Kamala Harris Is Raising So Much Money The Campaign Has Stopped Bragging About It

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Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign hasn’t yet disclosed how much money they made during the month of September. But sources with knowledge of the numbers spoke to The New York Times and said September’s haul will put the campaign’s total amount raised over $1 billion.

Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman spoke to three sources inside Harris’s campaign “with knowledge of her fund-raising haul” for their story published on Wednesday. Those sources told the Times that September’s fundraising brought the total amount since Harris entered the race in July into the ten-digit range. This includes money raised by the campaign, affiliated committees, and the Democratic National Committee.

Campaigns are required to disclose their financial reports every month, but the Harris campaign hasn’t announced their September intake yet. As Goldmacher and Haberman reported, there was a reason for that.

While most presidential campaigns like to brag about their big hauls , the Harris campaign reportedly doesn’t want to let her supporters think that they can sit back and enjoy the rest of the ride:

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 most notable part of Harris’s hitting $1 billion is the speed — her campaign hit the milestone in just 80 days. To compare, Trump hit that mark in July 2020 but that was after his re-election effort had been fundraising for several years:

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.

Ms. Harris more than doubled Mr. Trump’s cash haul in both July and August. She raised $361 million in August compared to his $130 million. And her campaign and the former Biden campaign combined to raise $310 million in July compared to $139 million for Mr. Trump.

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.

Harris’s campaign has raised so much money that they’ve redirected funds to down-ballot Democratic candidates in several states.