Posted on 10/20/2024 9:26:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Kamala Harris entered the final full month of the US presidential election campaign vastly outspending Donald Trump, as both candidates put tens of millions of dollars into television ads ahead of the Nov. 5 contest, according to financial disclosures filed on Sunday.
The campaigns are racing the final stretch of an extremely tight presidential contest, with many polls showing the two candidates neck-and-neck, including in battleground states that could determine the winner.
She disclosed to the Federal Election Commission spending of $270 million last month, largely on ads.
Former Republican President Trump's similarly ad-dominated spending totaled $78 million during the month.
Harris' larger bank account is helping her blanket airwaves with television ads in the final days before the election, though it might not deliver victory.
In the 2016 presidential contest, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton despite raising less money than the Democrat.
c - including in September when Harris raised $222 million to Trump's $63 million.
However, Trump's deep-pocketed backers, including billionaire Elon Musk, have put significant resources into groups allied with the former president.
The Make America Great Again Inc. super PAC, one of the largest of Trump's allied groups, received a $25 million contribution in September from conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon, according to a separate filing to the Federal Election Commission.
Mellon, an heir of the Pittsburgh-based Mellon banking family, had already given the super PAC at least $115 million earlier in the year. The super PAC has focused much of its spending on television ads backing Trump.
The Harris campaign told the Federal Election Commission it entered October with $187 million in the bank, compared to $120 million reported by Trump's campaign.
Kamala’s campaign is virtually “excreting” money, and in all directions. You’d think we were talking about the Ukraine!
And yet, her polling numbers are trending in the wrong direction.
They are laundering that money as quickly as possible. One of the greatest grifts of all time.
When I’m “surfing” videos on YouTube I’m deluged with advertising from Kamala’s campaign. On YouTube, you have the option to skip each commercial. The channel being viewed gets paid for each advertisement completely viewed but doesn’t get paid for commercials that are skipped. I skip the Trump commercials to save the campaign money but make a point of never skipping a Kamala or other ‘RAT commercial…. I let them play all the way through to bleed the ‘RATS for every penny I can.
“Wash all of your currencies sparkling clean, with new Blue Cheer!”
“Ukraine” pelf green-washed through the DNC RICO scam that is ActBlue.
Hard to tell about the financial outlays, as both parties are relying heavily on PACs.
as The Beatles sang “Money can’t buy me love”
I keep hearing this, but I believe Trump’s money goes farther and is far more effective.
Why is Harris running ads in the NYC TV market? Curious, isn’t it?
My local Pennsylvania Food Bank sells food to other community Food Banks for $0.10/pound.
The $348,000,000.00 combined total campaign spending could have bought 3.48 BILLION pound of food for the needy.
Yes, successful candidates can leverage public aka taxpayer dollars but this egregious diversion of funds from charity is positively
SINFUL!
My feeling is YouTube ads, movie streaming ads just piss people off.
That Chinese money is not helping.
If you spend a lot of time on YT, as I do, it's well worth paying $13 a month to avoid ads. Plus, you get YT music.
She and her inner circle are probably filling their pockets, because it’s near certainty she’ll lose, and keeping the theft kama-flaged. Reminds me of the plot of The Producer, one of Mel Brooks’ masterpieces.
Worse part is that Deep State is likely using our own money to screw us.
IIRC, it’s THE PRODUCERS.
“Harris campaign spends $270 mn in Sept, surpassing Trump’s outlay of $78 mn” and....?
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