Kamala Harris Has Raised $1 Billion Since Entering Presidential Race - The New York Times
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Via: jbb • 3 months ago • 15 commentsBy: Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman (nytimes)
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No presidential candidate is believed to have ever raised so much money so fast after entering a race. The campaign has stopped trumpeting its fund-raising totals to keep Democrats from becoming complacent.
Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign event in Redford Township, Mich., last week. Ms. Harris has raised $1 billion in less than three months as a presidential candidate.Credit...Valaurian Waller for The New York Times
By Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman
- Oct. 9, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has raised $1 billion in less than three months as a presidential candidate, according to three people with knowledge of her fund-raising haul, a remarkable sum that has remade the race against former President Donald J. Trump.
The $1 billion haul, which encompasses money raised for her campaign and affiliated party committees, including the Democratic National Committee, is being spent on a wave of television and digital advertising and an expansive operation of offices and staff in the seven battleground states and beyond. The historic sum does not include money donated to allied super PACs.
The Harris campaign declined to comment. The campaign has yet to announce how much it raised in September, partly out of concern that bragging about the gush of donations could diminish donor interest in the race's final weeks, people briefed on the strategy said. The Harris campaign also remains concerned about the ability of billionaire-funded Republican super PACs to impact the race.
The federal reports detailing the fund-raising totals for September are required to be made public later this month.
The $1 billion threshold is more than Mr. Trump has announced raising in all of 2024. He has raised around $853 million this calendar year in concert with the party, according to a tally of his campaign's public statements.
Past presidential candidates, including Joseph R. Biden and Mr. Trump four years ago, have raised more than $1 billion together with their parties. Mr. Trump announced that he had surpassed that mark in July 2020, after he had been raising funds for his re-election for multiple years.
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Okay, okay, the point of that meme was made and made and made, and my concern is that steadily repeating it over and over again might start having the opposite effect of your intention. Besides, isn't it off topic?
With Trump it is all about the Benjamins...
A billion... and pissed it away down to a tie. A little more effort and she can turn it into a loss.
Polls are meaningless, Hillary was supposed to be a landslide victor.
At least a third of the electorate are first time voters with no landlines, hence they aren't polled.
Many people from 18 to 40 simply have cell phones and by federal law they cannot be solicited by most pollsters
without prior approval.
I've was polled in 2020 and this year on my cellphone.
I wouldn't worry. Those terms that you have to click on probably have allowed it.
In one of those "I Agree" terms they had a sentence buried within the pages of mind numbing legalese a term that would get the first person to contact the company a free bottle of fine wine. It took several months for the offer to be responded to.
They literally have to text you first and get you to agree to accept their terms and conditions before they can legally call you.
All cell phone numbers were and still are automatically added to the Do Not Call list established in 2003.
If I remember correctly, that occurred.
How embarrassing for Harris to raise a billion dollars, spend hundreds of millions more than her competition, get billions of dollars of free help from media, and still be losing to the most unpopular candidate in recent American history. Seems like this is something Harris would want to keep quiet.
I guess Harris is proof you can't just buy an election.
The idea that the media is trying to help Harris and hurt Trump is laughable. The opposite is actually the case.
In your lifetime, the media has never tried to help a Republican and hurt a Democrat. Not once. The idea that the media, outside of the explicitly conservative outlets, are trying to help Trump is about as far from reality as a claim can be.
They tried that in 2015. While Morning Joe was propping him up, conservative media did their best to take him down before he won the nomination. It's the voters who lead the media now, not the other way around.
The media has long lost it's position in American culture as an honest broker. It's not 1975 anymore. The MSM has destroyed it credibility this century. In fact, at this point, the more they pile on, the better his fans like him.