September 4, 2024

Contact: Tommy Pigott and Taylor Rogers, Team Trump

HUGE FUNDRAISING – The Trump-Vance Campaign and authorized committees had another massive month of fundraising exceeding internal benchmarks and yet again demonstrating huge support from grassroots donations.

With $130 million raised in August, a stunning 98 percent of this month’s donations were under $200. This resulted in an average donation of $56, from everyday Americans. With this fundraising, the campaign ended August with $295 million cash on hand ensuring the resources needed to propel President Trump’s campaign to victory. 

In the words of Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Brian Hughes, “With Republicans united and a growing number Independents and disaffected Democrats crossing partisan lines, the Trump-Vance campaign has momentum for the final stretch of the race. These fundraising numbers from August are a reflection of that movement and will propel President Trump’s America First movement back to the White House so we can undo the terrible failures of Harris and Biden.

KAMALA VS SMALL BUSINESSES – Today, Kamala Harris announced a “small business plan” – as if she hasn’t already destroyed the livelihoods of millions of Americans with sky-high prices, regulatory burdens, and tax hikes.

The reality: Kamala’s policy choices have punished existing small business owners throughout her time in office:

• Kamala cast the tie-breaking vote to bury small businesses and independent contractors in needless paperwork and saddle small businesses with higher taxes on declared losses – something startups often face.
• The Harris-Walz tax plan calls for the largest tax hike in history, including a higher income tax, higher business taxes, higher investment taxes, an unrealized gains tax, and an expanded death tax – among others – all to pay for her Radical Left lunacy.
• Kamala has pledged to eliminate President Trump's tax cuts, which allowed business owners to deduct up to 20% of qualified business income, cut taxes on new equipment purchases, and leveled the playing field between small businesses and larger corporations.

In fact, Kamala wants to raise taxes on 92% of America’s small businesses by opposing the Trump Tax Cuts. The details:

• The Trump Tax Cuts created a deduction for households with income from small businesses.
• The “pass-through deduction” reduced taxes for more than 17 million households that receive income from pass-through businesses – companies that are not subject to the corporate income tax.
• As many as 28 million of the approximately 30 million private business establishments in the United States are pass-through businesses.

Further, for 31 months straight under Kamala, the small business optimism has been well below its 50-year average (following record-high optimism under President Trump) – and half of small businesses fear they won’t survive another four years of Kamala Harris.

Kamala’s real plan is no mystery, we’ve been living through it. She has been in office for 3.5 years and only delivered hardship. Read the full post from Team Trump here.

PRAYING FOR WINDER, GEORGIA – President Trump released the following statement on the shooting at Apalachee High School.

DEBUNKING KAMALA’S AD – In case you missed today’s “Harris Weakness Wednesdays” post, Team Trump debunked Kamala’s recent ad on the economy.

• CLAIM: “We all know costs are too high.”
  • FACT: For once, Kamala’s campaign actually told the truth. Costs are too high and the American people have Kamala Harris and her tie-breaking votes on two massive Democrat spending bills to “thank.” Even liberal economists blame her spending.

• CLAIM: “While corporations are gouging families…”
  • FACT: Democrats need to blame inflation on someone to fit their “blame-shifting” strategy, but unfortunately for them, it has been debunked time after time. Even the Harris-Biden Labor Department has admitted this claim to be false.
• CLAIM:  “Trump is focused on giving [corporations] tax cuts.”
  • FACT: Kamala Harris said she would repeal President Trump’s middle-class tax cuts that saved American families thousands of dollars each year. Her tax plan would effectively be a $1.4 trillion tax hike on Americans and would kill 125,000 jobs, lower wages, and shrink the economy.
• CLAIM:  “Kamala Harris is focused on you.”
  • FACT: Kamala Harris has been hiding from the American people since she disregarded the votes of 14 million Americans who voted in the Democrat primary. Kamala and Walz have only done one “interview” since then. President Trump and JD Vance have done 34.
• CLAIM:  “Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency.”
  • FACT: Kamala Harris has proven she puts the middle class last. She has had three and a half years and done nothing but cause problems for American families. In fact, the average middle-class household has lost $33,000 in real wealth under Kamala.
• CLAIM:  “She’ll make groceries more affordable by cracking down on price gouging.”
  • FACT: Since Kamala Harris took office, grocery prices are up over 20%. Now she wants to add bread lines to her record of price hikes by pursuing what even the liberal Washington Post calls a Soviet-style price-control plan.
• CLAIM:  “[Kamala Harris] will cut housing costs.”
  • FACT: Kamala’s so-called housing “assistance” plan would only worsen the affordability crisis by squeezing demand and causing home prices to rise even more, according to economists.

This misleading ad claims Kamala will work for middle-class Americans, but her record and the facts prove otherwise. President Trump is the only one who will fight for all Americans and put our country back on track!

For Kamala’s real record, go to Kamala2024Policies.com.

“MIXED SIGNALS” – She’s for it, then against it, then for it again – that basically sums up Kamala’s dishonest effort to erase her dangerously liberal record from history.

According to Axios, “Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign won't say whether she supports requiring automakers to build only electric or hydrogen vehicles by 2035 – a position she took during her 2020 campaign for president.”

