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The Latest: DNC says it's investing in state parties as Harris campaign raises $200 million

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With Election Day less than 100 days away, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in a sprint to decide a race that was recently transformed by President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw his bid for reelection
With Election Day less than 100 days away, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in a sprint to decide a race that was recently transformed by President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw his bid for reelection.
Trump’s allies gleefully predicted a landslide victory during a Republican National Convention that felt more like a coronation for a nominee who had just survived an assassination attempt and was promising to unite the country. Democrats, desperate and listless, feared the worst as a diminished Biden clung to his party’s nomination.
But over the last seven days, a week unlike any other in American history, the 2024 presidential contest has been transformed.
Here’s the Latest:
The Democratic National Committee says it’s investing at least $8.3 million in state parties around the country this cycle, which it says is 25% more since 2020.
In a memo released Monday detailing its strategy with Election Day now less than 100 days away, the DNC said those investments include nearly $2 million being sent to state party officials in Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and elsewhere with an eye toward boosting down ballot races.

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