Believe or Not, Kamala Harris is still working to introduce herself to the American people just weeks before Election Day. Her team is supper busy at formulating the strategy to do just that is Brian Fallon, one of Harris’ most trusted aides and the campaign’s senior adviser for communications. He’s a longtime messaging maven for the party, having served as a top aide to Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton and as a co-founder of the legal advocacy group Demand Justice.
According to US media reports, Kamala Harris’ election campaign spent nearly three times as much money as her rival Donald Trump did in August, pressing the Democrat’s financial advantage ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election, according to financial disclosures filed on Friday.
The two campaigns are entering the final stretch of an extremely tight presidential contest. Harris, the U.S. Vice President who launched her campaign in July when President Joe Biden ended his own re-election bid and endorsed her, disclosed to the Federal Election Commission spending of $174 million last month. Former Republican President Trump’s campaign separately reported outlays of $61 million, according Reuters.
While Harris’ financial advantage will help her blanket airwaves with television ads through the election, it might not deliver victory. The two candidates are neck-and-neck in many polls, including in battleground states that could determine the winner. In the 2016 presidential contest, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton despite raising less money than the Democrat.
In August, Harris and Trump each said most of their spending was on ads, with smaller sums paying for rallies, travel and campaign staff salaries. Harris’ campaign also reported making a $75,000 donation to the Detroit Unity Fund, a non-profit that works to increase Black voter turnout in Michigan, a major battleground in this year’s election.
