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Vice President Kamala Harris entered the ultimate stretch of the 2024 race for the White Home with a big fundraising benefit over former President Trump, new federal filings present.
Harris hauled in practically $190 million in fundraising for her 2024 marketing campaign in August, greater than quadrupling the $44.5 million that Trump’s crew reported bringing into his principal marketing campaign account final month — this in accordance with figures from the Federal Election Fee made public on Friday.
The Harris marketing campaign additionally vastly outspent the Trump marketing campaign final month, because it dished out roughly $174 million. A lot of these expenditures went to creating and operating advertisements, because the marketing campaign aimed to familiarize People with Harris after she changed President Biden on the Democrats’ 2024 ticket two months in the past.
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Bojangles Coliseum, in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)
The Trump marketing campaign, by comparability, listed simply $61 million in expenditures, with a lot of the spending going towards media buys.
However regardless of the Harris spending spree, the vp’s marketing campaign entered September with $235 million cash-on-hand, far forward of the $135 million Trump’s coffers, in accordance with the FEC filings.
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The newest money figures are one other signal of the vp’s surge in fundraising since changing into her occasion’s standard-bearer.
Trump speaks at a rally in Uniondale, New York on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox Information Digital)
Each the Harris and Trump campaigns use a slew of affiliated fundraising committees to haul in money, and people panels file their experiences on a distinct schedule.
The Harris marketing campaign introduced earlier this month that they and their allied committees hauled in $361 million in August — practically triple the $130 million reported raised by the Trump marketing campaign and its aligned committees.
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The vp’s crew additionally touted that Harris hauled in $47 million from practically 600,000 donors within the 24 hours after her first and doubtlessly solely debate with Trump, which passed off earlier this month in Philadelphia.
Vice President Kamala Harris, proper, and former President Donald Trump throughout their presidential debate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Occasions/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
When requested concerning the fundraising deficit, Republican Nationwide Committee chair Michael Whatley advised Fox Information Digital within the debate spin room earlier this month that “the Democrats have a ton of cash. The Democrats at all times have a ton of cash.”
Nonetheless, he emphasised that “we completely have the sources that we have to get our message out to all of the voters that we’re speaking to and really feel very snug that we’re going to have the ability to see this marketing campaign by means of and we’re going to win on November 5.”
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Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter primarily based in New Hampshire.
