakers have remained unmoved by the release of the call record and have rushed to the president’s defense, arguing that nothing in the phone call warrants impeachment.

Democrats argue, however, that the president’s actions mean he used the power of his office to compel a foreign government to investigate one of his political opponents and that such behavior warrants a formal investigation.