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US VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris’s campaign for the presidency raised $310 million last month.
$200 million in donations came in the week following President Joe Biden’s endorsement of Harris as his replacement after he bowed out of the race, according to a statement from her campaign.
The total sum reflects donations directly to the Harris campaign, the Democratic National Committee and joint fundraising committees.
More than three million donors contributed, with two-thirds of the money coming from first-time donors and 60% from women.
Meanwhile, former president Donald Trump’s campaign and associated committees raised $138.7 million for July.
Harris’s campaign said it started August with $377 million cash in hand, while the equivalent figure announced by the Trump campaign stood at $327 million.
“The tremendous outpouring of support we’ve seen in just a short time makes clear the Harris coalition is mobilised, growing, and ready to put in the work to defeat Trump this November,” said Harris’s campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez in a statement.
“Our money is going to the work that wins close elections.”
Additional reporting from Press Association and AFP
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Makes me sick to my stomach, this poor man and his family are being made homeless whilst we have a housing and asylum sneaker crisis going on. Entire villages and housing estates are being built for non nationals. How do i know? Because I have a an old colleague working for a big hush hush development, actually he is involved in two of them. Earmarked for non Irish specifically, so tell me again how this integration and diversity works again.
@Freda Peeple: You sad little man with your multiple accounts and fantasy friends. Don’t know how people like you get up in the morning. Or afternoon in your case.
@Arcadian Productions: What are you on about? I have one profile you spacer, one of the commenters above posted about one of the developments I’m on about, you must be waiting for it to be on RTE until you believe it? There’s a lot of dodgy stuff happening around the country, it’s not my fault you are oblivious, now go away and have your hissy fit elsewhere, I can’t help you.
@Arcadian Productions: You snotty nosed little student, what do you know about the real world!
@Freda Peeple: you’ll be waiting a long time so,RTE is part of the corruption in this country
@Freda Peeple: the poor man decided to flout planning so don’t feel a bit sorry for him
@Freda Peeple: a big hush hush development? Yeah right. You wouldn’t be lying again would you, by any chance?
Disgraceful, this government and its policies are the reason why the housing issue exists.
Not saying this man was hard done by as I believe most regulations are necessary in society but a massive tented development was put up almost overnight in Athlone with next to no planning applications etc.
Just another example of the madness this country is descending into!
@Brian Hunt: Its not madness, it’s Irish people. Every step of the way there are giddy Irish people looking for you to try so they can tell you ‘no’. We love nothing more it seems, as someone who’s built their own house the whole entire lot of them are actively looking to be a problem. Everyone from the estate agent to the bank, the builders, the planners, all of them are looking to enact difficulty.
@Thesaltyurchin: and it’s not just housing. It’s health, carers, grants. Everything is no. Well said.
@Thesaltyurchin: no problem building IPAS centres without planning permission by the government,government saying to the little people we do what we like,you have to follow rules
Planning permission is never refused unless there are grounds for refusing it – his building contravened planning rules and alas therefore it must come down .
One cannot have people erecting whatever they like without going through a planning process .
@Mike Ryan: someone should have a word with the company who built 65 houses in Wicklow without planning permission
@Mike Ryan: Would like the actual details, just bait for emotive response without it.
@John Darker: You mean someone like Wicklow County Council who have initiated enforcement proceedings?
@Paddy Whelan: yeah, the one that’s going nowhere Paddy
@John Darker: yeah Paddy ,the one that started in 2022, has been added to substantially since and is bankrolled by a company with more than a billion in assets ….
I said someone should have a word about it and investigate it ,
You got a problem with it being investigated and pursued to the bitter end.?
First court case hasn’t even started yet…
@Mike Ryan: the government can build IPS sites without planning permission and that’s okay in your book,is it?
@Billy Power: Not true.
What about these or do we have different laws for different people
https://gript.ie/65-houses-built-without-planning-permission-on-ipas-site-not-removed-despite-council-instructions/
@Dan Murphy: This is one of the builds that went up on the hush hush. They were hoping for retention, reckless.
A man builds a two bedroom cabin in an attempt to house his family and is told to tear it down because it does not adhere to guidelines. Family now homeless. Are these the same guidelines that allow a €300,000 bike shed to be erected elsewhere? Or are they different guidelines
Ridiculous that this is happening, same with the guy down in cork who clad a mobile home in wood on his own land, people just want to have a place to call home but because it doesnt feed the wallets of multinational developers the councils, courts, and govt dont care, if log cabins were allowed there wouldnt be so many people still living with their parents well into their 30′s
Why doesn’t he just not take it down and continue to live in it.
I wouldn’t do it I would keep it in the garden if they can build temporary housing for all the refugees coming into the country on public lands and private lands then why can’t this man keep a log cabin in his garden? One rule for them and another for us
Gave up is house AND job!? Sorta disgusting but not unsurprising. Ultimately there’s not enough info here tho.
This country is a bloody farce since Charlie haughe told us all to tighten our belts while he was living high up on the hoc and what about the galway tent shenanigans banker bailouts and I could go on . A man trying to house his family the best way he can and some arsehol@ of a judge coming down hard on him one law for thee and none for me this incompetent government and their business cronies coining it in at all our expenses.
House him in Kapure estate…
Should have built it in Fingal, they don’t have a planning enforcement section.
Council tramps with all day to do nothing only spend tax payers money on that sort of shite
@Myles O’ Reilly:
100%
State sponsored homelessness is what comes to mind. What is wrong with an authority that would rather make you homeless than provide a home for yourself just because they don’t like the look of it.
Disgraceful
When you apply for planning retention you take your chances.
Should send in bulldozers demolishing everything and send him the bill. Nothing but lowlives.
This is just insane.
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