{"id":2346418,"date":"2024-09-26T17:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-concerns-over-harriss-spending-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:28:43","slug":"gop-concerns-over-harriss-spending-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-concerns-over-harriss-spending-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP concerns over Harris&#8217;s spending &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-concerns-over-harriss-spending-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2346418&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican strategists are expressing \u2063concerns\u200c about Vice President Kamala\u200d Harris&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-new-fundraising-figures-tell-us-about-the-2024-gop-presidential-primary-field\/\" title=\"Insights from recent fundraising data on the 2024 GOP primary field\">significant \u2064financial advantage<\/a> over former President Donald Trump\u200b as\u2063 they approach\u200c the election, particularly\u2063 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-state-republicans-lead-democrats-by-six-points-on-generic-ballot\/\" title=\"Poll: State Republicans Lead Democrats by Six Points on Generic Ballot\">crucial battleground state<\/a> of \u200cPennsylvania. In August alone, Harris&#8217;s campaign raised $190 \u200cmillion and spent $174 million, while Trump&#8217;s campaign managed to raise \u2062$45 million and\u200b spend $61 million. This disparity has led to Harris outspending Trump by approximately $5 million per\u200b day. In \u200dterms of ad buys \u200cin Pennsylvania, Harris has allocated nearly $200 \u200dmillion compared \u200cto Trump&#8217;s \u2064$78 million, showcasing a\u2063 decisive edge in campaign financing.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 GOP&#8217;s diminished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-pro-lifers-dont-get-back-on-offense-theyll-lose-all-their-dobbs-momentum\/\" title=\"Pro-Lifers must regain momentum or risk losing Dobbs support.\">grassroots operations<\/a>, following a leadership change, have allowed Harris to gain a stronger foothold in on-the-ground campaigning, where her team employed over\u200b 1,200 staff members compared to Trump&#8217;s 320. Despite having \u2062greater \u200cspending power in direct ad buys, Trump still benefits \u200bfrom significant \u2064backing by independent groups. As\u2062 strategists reflect on \u2062their campaign strategies, they \u200backnowledge their miscalculations and the \u200dneed for urgent adjustments if they hope to compete against Harris effectively in the upcoming elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">GOP strategists worry Harris&rsquo;s spending advantage could cost Trump Pennsylvania<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1770413\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a>&lsquo;s cash advantage over former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has become a point of concern for some Republican political operatives, who expressed worries about how that money could affect the race in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran GOP campaign strategists, speaking to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> on the condition of anonymity, gave varying opinions on the degree to which Harris&rsquo;s cash advantage will help her in November, but three in particular said<em> <\/em>they were concerned that Harris&rsquo;s focus on Pennsylvania could be problematic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not over if she wins Pennsylvania, but the map shrinks considerably,&rdquo; one Republican strategist assessed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The sheer amount of resources Harris is pouring into that state shows how difficult this race is going to be,&rdquo; a second GOP veteran stated, adding that he believes Trump should press for a second debate to &ldquo;hammer home how out of touch&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a>&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s policies are.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is the key to the election,&rdquo; a third strategist said bluntly. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t help but be a little nervous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign brought in $190 million in August, compared to $45 million for Trump&rsquo;s campaign, and spent $174 million compared to Trump&rsquo;s $61 million. In total, Harris is outspending Trump by roughly $5 million per day, according to Federal Election Commission filings.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to direct ad buys, the largest expenditures for both campaigns in August, Harris again leads Trump, $137 million to $47 million. Most of Harris&rsquo;s and Trump&rsquo;s campaign cash is being poured directly into battleground states, but in Pennsylvania specifically, Harris maintains a significant advantage. The Harris campaign and associated PACs have booked nearly $200 million in ad buys in the Keystone State through Nov. 5, compared to just under $78 million for the Trump team, according to an analysis conducted by <em>Business Insider.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One contributing factor to Harris&rsquo;s spending advantage can be traced directly to the Republican National Committee&rsquo;s decision to shutter vast parts of its state grassroots operations after Lara Trump and Michael Whatley took over leadership earlier this year. Instead, Trump and Republicans looked to essentially outsource door-knocking and other grassroots outreach to super PACs supporting the former president&rsquo;s 2024 bid.<\/p>\n<p>However, the GOP&rsquo;s decision to cull its grassroots operations has given Harris a leg up in spending and direct oversight of ground-level operations. Harris and the Democratic National Committee had more than 1,200 staffers on its payroll in August, nearly four times as many as Trump and the RNC&rsquo;s 320 staffers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is entirely a problem of our own creation. We thought we were running against Basement Biden, that we could be cheap,&rdquo; a veteran GOP strategist who worked on both the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s way too late to change course, so all we can do at this point is hope and pray for the best.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what the PACs are doing,&rdquo; Mark Forton, the chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, similarly expressed to the <em>Associated Press<\/em>. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if they are going door to door.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump does hold advantages over Harris when it comes to direct mail marketing and spending from independent, outside spending groups.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Groups backing Trump spent $163 million in August, compared to $104 million from groups backing Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Make America Great Again Inc., the core PAC backing Trump&rsquo;s run, raised $25 million last month, including $10 million from billionaire Diane Hendricks and a $5 million donation from former Trump critic Paul Singer. Billionaire Elon Musk, who stood up the pro-Trump America PAC in August, isn&rsquo;t required to report its donations to the federal government until October and is reportedly pouring more than $15 million into grassroots door-knocking efforts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign did not respond to questions for this story.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president will likely continue her fundraising and spending advantage over Trump through November.<\/p>\n<p>Harris pulled in $27 million from a New York City fundraiser this past Sunday, which was attended by the likes of Whoopi Goldberg and Anne Hathaway, and she&rsquo;ll likely see similar hauls from a pair of fundraisers in San Francisco and Los Angeles next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple GOP strategists agreed that Harris&rsquo;s numbers indicated she had effectively wiped out the enthusiasm problem plaguing Democrats when President Joe Biden was the candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" \"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kamala Harris might have energized Democratic voters, but she&rsquo;s still hiding her policies. She&rsquo;s still dodging interviews. That won&rsquo;t fly with independents,&rdquo; one told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know Democrats are going to show up and vote, but President Trump, his campaign, and his supporters are working nonstop to prevent another four years of Comrade Kamala and her country-destroying agenda,&rdquo; a second operative stated, shooting down the idea that Trump can&rsquo;t counter Harris&rsquo;s spending spree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1770413\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1770413\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP strategists fear Harris&#8217;s spending edge may hurt Trump in Pennsylvania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2346419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/harris-trump-spending.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6203,4021,5894,3834,32076],"class_list":["post-2346418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gop","tag-harris","tag-politics","tag-spending","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/harris-trump-spending.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}