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SEE HOW YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS GIVING TO TRUMP AND HARRIS

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By Clara Ence Morse
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Kevin Schaul
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Azi Paybarah
Updated October 24, 2024 at 12:43 p.m. EDT|Published October 23, 2024 at 2:05
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CORRECTION

An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that more people in
every state donated to Vice President Kamala Harris than to former president
Donald Trump, and it misreported donor totals in the map and chart. This was an
error because data from one fundraising committee, Trump National Committee, was
not included. There are six states where Trump had more donors: Alabama, Idaho,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Wyoming. The article and graphics have been
corrected.

In most states across the country, more people donated to Vice President Kamala
Harris than to former president Donald Trump.

Registered voters in suburbs were about twice as likely to give to Harris as to
Trump. A vast majority of Trump’s donors under 35 were men. And in the
battleground state of Georgia, where Black voters make up one third of the
electorate, less than 4 percent of Trump donors were Black.

Those are among the findings from a Washington Post analysis of online
contributions to the Trump, Harris and President Joe Biden campaigns, combined
with voter registration data. There are outside groups that don’t have to
disclose donors and that make up some of the spending for both Harris and Trump,
so this is only a part of the funds backing the two candidates. The result is
still a detailed snapshot, down to the Zip code level, of who clicked and tapped
to send a few dollars to the leading candidates since Trump launched his
campaign in November 2022.

HOW ONLINE DONORS GAVE NEAR YOU

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Harris has raised over $1 billion since entering the race on July 21, according
to people familiar with the fundraising. Her three-month haul dwarfs Trump’s
numbers over the same period. However, analysts caution against drawing a
straight line between donations and votes in any one area.



“If you give money to a candidate, you’re probably going to make sure you go out
and vote,” said Charles S. Bullock III, a political science professor at the
University of Georgia. “It’s a strong wind, but it doesn’t tell you everything,”
he added.

For instance, in recent years, Democratic donors have tended to have more
college education and disposable income than their Republican counterparts,
skewing the landscape of donors, said David Wasserman, senior editor and
elections analyst for the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. But he still
said that analyzing where campaigns are pulling in donations from “can be a good
indicator” of which way a neighborhood is leaning.

Here’s a look at how three battleground states and key voting blocs within them
donated to the Harris and Trump campaigns, and what it says about the candidates
heading into Election Day.


HARRIS HAS AN ADVANTAGE WITH SUBURBAN WOMEN’S DONATIONS

Suburban voters were more likely to give to Harris than to Trump nationally, The
Post found. And in Pennsylvania, that was also the case. The Post was able to
match about three-quarters of donors registered to vote in the state’s suburbs
to voter registration records, and found that 70 percent of those donors gave to
Harris. This is slightly above the 67 percent of suburban donors who supported
Harris nationally.

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Harris’s advantage in Pennsylvania’s suburbs was driven in large part by female
donors, 78 percent of whom supported Harris instead of Trump. Just 62 percent of
suburban male donors supported Harris’s campaign.

But not all of the state’s suburbs supported Harris equally. In Philadelphia’s
four main suburban counties, three-quarters of donors gave to Harris. But in
Pittsburgh’s suburbs, Harris and Trump essentially split support. In both cases,
women were again more likely to support Harris than men. The gender gap was
particularly pronounced in Pittsburgh, where 60 percent of female donors who are
registered voters gave to Harris over Trump compared to 40 percent of men — a
20-point gender gap.

Election analysts like Wasserman argue that it’s not just the suburbs that will
matter in Pennsylvania. Medium-sized towns in Northampton and Erie counties
could be pivotal. When Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016, he squeaked by with
single-digit victories in both of those counties. Four years later, Democrats
narrowly flipped them and won the state.

In both Northampton and Erie, over 63 percent of donors registered to vote
supported Harris compared to Trump. Overall, donations in these two counties
were in line with the national trend in medium-sized metropolitan counties,
according to The Post’s analysis.

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IN ARIZONA, YOUNG MEN BOOST TRUMP GIVING

On the whole, Trump’s donors were slightly older and more likely to be male than
Harris’s. But there were some signs that Trump was doing well with young men,
especially in Arizona.

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Forty-two percent of male donors in Arizona under the age of 45 who were
registered to vote gave to Trump. This is well above the national average of 31
percent for that group, underscoring Trump’s appeal to younger voters in the Sun
Belt state.

