Harris-Trump cash dash: Former president looks to flip script with fundraising swing in oil country

Trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 cash dash, former President Trump heads next week to Texas, a state that's long served as an ATM for Republican White House candidates.

Aiming to narrow the fundraising gap with Harris, the former president will headline a luncheon Oct. 2 in Midland, Texas, as he courts donors in oil country. That luncheon will be followed by a cocktail reception in Houston, sources in Trump's political orbit confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Trump will also headline a fundraiser in Dallas during his Texas swing.

According to the latest figures available from the Federal Election Commission, Harris hauled in nearly $190 million in fundraising for her 2024 campaign in August, more than quadrupling the $44.5 million that Trump's team reported bringing into his principal campaign account last month.

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And the vice president's campaign entered September with $235 million cash on hand, well ahead of the $135 million in Trump's coffers, according to the FEC filings.

The latest cash figures are another sign of the vice president's surge in fundraising since replacing President Biden atop the Democrats' 2024 ticket over two months ago.

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This isn't the first time Trump's faced a fundraising deficit. He raised less than 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in his White House victory and by President Biden four years ago in his re-election defeat.

"The Democrats' small-dollar fundraising machine is just better," acknowledged Dan Eberhart, an oil drilling CEO and prominent Republican donor and bundler who raised big bucks for Trump in the 2020 and 2024 cycles.

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