Vice President Kamala Harris‘ fundraising for her presidential campaign has exploded in three months since she entered the race in July after the Democrat Party forced President Joe Biden to drop out.
Harris has raised more than $1 billion — which includes the campaign and a campaign-affiliated joint fundraising committee — since she entered the race.
The eye-popping sum of cash does not include large sums of money that have been donated to Harris-allied super PACs.
While other presidential campaigns have raised over a billion dollars in the past, no candidate has received that amount of money in such a short span of time.
“It’s clear that Harris has done something absolutely unprecedented,” said Sarah Bryner, research director at OpenSecrets.
Harris reportedly hit the $1 billion mark in 80 days.
CNN reported that for the period starting at the beginning of July and ending at the end of September, former President Donald Trump has raised $430 million in a joint effort with the Republican National Committee. Trump has raised more than $850 million for the entire 2024 calendar year.
Trump’s numbers also do not include totals from large super PACs that are backing his campaign.
The former president was already leading President Joe Biden heading into their debate back in late June.
After the debate, in which Biden showed clear signs of serious cognitive decline, poll numbers worsened for Biden to the point where even the Democrats’ allies in the media were conceding that he was going to be blown out by Trump come November.
However, after pressuring Biden out of the race and installing Harris, who has never received a single vote in a presidential primary, as the party’s nominee, things began to shift.
The race has gone from being a blow-out — one in which Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina were no longer being considered swing states — to tight, with margins coming down to low single digits across more than a half dozen states.
The New York Times reported that the dramatic infusion of cash that the Harris campaign has received has “remade the race” as it pours hundreds of millions of dollars into the critical swing states that will determine the winner of the election.
The report noted that Republicans are pouring in large sums as well, including over $100 million in the closing weeks of the campaign.
