Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) shakes hands with former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on September 10, 2024.
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Vice President Kamala Harris significantly outspent former President Donald Trump in August, ending the month with more cash to fund her final sprint to the November election, according to new filings from the Federal Election Commission.
THE Harris campaign raised more than $189 million in August, more than four times the $44 million that the Trump campaign brought in.
These figures reflect fundraising specifically for the candidate’s primary campaign accounts and do not include donations to the other branches of their political operations.
The Harris campaign announced the total earlier this month 361 million dollars August extract of campaign donations jointly with the Democratic National Committee and fundraising committees. This regretted it $130 million pooled between the Trump campaign and joint fundraising committees.
Those figures don’t factor in September’s donations, including the Harris campaign’s $47 million cash raise from nearly 600,000 donors in the 24 hours after the first and possibly only Harris-Trump debate.
The Harris campaign on Saturday accepted an invitation from CNN to hold a second debate on Oct. 23, but Trump has so far steadfastly maintained that he will not rematch.
The new FEC filings show a steady wave of donor enthusiasm for Harris, even as the initial hype for the Democratic candidate swap in July has died down. Harris’ entire political enterprise raised $310 million in July after President Joe Biden ended his candidacy and endorsed her to take over the Democratic ticket.
Harris has also flipped a donation gap in favor of Democrats, erasing the fundraising lead that Trump and Republicans held before Biden left.
Since then, the Harris campaign has outspent Trump with an advertising blitz on television and digital platforms, along with other campaign expenses.
Harris and the DNC spent a combined $258 million in August, far more than the $121 million Trump and the RNC disbursed, according to FEC filings.
“As we enter the final stretch of this election, we’re making sure every hard-earned dollar goes to winning over the voters who will decide this election,” Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a press release earlier this year. month.
Heading into the final sprint of the presidential race, Team Harris finished in August 404 million dollars in cash in hand, getting over it 295 million dollars war chest reported by the Trump operation.
Trump’s campaign has assured that her donations will carry it through the rest of the race.
“The Trump-Vance campaign has momentum going into the final stretch of the race,” Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes said in a statement. “These fundraising numbers from August are a reflection of that movement.”
