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.
I don’t understand that I can only give $2000 dollars to a single candidate but the rich can give millions. How is this possible?
It’s going to take more than money to polish the ‘tard that is Kamala.
Super PACs..................
They want people to think the Fake Product Harris is real ,LOL
It’s a big club. And you ain’t in it.
Most of that money isn’t from donations to Harris but from the transfer of the Biden campaign funds to her.
And I bet, as with Obama, the FEC is doing NOTHING about investigating the source of those donations. If that money could speak it would have to have a translator.
Many habitual Democrat voters will tell you their party stands up for the “little guy.” Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Democrat Party is the party of the rich and ultra-rich. They never have a shortage of money to campaign with.
But the Republican party is full of rich, greedy, corporate elites that want to be dictators! (Look up and scream at sky)
“Base load affected facilities that follow the CCS pathway must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2, using CCS, by 2035”
“Baseload affected facilities that follow the low-GHG hydrogen pathway must meet a second phase standard based on co-firing 30% low-GHG hydrogen by volume by 2032 and a third phase standard based on cofiring 96% by volume low-GHG hydrogen by 2038”
“must”
Imagine what your future electric bills would look like under Kamala and her successors.
Vote for Trump and a Republican Congress to make sure America has a bright future.
“They never have a shortage of money to campaign with.”
I noticed when Obama television adds outnumbered Romney adds by about 9 to 1. I don’t think that has ever gone away.
Affordable cars run on gasoline.
Trump will keep the gasoline pumps working so you can keep working.
The Democrat Party claims to be the party of the POOR and DISAFFECTED.
If you have a political party whose power stems from POOR and DISAFFECTED people, you are going to make damn sure YOU NEVER RUN OUT OF POOR AND DISAFFECTED PEOPLE......
Thanks, George Carlin.
didn’t 2016 show how Hillary spent so much more than Trump yet she came up loser even with some cheat factor in her favor?
Trump’s people need to talk to gas stations to put up Trump “I’ll fight to keep gas prices down” stickers on every pump.
Trump’s people need to talk to electric utilities to place Trump “I’ll fight to keep electricity prices reasonable” slips in every utility bill mailing and pay for the cost of insertion. An alternative is postcards with the same message to all voter households.
Republican candidates for Congress might follow the gas station and utility paths to victory too.
President Hillary really benefited by her fundraising lead also
Also money laundering through ActBlue.
“Kamala Harris raised an unprecedented haul of about $500 million in the first month of her candidacy”
Wall Street tycoons, hedge fund managers, social media kingpins, lefty corporate CEOs, and the Hollyweird set are throwing money at her to buy the election. Then there is the free, in-kind donations of fawning news coverage by the leftstream media. And I suppose we’ll never know how much foreign money will be given to the Commie-la/Tampon Tim campaign.
Lord, help us to overcome all the evil we face as a country.
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