Harris' cash edge funds advertising blitz as Elon Musk cuts big check to House Republicans, new filings show

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Harris’ cash edge funds advertising blitz as Elon Musk cuts big check to House Republicans, new filings show

By David Wright and Fredreka Schouten, CNN
5 minute read
Published 1:33 AM EDT, Sat September 21, 2024

(CNN) — Kamala Harris entered September – and the closing weeks of the presidential campaign – with significantly more available campaign cash than Donald Trump, new federal filings show, after setting a grassroots fundraising record during her first full month as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Fundraising by the national Democratic committees focused on the battle for Congress also surged – with the party arm working to turn the US House blue collecting more than double the amount raised by its Republican counterpart in August. The House GOP campaign arm, however, reported a six-figure donation from billionaire Elon Musk last month as the party seeks to defend its razor-thin majority in the chamber.

And with Democrats riding a wave of donor enthusiasm, the latest filings with the Federal Election Commission also showed some key outside groups ramping up their activity, while a leading pro-Trump super PAC unleashed a massive wave of independent expenditures to help Republicans close the gap.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/21/politics/fundraising-harris-trump-elon-musk/index.html

[Midnight Writer]

1. "a six-figure donation from...Musk"? So the billionaire what? Threw in a couple hundred thou?

That doesn't sound to me like a very big commitment, or even one that is newsworthy.