Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris (R) shakes hands with erstwhile President and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump during a statesmanlike statement astatine the National Constitution Center successful Philadelphia connected Sept. 10, 2024.
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Vice President Kamala Harris substantially outraised and outspent erstwhile President Donald Trump successful August, ending the period with much currency to money her last sprint to the November election, according to caller filings from the Federal Election Commission.
The Harris campaign raised implicit $189 cardinal successful August, much than quadruple the $44 cardinal sum that the Trump campaign brought in.
Those figures bespeak fundraising specifically for the candidate's main run accounts and bash not see donations to the different branches of their governmental operations.
The Harris run announced earlier this period a full $361 million August haul from run donations associated with the Democratic National Committee and fundraising committees. That dwarfed the $130 million raised betwixt the Trump run and its associated fundraising committees.
These figures bash not origin successful September donations, including the Harris campaign's $47 million currency bump from astir 600,000 donors successful the 24 hours pursuing the archetypal and perchance lone Harris-Trump debate.
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The caller FEC filings picture a dependable surge of donor enthusiasm for Harris, adjacent arsenic the archetypal hype of Democrats' July campaigner swap tempered. The full Harris governmental cognition raised $310 million successful July aft President Joe Biden ended his candidacy and endorsed her to instrumentality implicit the Democratic ticket.
Harris has besides flipped the donation spread to Democrats' favor, erasing the fundraising pb Trump and Republicans had earlier Biden dropped out.
Since then, the Harris run has been outspending Trump with an advertizing blitz crossed tv and integer platforms, on with on with different run expenses.
Harris and the DNC jointly spent $258 cardinal successful August, good supra the $121 cardinal that Trump and the RNC disbursed, according to FEC filings.
"As we participate the last agelong of this election, we're making definite each hard-earned dollar goes to winning implicit the voters who volition determine this election," Harris run manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said successful a property merchandise earlier this month.
Heading into the last sprint of the statesmanlike race, the Harris squad ended August with $404 million successful currency connected hand, outpacing the $295 million warfare thorax reported by Trump's operation.
The Trump run assured that its donations volition transportation it done the remainder of the race.
"The Trump-Vance run has momentum for the last agelong of the race," Trump run elder advisor Brian Hughes said successful a statement. "These fundraising numbers from August are a reflection of that movement."
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