This month marks the final month of the 2024 presidential election, which has felt like a madhouse for months.
Americans watched as a sitting Democratic president withdrew from the race, a Republican candidate narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, and the first woman of color to win a ticket to America rose to power. I witnessed it.
Where are candidates spending their money?
Money isn’t everything in politics, but it’s certainly not nothing. Where campaigns, and the super PACs that support them, spend their money is, above all, a good indicator of where the opportunities lie.
CNN’s David Wright, who tracks spending, describes how the Harris campaign focused spending on key “blue wall” states Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in the first week of October. pointed out. President Trump has focused on the Sunbelt, but he has spent the most on advertising in Pennsylvania, proving that the Sunbelt is central to both strategies.
Policy proposals were developed and candidates tried to define each other. Now it’s time to get the voter to the polling place or mailbox.
Early voting and voting by mail have already begun in many parts of the country, but early voting is not expected to reach the same levels as during the 2020 pandemic election. President Trump remains skeptical of mail-in voting, but Republicans are implementing it in key states this year to keep pace with Democrats who have embraced it.
Harris has supporters on the left and right, from popular Democrats like former President Barack Obama to disaffected anti-Trump Republicans like former Rep. Liz Cheney.
Trump will receive a bold endorsement from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, but overall he has few surrogates to rely on.
Read more about what to watch here.
