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Yesterday, we noted a couple of things about the presidential campaigns' fundraising: (1) The Trump campaign's August haul was $130 million, and (2) the Harris campaign has enough money that it's begun passing the bucks onto other Democratic entities.
Late yesterday, the Harris-Walz campaign announced its actual take, and boy howdy is it a giant pile of lucre. They brought in... $361 million. That's absolutely mind-blowing. It's nearly triple Trump's take. It's more than $10 million a day. And since Harris replaced Joe Biden, she's raised a total of $651 million, and has over $400 million in the bank. That's about $100 million more than Trump.
As we have written many, many times, it's neither easy nor cheap to translate money into votes. However, donations are a fairly decent proxy for enthusiasm, and clearly there's a lot of it for Harris-Walz. In fact, it's somewhat difficult to reconcile the neck-and-neck polls with the definitely-not-neck-and-neck fundraising. Plus, keep reading. (Z)