The Billionaire's Ball: The Precedent-Setting 2024 Presidential Election

Three of the world's richest people bought Trump the presidency by supplying more than one-third of the $1.4 billion he raised. Loser Harris bagged $2 billion from a more diverse set of billionaires.

We’ll never know just how much political cash was raked in by the two major 2024 presidential candidates because so much of it nowadays is funneled through dark money entities, but it’s already clear from the latest round of campaign finance disclosures that new official records were established during last year’s race in all major fundraising categories. The combined gross receipts to Kamala Harris and Donald Trump thus far come to about $3.4 billion, which tops the take from Biden-Trump 2020 by $600 million and is about three times higher than the total raised by the two major candidates during Clinton-Trump 2016.