Harris Is Running a Much Bigger Campaign

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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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[J_William_Ryan]

1. "Harris is running a campaign about three times the size of Trump's operation..."

Yet Vice President Harris is running just a few points ahead of Trump in most polls.

Glad to see she’s doing the hard work needed to win, but there’s still something seriously wrong with much of this country – how much we’ll find out next month.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. This doesn't take into account Republican dark money and PACs

Last I heard, Republicans were still outspending Dems in dark money.

The good news is, Harris has a better ground game, with or without dark money.

[Jersey Devil]

3. We should start to see how big the campaign is as GOTV ramps up

The numbers for mail in ballot requests and returns, phone banking, post cards, canvassing, etc.

[Aristus]

4. Well, finding competent campaign volunteers among the dentally-challenged, inbred mental defectives who support Trump

has got to be a tall order.

[Jack Valentino]

6. They are pretty good at attending rallies (or used to be),

and they are big-time keyboard internet warriors---
you know, stuff that doesn't take them too far away from their couches....

[Aristus]

7. Yeah, you won't get door-to-door volunteers out of that lot.

[LastDemocratInSC]

8. There is a well-known statistical law about this.

As a person's tattoo-to-tooth ratio approaches 1:1 the probability that the person is MAGA increases exponentially.

[Jack Valentino]

5. Here in Michigan I am seeing a LOT of pro-Kamala ads!

The Trump ads are very few and far between, both from his campaign and any pro-Trump pac groups.... on the TV stations in Lansing.

Also, lots of Kamala ads have been running on my favorite FM radio station-- which has a format of 60s, 70s and 80s rock-- which must be listened to by a lot of boomers! The same station was playing inside the 'smoke shop' today when I went in, but the employees there are younger than me by probably 20 years...


A few weeks back, there were some anti-Kamala ads running, trying to make hay out of some criminal whom she didn't choose to prosecute when she was CA-AG, or some such rot... but I didn't see that one very many times, either.