Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign said it raked in a whopping $310 million in its July fundraising efforts – more than double the amount raised by her Republican rival last month – and has $377 million cash on hand, marking the latest sign of how transformative and energizing the change to the top of the Democratic ticket has been among grassroots and high-dollar supporters.
A majority of that $310 million haul, more than $200 million, was raised in the first week of Harris’ candidacy, the campaign said in a statement, with two-thirds of the fundraising coming from first-time donors to the campaign.
Seriously, campaigns are stupidly expensive.
Which creates a barrier of entry and only the rich can run for office. Most of our early presidents were just average Joe’s running. We will never be able to have just an average middle/lower class person be a candidate.
What on Earth are you talking about? They were all rich landowners. Washington had a giant plantation, Adams was an incredibly successful lawyer, one of the most prominent in the Massachusetts Colony and in high demand, Jefferson was also a plantation owner and even richer than Washington, Madison was also a plantation owner. Monroe was probably the poorest and he still owned slaves and land, and John Quincy Adams was John Adams’ son, so we don’t need to go into that. Shall I keep going?
Believe it or not, though, and I don’t like it any more than you will, Nixon and Reagan both grew up poor.
On paper, I really want the poor Quaker president…