Despite spending more than the president-elect Donald Trump per million dollars during the electoral campaign, the vice-president Kamala Harris failed to prevent the former president from returning to the White House.

The Harris campaign received significantly more funding than Trump’s, spending more than Trump’s. Republican advertising machine by more than 70 percent in the home stretch of the elections.

According to Open Secrets data, Harris has received nearly $400 million from her top 20 donors. Trump received more than half a billion dollars from his top 20, including more than $100 million from EspaceX, Elon MuskThe rocket company.

The data, mapped by Information week, shows that the majority of both candidates’ top donors for the election cycle were based in California, New York and Washington, DC. Some 24 of the top 20 combined donors to each candidate were based in one of those three states, with California having the most at nine. The Golden State was home to two of Trump’s biggest donors and seven of Harris’s.

The biggest donor on the list was conservative investor Timothy Mellon, who lives in Wyoming. Mellon gave Donald Trump $150 million for the 2024 election cycle.

Harris’ largest donation came from the Forward Future USA political action committee (PAC), which invested more than $136 million in her campaign. Harris also received donations from Bloombergbased in New York, which gave just under $20 million, and Alphabetthe parent company of Googlewho donated $6 million.

Seven of the largest donors were based in the US capital, likely due to its proximity to levers of power such as Congress and the White House, as well as the easy access to legislators and other officials that Washington, DC offers.

In August, the Federal Election Commission reported that Harris spent nearly three times as much as Trump. The vice president’s campaign spent $174 million that month, compared to $61 million for the Trump campaign.

Despite maintaining similar ratios for the majority of the campaign, Harris lost the election, concede to Trump on Wednesday. In her speech, the vice president pledged to respect the results of the election and called on her journalists to do the same.

News week reported in early September that Trump had the upper hand in Super PAC fundraising. As of September 4, PACs supporting Trump had raised $305.6 million since the start of 2024, compared to $199.2 million for PACs supporting Harris.

Billionaire Musk also invested a significant amount in the Trump campaign, supporting the Republican with $130 million of his own cash.

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