Whereas the chances have all the time been stacked in opposition to Donald Trump since he first ran for president in 2015, the fundraising efforts of Kamala Harris’s presidential marketing campaign are making issues even tougher.
In line with the newest submitting from the Federal Election Fee, the Harris marketing campaign outraised Trump’s by 4 occasions within the month of August, bringing in $189 million in donations.
CNBC reports:
The Harris marketing campaign raised over $189 million in August, greater than quadruple the $44 million sum that the Trump marketing campaign introduced in.
These figures replicate fundraising particularly for the candidate’s most important marketing campaign accounts and don’t embody donations to the opposite branches of their political operations.
The Harris marketing campaign introduced earlier this month a complete $361 million August haul from marketing campaign donations joint with the Democratic Nationwide Committee and fundraising committees. That dwarfed the $130 million raised between the Trump marketing campaign and its joint fundraising committees.
These figures don’t think about September donations, together with the Harris marketing campaign’s $47 million money bump from almost 600,000 donors within the 24 hours following the primary and presumably solely Harris-Trump debate.
The fundraising haul is partly negated by the fundraising struggles skilled by Joe Biden within the ultimate weeks earlier than he dropped out.
By the top of August, Trump’s complete struggle chest was $295 million, though nonetheless outpaced by Harris’s at $404 million.
“The Trump-Vance marketing campaign has momentum for the ultimate stretch of the race,” Trump marketing campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes mentioned in an announcement. “These fundraising numbers from August are a mirrored image of that motion.”
No matter how a lot cash is raised, the polls nonetheless level to an extremely tight race, with Trump presently holding a slender benefit.
But, with the chance of the election as soon as once more being tainted by widespread voter fraud, the election could nicely come right down to 1000’s and even a whole lot of votes in one of many key swing states.