The Harris campaign announced Tuesday it is sending nearly $25 million to Democratic committees to invest in down-ballot candidates, using its significant fundraising haul to try and secure majorities in Congress.
The campaign said it was transferring $10 million each to the Democratic campaign arms of the Senate and the House, plus an additional $2.5 million to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which helps elect Democrats to statehouses. The Harris campaign is also sending $1 million each to the Democratic Governors Association and the Democratic Attorneys General Association.
“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 campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement. “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.”
Harris has been a fundraising juggernaut since she replaced President Biden atop the party’s ticket. O’Malley Dillon said in a memo over the weekend that Harris had raised more than $540 million since she entered the race on July 21, a historic amount for a candidate in that timeframe.
The vice president has already rolled out a handful of economic proposals for a potential presidential term, but those policies are unlikely to go anywhere without Democratic majorities.
Democrats are narrowly in the minority in the House and hold a slim majority in the Senate, and there they have to defend vulnerable seats in Montana, Ohio, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said Tuesday’s announcement will allow Senate Democrats to “reach more voters, increase the strength of our campaigns and ensure Democrats protect our Senate majority.”
