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Harris entered August with more money than Trump, and managed to raise more than she spent over the month. Trump’s campaign, by contrast, spent more than it raised despite far fewer expenses. Her campaign reported taking in $190 million; his, just shy of $45 million.

The vice president’s campaign outspent Trump $174 million to $61 million in August. But Harris’ preexisting cash advantage and superior fundraising mean that she ended the month with $235 million, $100 million more than Trump.

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Trump is also relying heavily on outside groups, including for campaign activities that most campaigns have traditionally conducted in-house, such as canvassing.

He benefited from more outside spending on his behalf in August than Harris did — $163 million to $104 million, according to FEC independent expenditure filings.

One pro-Trump super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., reported $25 million newly raised in August, including $10 million from Wisconsin billionaire Diane Hendricks and $5 million from Paul Singer, a major GOP donor who was once critical of Trump. Several other groups that reported major spending on Trump’s behalf in August, including the Elon Musk-linked America PAC, don’t report their donors until October.

Two pro-Harris super PACs, FF PAC and American Bridge, respectively reported $36 million and $21 million raised in August. Much of that money came funneled through nonprofits, so the actual donors behind that money are not known. The largest individual donations to the groups included $3 million from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz to FF PAC and $2.5 million from longtime Democratic donor Deborah Simon to American Bridge.

So lots of numbers and a bit hard to track it in this article they way they reference, they need a table. An amazing amount of money for monthly numbers, even this late in the campaign.

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[–] APassenger@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope you're right. I want an indisputable result. Multiple states with large enough margins there's no way to even sound sane disputing the result.

I know he already doesn't sound sane and he'll dispute any loss. I want his dispute to look profoundly silly so even his marginal followers have to go, "wait, no..."

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unfortunately, I think the likelihood of that happening is extremely small. Remember Biden won the popular vote by almost 5% or nearly 7 million votes.

In the electoral college, the thing that matters, it was a narrow ~44,000 votes that ended up being the difference better winning and not winning.

So, think about that. If Harris wins the popular vote by, say, 6%!! it is possible she'll still barely win--or even lose.