Trump appeared to be doing particularly well with men in the least diverse parts
of Arizona. In majority-White, rural Mohave County, for instance, Trump received
over 80 percent of young men’s donations. And in the more urban and
majority-White Phoenix exurbs of Queen Creek and San Tan Valley, around
two-thirds of young men gave to the former president.

Trump did less well, however, with young men around college campuses. Young men
in the Zip codes around Phoenix, where Arizona State University’s campuses are
located, overwhelmingly gave to Harris, by a 2 to 1 margin.

Overall, more young men gave to Harris than Trump nationally — about 70 percent
of such donors — but were still three times as likely as young women to give in
support of the Republican candidate.

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GEORGIA’S BLACK DONORS GIVE OVERWHELMINGLY TO DEMOCRATS

In Georgia, Harris has the support of 83 percent of Black voters, according to a
recent Post-Schar School survey. It is an overwhelming lead, but nationally she
is still slightly behind where Biden was with Black voters four years ago.

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When it comes to financial support among Black Georgians, Harris led Trump 20 to
1, according to The Post’s analysis. Among 45,000 Black presidential donors that
matched with voter registration records, more than 95 percent had given to
Harris or Biden since November 2022. Only about 2,000, or less than 5 percent,
gave to Trump.

Harris’s advantage among Black donors was especially strong among Black women:
two-thirds of Black donors are female. And there was evidence that Black women
in the state had been especially energized by Harris’s entry into the race: Most
began giving only after Harris announced her campaign for the nomination,
according to The Post’s analysis.

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The key to winning is not just money, but geography, according to Christina
Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University. “All states are red
states; it’s just whether or not your state has enough blue cities to turn it
into a red state, or blue state, every four years,” she said.

ABOUT THIS STORY

The Post analyzed Federal Election Commission filings from the online
fundraising groups ActBlue and WinRed, from when Trump launched his reelection
campaign on Nov. 15, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2024, the most recent data available at
publication time. For both of Biden and Harris’s 2024 campaigns, The Post
identified donations earmarked to Harris for President, Harris Action Fund,
Harris Victory Fund, Biden for President, Biden Action Fund, Biden Victory Fund,
Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund or the Democratic National Committee. For
analysis of Trump’s 2024 campaigns, The Post identified donations earmarked to
Trump 47, Trump National Committee, Donald J. Trump for President 2024, Save
America, Make America Great Again PAC, Trump Save America JFC, Trump Victory,
Trump Make America Great Again Committee, Trump Bilirakis Victory Fund or the
Republican National Committee. Unique donors were determined based on a
combination of first name, last name, Zip code and state of residence.

Data on donors’ age, gender, race, and political party was found by matching FEC
donation records to statewide voter registration records from L2, based on first
and last name, Zip code and state. About 70 percent of Harris or Biden donors,
and about 68 percent of Trump donors, could be matched to a voter registration
record. Donors were matched to voter registration data based on the year they
donated. The numbers reflected here are estimates based on these matches.

The urban or suburban status of a county was determined based on the county’s
most recent NCHS classification. Large fringe metro counties are referred to
here as suburban.


ELECTION 2024

Follow live updates on the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris and
former president Donald Trump from our reporters on the campaign trail and in
Washington.

Presidential polls: Check out how Harris and Trump stack up, according to The
Washington Post’s presidential polling averages of seven battleground states.
We’ve identified eight possible paths to victory based on the candidates’
standing in the polls and created a guide to the seven swing states.

Early voting: We mapped where millions of Americans have cast a ballot in the
2024 election through mail and in-person early voting.

Policy positions: We’ve collected Harris’s and Trump’s stances on the most
important issues — abortion, economic policy, immigration and more.

House and Senate control: Senate Democrats are at risk of losing their slim
51-49 majority this fall. The Post broke down the nine races and three long
shots that could determine Senate control. In the House, 10 competitive races
will determine whether Republicans will retain their narrow control of the
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Clara Ence MorseClara Ence Morse is a political data reporter at The Washington
Post. She joined The Post as the Investigative Reporting Workshop intern with
the Data team, and previously served as the editor in chief of the Columbia
Daily Spectator. She lives in Washington, D.C.@ccemorse
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Kevin SchaulKevin Schaul is a senior graphics reporter for The Washington Post.
He covers business and tech using data, visuals and code.
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Azi PaybarahPaybarah joined The Washington Post in 2022. He previously covered
politics for the New York Times, Politico New York and was a Knight-Wallace
Fellow in 2017.@Azi
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