Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee will share nearly $25 million to support down-ballot Democratic candidates in state and federal races this year.
The funds include $10 million transfers to both the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as well as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which are leading the efforts to regain and increase Democratic majorities next January in the House and Senate respectively.
The Harris campaign can kick down such a significant amount thanks to record fundraising this summer. Aside from inheriting President Joe Biden's war chest when he stepped aside in late July, the Vice President has raised just over half a billion dollars, shattering records and vastly outpacing the Trump/Vance campaign.
The campaign announced in mid-August a $370 million push in television and digital advertising starting after Labor Day.
“If we want a future where every American’s rights are protected, not taken away; where the middle class is strengthened, not hollowed out; and a country where our democracy is preserved, not ripped apart, every race this November matters,” Harris/Walz campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement Tuesday. “The Vice President believes that this race is about mobilizing the entire country, in races at every level, to fight for our freedoms and our economic opportunity.”
O’Malley Dillon also announced Sunday that the campaign raised $540 million in six weeks, leaving the Harris operation with more than 2,000 staff and 312 offices in the battleground states in partnership with the Democratic National Committee, a far bigger footprint than the Trump campaign, which has put less emphasis on field organizing.