Vice President Kamala Harris has raised more than $1 billion in less than three months as a presidential candidate, according to three people with knowledge of her fund-raising haul, a remarkable sum of money that has remade the race against former President Donald J. Trump.
The $1 billion haul, which encompasses money raised for her campaign and affiliated party committees, including the Democratic National Committee, is being spent on a wave of television and digital advertising and an expansive operation of offices and staff in the seven battleground states and beyond. The historic sum does not include money donated to allied super PACs.
The Harris campaign declined to comment. The campaign has yet to announce how much it raised in September, partly of 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 federal reports detailing the fund-raising totals for September are required to be made public later this month.
The $1 billion threshold is more than Mr. Trump has announced raising in all of 2024. He has raised around $853 million this calendar year in concert with the party, according to a tally of his campaign’s public statements.
Past presidential candidates, including Joseph R. Biden and Mr. Trump four years ago, have raised more than $1 billion together with their parties. It is the sheer speed with which Ms. Harris has reached that mark that is notable.
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.
The sums are so large because both candidates are raising funds into jumbo committees that can collect checks of more than $900,000 by including state parties nationwide and the national party.
Ms. Harris hit the $1 billion mark in less than 80 days, according to the people with knowledge of her haul, who were not authorized to speak publicly about it.
After she replaced President Biden as the de facto Democratic nominee on July 21, the outburst of online donations was organic and enormous. Ms. Harris raised $200 million in her first week — more than Mr. Biden had raised with the party in the last six months of 2023.
In fact, Ms. Harris has raised so much money that, in an unusual move in early September, she directed her joint accounts with the party to send $25 million to other party committees focused on down-ballot races for the House, Senate, governor and event state Legislatures.
Much of the funds have come from online contributors.
In the 80 full days since she declared her candidacy, the Democratic donation platform ActBlue has processed about $1.5 billion in contributions to Democratic candidates and causes, compared to $587 million ActBlue had received in the preceding 81 days, according to the site’s online tracker.
Ms. Harris’s fund-raising has been led by the same team that had been previously raising money for Mr. Biden.
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