Here’s the timeline – as reported by Axios – over the past week:

• “In a lengthy ‘fact-check’ email last week that covered several issues, a campaign spokesperson included a line saying that Harris ‘does not support an electric vehicle mandate’ – suggesting she changed her previous position, without elaborating.
• On Aug. 28 Axios asked the Harris campaign to clarify her position, and whether she would sign or veto a bill she co-sponsored in 2019 that included such a mandate for manufacturers. 
• On Tuesday afternoon, Harris' campaign ultimately declined to comment.”

These aren’t flip-flops; these are lies. Kamala Harris is still as dangerously liberal as she has always been. That’s why she can’t give a straight answer, she knows Americans won’t like her true position.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS THE MOMENTUM – Trump Campaign Senior Advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles are out with a must-read new memo on the state of the race.

Some highlights

• “Three weeks ago, the Democrat’s newly crowned nominee – Kamala Harris – was leading in Nate Silver’s Electoral College modeling. The forecast has since inversed in President Trump’s favor. The state of the race is clear: with just nine weeks until the most consequential election in American history, the Trump-Vance Campaign has the momentum.”
• “Kamala Harris has built-in defenders on national TV who routinely defend her with glowing headlines, made-for-TV segments, and little scrutiny. Nearly 90% of the Dominant Media's coverage of President Trump has been negative. It’s not just a statistic; it is reality…Despite the bias, if the election were held today, Donald Trump would be reelected.”
• “Despite her efforts to ‘reintroduce herself,’ it is abundantly clear after her softball interview with Dana Bash that Kamala is the same Radical Left lunatic she has always been. She still believes in mass amnesty, ending cash bail, banning fracking, abolishing private health insurance, and banning gas-powered vehicles. Take it from her when she says, ‘My values haven’t changed.’” 
• “Several media-sponsored polls show that compared to 2020 exit polls, President Trump is outperforming with Blacks, Hispanics and even younger voters (18-34) so far in 2024. Now, the Harris campaign is spending millions of dollars on targeted TV and radio advertisements to stem the loss of black support in battleground states.”
• “Everything that Kamala and her campaign do is marred by error. When Kamala Harris ventured out to unveil a ‘new’ policy for the first time, it was President Trump’s previously announced ‘No Tax on Tips’ policy. In what was billed as a policy address, Kamala endorsed a failed policy of the 1970s: price controls on almost every facet of the American economy. Then, Kamala’s campaign announced the most significant policy pronouncement that American voters have yet to hear and deserves more attention: a $5 trillion tax increase over a decade.”

To read the full memo, click here.

“WE DID IT, JOE” – Because of Kamala Harris, we have “Bidenomics,” and Americans are paying the price. Watch the video here.

ATTENTION NORTH CAROLINA! – President Trump has a message directly for you about voting. Watch the video here.

EVEN KAMALA SURROGATES HATE HER PLANS – “Harris-Walz surrogate” Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna trashed Comrade Kamala's plan to tax unrealized gains. Watch the video here.

WHAT SMALL BUSINESS HAVE TO SAY – New Hampshire small business owners currently living through the disaster that is Kamalanomics have a lot to say to Kamala Harris as she visits the Granite State.

• Tom Moulton, SleepNet Corporation, Hampton NH: “Lately it feels like the end of days for America. We as true Americans have an opportunity to save our country with a Trump presidency.  The choice has never been clearer. This is communism versus freedom. Remember what it was like during Trump's four years in office, how great everyone and the country was doing. Our country cannot and will not be able to withstand a Kamala Harris presidency and the progressive Democratic agenda. Our way of life as we know it will be over. It will be the beginning of the end for America if Kamala wins.” 
• Michael A Moote Jr, Moote Property Maintenance, Claremont: “Under the Biden-Harris Administration, cost of living has skyrocketed for Granite State families and cost of doing business has soared for small businesses. It's simply unaffordable for too many working families and small business owners, and Kamala only wants to make it worse. I'll be voting for President Trump in 2024, and so will every other small business owner I know.”
• Michael Demars, Owner CCI Managed Services, Claremont: “Kamala Harris's failed economy has been an absolute disaster for hard-working Granite Staters with higher inflation, higher energy costs, and higher taxes. You cannot have democracy without free speech and she has directly supported the censorship of Americans as a part of Biden’s administration. Small business owners like myself have been crushed by Kamala, and we look forward to her losing in 2024 and getting President Trump, a successful businessman, back in the White House.”
• Crissy Kantor, Chill Spa, Manchester, NH: “New Hampshire's small business owners deserve better than Kamalanomics and Kamala Harris's America Last agenda. In 2024, small business owners across America will stand with President Trump.”
• John O'Blenis III, John's Painting Service, Raymond, NH: “As a small business owner, I know how devastating the high taxes and high inflation have been under the Biden-Harris Administration. Kamala Harris is the most radical left-wing nominee in American history, and hard-working middle-class families simply cannot afford four more years of the same failed policies.”
• Scott Fitzgerald, Owner Fast Signs, Manchester, NH: “The tax hikes under a Kamala Harris administration would be devastating to small businesses in New Hampshire. Penalizing small businesses for making a profit is as un-American as it gets. I'll be encouraging all my fellow small business owners to join me in voting for President Trump.”
• Greg Belisle, Arrowhead Motors, Claremont, NH: “Why would I vote for Kamala Harris when she has already failed to help me as vice president? When President Trump was in office, my business was doing better because people had more money to spend. Kamala Harris is just another politician who makes empty promises to get elected. President Trump is a businessman. He understands what we need. That's why he has my vote.” 

Read the full release here.

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