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Oct. 9, 2024, 7:10 p.m. ET 9 minutes ago
Election Live Updates: Harris Is Said to Have Raised $1 Billion Since Entering Race
No candidate has ever raised so much money so fast. And it’s more than former President Donald J. Trump has announced raising in all of 2024.
Vice President Kamala Harris departing New York on Wednesday.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
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Shane Goldmacher Maggie Haberman and Simon J. Levien
Here’s the latest on the presidential race.
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.
While other presidential candidates, together with their parties, have passed that threshold before, the sheer speed with which Ms. Harris and her affiliated party committees raised the sum is notable. And it’s more than former President Donald J. Trump has announced raising in all of 2024.
The federal reports detailing the fund-raising totals for September are required to be made public later this month.
Ms. Harris, after a series of interviews Tuesday in which she proposed an expansion of Medicare and drank a Miller High Life on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” is off the trail. Mr. Trump has two campaign stops in Pennsylvania, the battleground state that top strategists for both campaigns have circled as the likeliest to tip the election. During an event in Scranton, the hometown of President Biden, he attacked Ms. Harris on energy policy, saying he would tell workers in the state to “frack, frack, frack.” He was scheduled to hold a rally later in Reading.
Both candidates for vice president have events in another swing state: Arizona, where early voting is now underway.
Ms. Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, appeared with Representative Ruben Gallego before Mr. Gallego debates his pro-Trump rival, Kari Lake, in their Senate race. Mr. Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, appealed to voters to cast their ballots early during a rally in Tucson, where Mr. Walz was scheduled for his own rally later. Mr. Vance also took questions at a town-hall event in Mesa, hosted by the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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There are 27 days until Election Day. Here’s what else to know:
- Trump flubs in Maine: Mr. Trump, whose rambling remarks have pushed the issue of age back to the fore, used masculine pronouns to refer to Maine’s governor, Janet Mills, all six times he mentioned her in a call to supporters on Monday. He never referred to her by name.
- A Manhattan rally: Mr. Trump is planning a rally at Madison Square Garden in deep-blue Manhattan, even though a Republican presidential candidate has not won the county in a century and no polls suggest that New York is in play.
- Ads link abortion and guns: New ad campaigns in two key Senate races and other down-ballot contests pair firearms restrictions and abortion as public health issues. Everytown for Gun Safety, one of the biggest national organizations pushing for tighter restrictions on firearms, is spending $4 million on ads against the Republican Senate candidates in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and $9 million on state legislative races.
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