Voter registration is breaking records as Election Day approaches, particularly among young people, many of whom are first-time voters.
On Tuesday’s National Voter Registration Day more than 150,000 people registered through Vote.org, the most the organization has ever seen on that day. The organization registered 279,400 voters in all of last year.
Last week, 337,826 people visited a link posted on Instagram by pop star Taylor Swift that directed them to their state’s voter registration site.
Although Swift noted that she would be voting for the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, people don’t have to declare a party affiliation when they register and neither vote.org nor Swift tracked registrations by party. Vote.org has previously told USA TODAY that about 80% of people they register turn out in the next election.
he Kamala Harris campaign spent nearly three times as much money as her rival Donald Trump did in August, according to campaign finance filings submitted to the Federal Election Commission.
According to Federal Election Commission data, the vice president’s campaign spent $174 million in August, compared to $61 million by the Trump campaign, Reuters reported.
Both Harris and Trump said most of their money in August was spent on ads, with smaller sums paying for rallies, travel and campaign staff salaries. For the Harris campaign, media production and ad buys accounted for $137 million. For the Trump campaign, paid media accounted for $47 million, according to Politico
Harris ended August with $235 million on hand, just over what it had at the beginning of the month, while Trump ended the month with $135 million, down $17 million from the start of the month, according to Reuters.
Harris reported raising $190 million during the month of August and Trump reported taking in $45 million.
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