The Harris campaign is using some of its blockbuster fundraising — which soared past half a billion dollars around the time of Kamala Harris’ Democratic convention speech last month — to help Democratic campaigns elsewhere on the ballot this year.
Ken Thomas, a journalist with the Wall Street Journal, reported this Tuesday on tens of millions of dollars in transfers from the Harris campaign to a series of Democratic Party organizations working on other categories of elections.
“Just in: The Harris campaign is transferring nearly $25M to help down-ballot races. $10M each to the DSCC & DCCC. $2.5M to the DLCC; $1M each to DGA & DAGA,” Thomas said.
In order, the organizations that he referenced work on races for Senate, the House, state legislatures, governor, and (state) attorney general around the United States. This puts some real force behind the already circulating possibility of booming support for Harris in the presidential race meaning boosts to support for Democrats running in other elections in 2024.
Of particular focus to many is the slate of Senate elections on the ballot this year, including races in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Ohio, and elsewhere. There is also a closely watched race for governor in North Carolina, where Democratic pick Josh Stein, who is currently the state’s attorney general, is facing off against Trump-aligned Republican Mark Robinson, who was the subject of… unflattering reports of antagonistic rhetoric that he’s apparently wielded with regularity.
Polling, though, has shown a slight lead for Stein. The outgoing governor of North Carolina is already a Democrat.
On the Senate front, some polling has also provided promising results to the Democrats, including a consistent lead in Arizona for Democratic nominee and current Congressman Ruben Gallego against Kari Lake, a prominently Trump-aligned Republican who narrowly lost the state’s race for governor in the 2022 midterm elections.
