Here’s Every Billionaire Who’s Given $1 Million Or More To Help Kamala Harris Get Elected
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🗓️ 1 September 2024
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These 28 tycoons, worth a combined $280 billion, made their fortunes in fields like tech, real estate and finance. Half live in California.
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| 0:00.0 | Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, September 1st. |
| 0:05.0 | Today on Forbes, here is every billionaire who's given $1 million or more |
| 0:10.0 | to help Kamala Harris get elected. During a speech about our economic policy plans in August in Raleigh, North Carolina, |
| 0:18.0 | newly minted Democratic nominee Kamala Harris attacked Donald Trump for supporting tax cuts for the wealthy. |
| 0:25.2 | She said, quote, if you want to know who someone cares about, look at who they fight for. |
| 0:30.5 | Donald Trump fights for billionaires in large corporations. |
| 0:33.2 | I will fight to give money back to working and middle class Americans. |
| 0:38.0 | Even as she tries to claim the economic populism mantle, though, |
| 0:41.7 | her campaign is bankrolled by plenty of billionaires. |
| 0:46.0 | Forbes last examined the top Democratic mega donors funding Joe Biden's re-election campaign |
| 0:50.6 | in June, using filings through the end of May. |
| 0:54.0 | Since then, the top 10's total donations have jumped by nearly $10 million through the end of July, |
| 1:00.0 | according to the most up-to-date federal filings. |
| 1:03.0 | And plenty more billionaires have opened their pockets for Democrats. |
| 1:06.5 | We now count 28 billionaires, with a total net worth of $280 billion, |
| 1:12.0 | who have given more than $1 million to groups supporting the Democratic presidential |
| 1:16.0 | nominee. |
| 1:18.0 | Biden's fundraising apparatus and all the money he had raised passed to Harris shortly after the president dropped out on July 21st, |
| 1:25.8 | meaning that his donors became her donors. |
| 1:29.0 | And while the Harris campaign and Democratic groups reported a tsunami of cash in the days and weeks following |
| 1:34.0 | the candidate swap because some groups filings cover through the end of June and others through |
| 1:39.2 | the end of July when Harris had been the candidate for just nine days, it remains to be seen |
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