Posted on 08/21/2024 4:51:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
Kamala Harris raised an unprecedented haul of about $500 million in the first month of her candidacy, according to a report.
Four sources told Reuters the colossal amount had come in just four weeks since she replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket on July 21. In that time, the vice president has already smashed fundraising records as donors have sought to give her campaign more firepower in a tight race against Donald Trump.
The Harris campaign said it raised $200 million in the first week following Biden’s withdrawal from the race, a dramatic reversal of the party’s fundraising fortunes during the closing stages of Biden’s candidacy. That $200 million figure was also more than the $138.7 million Trump’s campaign said it raised in the entirety of July.
By contrast, Harris’ team said they’d raised $310 million in July—a staggering figure that, according to her campaign, took the total amount raised by Harris and Biden to more than $1 billion. It’s the fastest a presidential campaign has ever hit the 10-figure mark in history, according to the campaign.
Heading into August, the Harris campaign had $377 million on hand—about $50 million more than the $327 million total cash on hand reported by the Trump camp.
Harris has once again seized the fundraising lead for Democrats that the party lost in the wake of Trump’s May conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records relating to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Amid the historic trial that Trump characterized as political persecution, Republican donors inundated the former president with support to the point that Trump wiped out Biden’s longstanding cash advantage.
Harris’ lightning takeover at the top of the Democratic ticket reinvigorated her party’s own donors, with her campaign taking $81 million in the 24 hours after Biden announced his withdrawal from the race on July 21. The Harris campaign said it was the biggest single-day total in American history.
Super PACs backing Trump are nevertheless still receiving strong support. Timothy Mellon, the conservative billionaire heir of the Mellon banking fortune, last month gave another $50 million to the pro-Trump Make America Great Again Inc. He’s given a total of $126.5 million to the PAC since 2022, according to The Washington Post, including $100 million in the last three months alone.
Mellon previously gave $25 million to a super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—the independent candidate who, according to his running mate Nicole Shanahan, is considering ending his campaign to “join forces with Donald Trump.” Trump says he “probably would” consider Kennedy for a Cabinet job, which RFK Jr. has sought in exchange for endorsing the former president.
The post Harris Hits Half-Billion-Dollar Record to Trounce Trump Fundraising appeared first on The Daily Beast.
Payroll fraud is widespread and easy to pull off on the govt payroll.
There are several methodologies used, including
<><>submitting falsified time sheets,
<><>issuing unauthorized paychecks, healthcare, bonuses, benefits and overtime
<><>enrolling fictitious employees in pension plans.
The govt fraudster simply sets up fictitious employees and arranges for them to receive a salary,
benefits, overtime payments, bonuses and pensions, even though they do not perform any duties.
The fraudster then diverts the fraudulent payments into their bank account or that of an accomplice.
You can thank John McCain and Russ Feingold for that.
Our votes don’t mean jacksh*t. It’s all about the money. We’ve got the best government money can buy. A Jamaican Indian Marxist ho is about ready to buy the White Hut using everybody else’s money.
I don’t believe these numbers, unless massive fraud is going on and I will believe. The FEC needs to do an investigation on where this so called money is coming from.
If this were money going into SuperPacs I would understand that but are they satins this money has been raised directly for the campaign coffers? How?
thanks, that was scary
Congress makes the election laws to allow big donors to give millions to Super PACS. I agree, this allows undue influence.
Xi doesn’t want to lose his investment cash appears.
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A Fool and His Money......
...I would, under normal times, totally agree with you...but these are not normal times...yes, you can put lipstick on a pig and it is still a pig, but money walks; bulls**t just talks...the Harris/Walz team is within striking distance of winning in November...it makes me sick but I think this is going to be an uphill battle for Mr. Trump and his team...
All while Democrats are pitching diversity, equality and inclusion.
Obamas net worth……$70,000,000
Clinton’s net worth…..$230,000,000.
Nancy Pelosi…………….$170,000,000.
Joe Biden………………….$10,000,000. (A complete lie, why so little Joe)
Kamala Harris…………. ?
Never worked in the private sector……….DEMS need to ask what they got for their vote other than free abortions and vasectomies?
China and Ukraine laundries working overtime.
There used to be some of then. But Bush is a Democrat now.
yes
The large contributions to Heels Up Harris is laundered NGO money stolen from taxpayers and laundered through charities, PACs and though fake small donations through Act Blue.
Money laundering.
Remember, Gavin Newson “lost” something like 70 billion dollars just in California.
Bingo spot on people were wondering why this program and where did the money do they failed to remember they are dealing with democrats steal launder regather is the deal.
The democrats have always had more bribe money then any party in the world.
People wonder where the money went after billions of our
tax dollars were dumped into failed Biden/Harris “inventions.”
Remember, we are dealing with money-hungry, power-crazed democrats
...... steal, launder, regather, is the deal to get rich and hang on to power.
Amen. Could not have said it better.
Riiiiight.
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