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Sat Oct 5, 2024, 03:16 PM Oct 5

Harris Is Running a Much Bigger Campaign [View all]

Harris Is Running a Much Bigger Campaign

October 5, 2024 at 7:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 71 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/05/harris-is-running-a-much-bigger-campaign/

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Washington Post: “Harris is running a campaign about three times the size of Trump’s operation, according to recent spending reports. She has placed $263 million in ads between the end of the Democratic convention and Oct. 4, nearly 2½ times as much as the $109 million spent by Trump.”

“She boasts more staff, more volunteers, a larger surrogate operation, more digital advertising, a more sophisticated smartphone-based organizing program and extra money for extraneous bells and whistles typically reserved for corporate product launches and professional sports championships. A Harris drone light show recently flew over Philadelphia. Her rally attendees often get light-up pop-concert bracelets. There are even plans in the works for a late October infomercial to air on swing-state broadcast networks.”

“The scale of her financial advantage is larger than anything Trump faced in his two previous races for the White House. When combining campaign and national party spending, Harris is further ahead of Trump than Hillary Clinton at this point in 2016, Joe Biden at this point in 2020, or Barack Obama was ahead of his Republican opponents in his two races for the White House.”

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