Harris Blew Trump’s Fundraising Numbers Out of the Water in July
The former president raised a whopping $138.7 million last month—which is still less than half of what Harris raked in.
Stephen Maturen
Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign on Friday said it raked in a staggering $310 million in July, over twice the haul Donald Trump raised last month.
More than $200 million of the vice president’s July total came in the first week of her candidacy and two-thirds of the overall sum was from first-time donors, according to the campaign. The $310 million boost to Harris is more than double the $138.7 haul Trump achieved in July—the month in which he survived an assassination attempt and officially accepted the Republican nomination.
Harris’ campaign now has $377 million cash on hand, some $50 million more than Trump’s $327 million war chest. The avalanche of donations in July has taken the total raised by Harris and Joe Biden before her to more than $1 billion—the fastest any presidential campaign has crossed the 10-figure threshold in history, the campaign said.
The Harris campaign also claimed July was the “best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history” with 94 percent of its donations being $200 or less.
“This is a history-making haul for a candidate who will make history this November,” Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement. “The tremendous outpouring of support we’ve seen in just a short time makes clear the Harris coalition is mobilized, growing, and ready to put in the work to defeat Trump this November.”
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The astonishing Democratic figures come the day after Trump shared his pride in the total he’d raised in July.
“Spectacular support from Great American Patriots who are donating to our Campaign for President of the United States, and helping out in many other ways,” the former president said in a statement posted on Truth Social. “Much work to be done, but I will always keep fighting for YOU.”
July turned into a significant month for the Trump campaign. The former president survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, accepted the Republican nomination at the convention in Milwaukee, announced a running mate in Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, and found himself running against a new candidate after President Joe Biden suspended his re-election campaign.
However, Trump’s fundraising total for the month still lagged behind the campaign’s peak for this year so far. The former president raked in $141 million in donations in May—including $53 million on the day he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in a New York court.
The Trump campaign did not immediately return a request for comment from The Daily Beast.
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