Year in review: Billionaire battle for the White House — Harris’s $1 billion campaign to tech executives courting Trump
By
Heather Hunter
December 28, 2024 4:00 am
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Historic amounts of money were raised during the 2024 presidential election cycle. Many billionaires threw money at the campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump. Trump now has tech titan billionaires, who are frequently Democratic donors, courting him at Mar-a-Lago as they brace for a new era in America under a second Trump administration.
Here’s a look back at the mad scramble of the 2024 presidential campaigns and the billionaire donors who fought in the battle for control of the White House.
Harris’s campaign generated over $1 billion. She managed to raise this enormous amount courtesy of 81 billionaires, while her Republican rival had the backing of 51 billionaires.
There were 2,781 billionaires in the world as of April 2024, according to Forbes magazine.
Statistics from the Federal Election Commission and Bloomberg show Harris received enormous donations from former Meta Platforms executive Sheryl Sandberg, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. Twenty-eight Democratic billionaires donated $1 million to Harris.
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