Kamala Harris hat seit ihrer Teilnahme an der Präsidentschaftswahl 2024 eine Milliarde US-Dollar gesammelt

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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.

By Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman
Oct. 9, 2024
Updated 2:00 p.m. ET

Vice President Kamala Harris has raised more than $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 of money 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 surpassing that mark in July 2020 after he had been raising funds for his re-election for multiple years.

It is the sheer speed with which Ms. Harris has reached that mark that is notable. No presidential candidate is believed to have ever raised so much money so fast after entering a race. Of course, no one in modern political history has replaced a party’s presumptive nominee in the middle of the general election.

She is expected to easily double the $160 million that Mr. Trump raised in September. She raised $72 million in just three events late last month:$27 million at a single event in New York and then $55 million across two California events.

The sums are so large because both candidates are raising funds into jumbo committees that can collect checks of more than $900,000 by including state parties nationwide and the national party.

Ms. Harris hit the $1 billion mark in less than 80 days, according to the people with knowledge of her haul, who were not authorized to speak publicly about it.

After she replaced President Biden as the de facto Democratic nominee on July 21, the outburst of online donations was organic and enormous. Ms. Harris raised $200 million in her first week — more than Mr. Biden had raised with the party in the last six months of 2023.

In fact, Ms. Harris has raised so much money that, in an unusual move in early September, she directed her joint accounts with the party to send $25 million to other party committees focused on down-ballot races for the House, Senate, governor and event state Legislatures.

Much of the funds have come from online contributors.

In the 80 full days since she declared her candidacy, the Democratic donation platform ActBlue has processed about $1.5 billion in contributions to Democratic candidates and causes, compared to $587 million ActBlue had received in the preceding 81 days, according to the site’s online tracker.

Ms. Harris’s fund-raising has been led by the same team that had been previously raising money for Mr. Biden.

Colleen Coffey and Michael Pratt are her finance co-directors, focusing on raising money from larger donors. Jessica Porter is her grass-roots fund-raising director, who oversees the online operation. Rufus Gifford is the finance chair for the Harris-Walz campaign and Chris Korge is the finance chair for the Harris Victory Fund with the party.

Ms. Harris has supplemented that team with several new fund-raisers with close ties to her, including Stephanie Daily Smith, Stefanie Roumeliotes and Kristin Bertolina Faust, who she named a co-finance chair with Mr. Gifford.

I’m not impressed; these aren’t votes. Let’s show them what the wealth of record-breaking votes looks like

**Vote BLUE and bring a friend or two!**

She’s the first politician I’ve ever donated to. The day Biden dropped out I donated fifty bucks to her. The embroidered Chappell Roan hat restocked a week or so ago, so I bought one for myself and my mom since she’s stoked about her running.

Felt cute, might donate more later 😘

Kamala Harris’s rapid fundraising success shows she’s a strong contender in the 2024 race, but we need to see if this momentum translates into votes—money alone doesn’t win elections.

The majority of Americans clearly want Harris over trump. But, due to the electoral college, it is not that simple.

We have a truly fucked up election system.

One thing I kind of want to say. Even if Harris loses, can we please get behind shorter presidential campaigns?

I’ve been very pleased with the Democratic Party’s approach, most of their messaging and collaboration, it’s not perfect, but at least it’s not perfect for a shorter amount of time that we can maintain interest in, rather than fizzling out half a year in.

Glad she’s doing well and I hope she wins.

But I wish our elections weren’t so expensive. That billion dollars and how ever much Trump has spent could have done a lot of good if used for citizens.

This goes to show you the enthusiasm is in her court! It will translate to votes

Trump is about to get buried by the thing he loves most.

Legit I hope she wins REALLY hope she wins..but good god what a travesty that it takes a BILLION dollars to run a campaign in this country

It’s utterly insane that it takes a BILLION dollars to campaign for presidency. What has this world come to

What an utter waste of resources. For the sake of our country, and democracy itself, I hope I live to see true campaign finance reform in the US.

But, also, happy this candidate is raising the funds needed in our current system.

when you have to raise a billion to have a voice, citizens United needs repealed.