Let's discuss with Gregory Cordy.
He is Bloomberg senior White House and politics correspondent joining
us from Washington.
So the tally alone is impressive.
But let's talk about the makeup here.
When it comes to first time donors, when it comes
to women, Gregory, yeah, I've been a third of these
are first time donors.
And that's really important for campaigns because first of all,
it suggests some upside.
You know, there's a $3300 per person limit that you
can give to anyone campaign.
And so if you're giving $50 now, that means you
still have a lot more that you could potentially give.
And, you know, the one thing that campaigns worry about
getting closer to Election Day is sort of donor fatigue,
right?
Because they're coming to these donors again and again month
after month.
Those first time numbers suggest there's still some enthusiasm there.
And then 2/3 of these came from women and that's
sort of remarkable.
Obviously, we have a woman at the top of the
Democratic ticket, not the first time that happened, but it
really suggests sort of a growing gender gap, especially when
contrasted to Donald Trump who does not do particularly well
with women.
So those are those are the two numbers that were
highlighted here in this $82 million per week, the last
week of the convention total.
It's about half a billion dollars just since Kamala Harris
took over the Democratic ticket and that, you know, she
was left with a war chest of $92 million from
Joe Biden.
So she's really built on that and expanded it.
You know, Gregory, I believe also the teachers and nurses,
according to the campaign were among the most highly watched
professions here or the most common donor professions.
When you look at those numbers as well.
At the same time, you have a lot of Wall
Street waking up.
Heard a lot of things over the weekend from a
lot of high level Wall Street folk who are very
worried about the posturing from the Harris campaign when it
comes to certain tax policies.
Who is she courting ultimately on her economic policies as
she goes further into this race?
Yeah, we, we've gotten to a little bit of an
arms race here between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on
economic policy as they both look to really shore up
some key demographics, especially in swing states.
And so the, the, the, the best example of that
is Donald Trump proposing no income taxes or earnings taxes
of any kind on tipped income.
That's something that Kamala Harris followed up with her own
proposal.
They're also dueling on childcare tax credits with different proposals.
These are extremely expensive proposals.
And and I think the worry is that if you're
giving away of the these sort of tax breaks at
the lower end of the income spectrum, what is that
going to mean for taxes?
But both corporate taxes and taxes on high earners in
order to balance the budget?
Because what we're seeing so far, we're looking at a
lot of budget busting proposals that if they're, if either
campaign is going to be honest with the math here,
they're going to have to find revenue somewhere else.
And Gregory, before we let you go, we don't have
much time left.
But I want to talk about the debate because I
mentioned that we have 15 days to go.
But then you take a look at what Trump was
posting on Truth Social over the weekend, saying that I
watched ABC fake News this morning.
And I asked why would I do the debate against
Kamala Harris on that network?
So maybe backtracking a little bit on that agreement to
debate her on stage.
What are the campaigns actually saying?
Yeah.
Well, keep in mind, this is a game that Donald
Trump has played again and again through a number of
campaign cycles.
Will he debate?
Won't he debate?
There's a lot of, you know, gamesmanship here.
The debate about the debates is the sort of the
phase that we're in right now.
He, as of now, he has committed to that date.
And certainly Kamala Harris is expecting him to show up.
Certainly if he doesn't show up, the Harris campaign will
try to capitalize on that to say that Trump is
scared to debater.
Keep in mind what happened just a couple of months
ago when Trump debated Biden.
That was a game changing moment for the campaign.
Usually most presidential campaigns, debates don't matter a whole lot.
This is the campaign where maybe they do.
And so this is high stakes.
And that's I think where we're getting a little bit
of the the posturing here.