With 15 days till Election Day in November, polls level to a margin-of-error race for the White Home between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump.
However within the sprint for marketing campaign money – one other key metric in presidential politics – there’s one very clear frontrunner: Harris.
The vp entered the ultimate full month of the marketing campaign with a large monetary benefit over the previous president, in keeping with new federal fundraising filings late Sunday.
The Harris marketing campaign hauled in $221.8 million in September, in keeping with the filings, greater than triple the $63 million introduced in by the Trump marketing campaign final month.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion at Riverside Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin)
Roughly 1 / 4 of the cash raked in by the vp got here throughout celebrity-studded fundraisers in Los Angeles and San Francisco on the finish of final month.
Harris has vastly outraised and outspent Trump since changing President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket three months in the past, and that pattern continued in September. The biggest expense by the Harris marketing campaign was for paid media – principally to run advertisements.
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However the vp nonetheless loved a big cash-on-hand benefit over Trump coming into October. Â
The Harris marketing campaign reported $187 million in its coffers on the finish of September, in comparison with $119 million for the Trump marketing campaign.
Former President Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. (AP Photograph/Matt Rourke)
The fundraising totals reported by the 2 main occasion campaigns do not embody further cash raked in by the 2 nationwide occasion committees, different affiliated organizations – each campaigns use a slew of affiliated fundraising committees to haul in money – or aligned super-PACs supporting Harris and Trump.
The Biden marketing campaign and the Democratic Nationwide Committee loved a fundraising lead over Trump and the Republican Nationwide Committee earlier this yr. However Trump and the RNC topped Biden and the DNC by $331 million to $264 million throughout the second quarter of 2024 fundraising.
Biden loved a quick fundraising surge after his disastrous efficiency in his late June debate with Trump as donors briefly shelled out huge bucks in an indication of assist for the 81-year-old president.
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However Biden’s halting and shaky debate supply additionally immediately fueled questions on his bodily and psychological means to serve one other 4 years within the White Home and spurred a rising refrain of calls from inside his personal occasion for the president to finish his bid for a second time period. The temporary surge in fundraising did not final and, by early July, started to considerably decelerate.Â
Biden bowed out of the 2024 race on July 21, and the occasion shortly consolidated round Harris, who immediately noticed her fundraising soar, spurred by small-dollar donations.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump debate in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Occasions/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
The Harris marketing campaign on Sunday spotlighted its grassroots donors, because it introduced that 95% of its donations previously three months had been underneath $200.
This is not the primary time Trump’s confronted a fundraising deficit. He raised lower than 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in his White Home victory and Biden 4 years in the past in his re-election defeat.
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When requested in regards to the fundraising deficit, Republican Nationwide Committee chair Michael Whatley instructed Fox Information Digital final month that “the Democrats have a ton of cash. The Democrats all the time have a ton of cash.”
Nevertheless, he emphasised that “we completely have the assets that we have to get our message out to all of the voters that we’re speaking to and really feel very comfy that we’re going to have the ability to see this marketing campaign via and we’re going to win on Nov. 5.”
The presidential campaigns later this week will give us one other have a look at their funds – as they’re required on Thursday to file experiences to the Federal Election Fee for his or her fundraising for the primary 16 days of October.
Fundraising, together with polling, is a key metric in marketing campaign politics and a measure of a candidate’s recognition and their marketing campaign’s energy. The cash raised can be utilized to – amongst different issues – rent workers, increase grassroots outreach and get-out-the-vote efforts, pay to provide and run advertisements on TV, radio, digital and mailers, and for candidate journey.
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