Harris can’t break away from Trump despite fundraising lead – Washington Examiner
The article discusses Vice President Kamala Harris’s significant fundraising advantage over former President Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election. Despite raising a remarkable $176 million in a recent fundraising period, compared to Trump’s $97 million, Harris has struggled to translate this financial edge into a substantial polling lead. The article notes that Trump’s campaign regained strength in the first half of the year, fueled by growing concerns over President Joe Biden’s mental acuity, leading major Democratic donors to withhold donations until Biden’s exit from the race. In the recent month leading up to the election, Harris raised $97 million, significantly outpacing Trump’s $16 million, yet the latter’s overall fundraising, including joint committees, totaled $97 million alongside his PAC’s additional $44 million. Harris has spent heavily, with $166 million compared to Trump’s $99 million, but Democrats remain perplexed as to why such a financial influx has not translated into better polling figures, even as Harris has set record-breaking fundraising paces among U.S. presidential candidates.
Harris can’t break away from Trump despite crushing him in fundraising
Vice President Kamala Harris’s massive fundraising advantage over former President Donald Trump fails to translate to a substantial polling lead.
Trump’s campaign overtook the Democrats in the first half of the year, buoyed by questions over the mental acuity of President Joe Biden. Major Democrats withheld further donations to the Democrats until Biden dropped out. Upon the transition to Harris, donors made up for the lost months of funding with a deluge of cash, out-fundraising Trump by significant margins.
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This pattern has continued in the final month before the election, with Harris raising $97 million in the first half of October, compared to Trump’s $16 million, according to Federal Election Commission filings obtained by Politico.
However, Trump’s funding position has improved significantly, considering his wider operation, including joint fundraising committees. Altogether, his campaign and network raised $97 million, though Harris raised $176 million.
Harris’s outspending matched her advantage, spending $166 million compared to $99 million for Trump.
Elon Musk’s America PAC, which handles much of the Trump campaign’s groundwork, raised another $44 million for Trump. The pro-Harris FF PAC raised $65 million.
Harris raised over $1 billion in just 2 1/2 months, a fundraising pace that shattered the records of all other U.S. presidential candidates.
Democrats have expressed bafflement that the money influx hasn’t given results.
“There’s no reason anyone should raise a billion dollars and be running against a guy like that and be neck-and-neck,” a Democrat close to the Harris campaign who is concerned that Harris isn’t breaking through, especially with men, told the Washington Examiner earlier this month.
“Having more money isn’t everything. Everyone’s on edge,” a Democratic aide said.
Trump has steadily chipped away at the lead Harris gained in the late summer, even overtaking her in polling in all major swing states. This culminated in the final New York Times poll having the two tied nationally, a worrying sign for Harris, who held a three-point edge in the previous poll in early October. The RealClearPolitics average has the two tied nationally at 48.5%.
For comparison, the average at around this point in the razor-thin 2020 election had Biden up by 7.2%, and in 2016, Hillary Clinton up by 3.2% in a race she ultimately lost.
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