Green group boosts spending goal to $155M to aid Dems

By Timothy Cama | 10/21/2024 01:30 PM EDT

The record-breaking effort comes just a little more than two weeks until Election Day.

Vice President Kamala Harris in Jonesboro, Georgia, on Sunday.

Vice President Kamala Harris at an early vote event Sunday in Jonesboro, Georgia. Greens plan to up their spending on the election. Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The League of Conservation Voters is significantly boosting the amount of money it plans to spend to support Kamala Harris and Democrats in the 2024 election cycle.

LCV said Monday that by the time the election is over, it plans to spend $155 million, up from the $120 million goal it had set in March. That total includes LCV’s super PAC and affiliated organizations, such as its state affiliates and its platform for sending contributions from individual donors to candidates.

“The reason for that, simply, is the stakes,” Pete Maysmith, senior vice president of campaigns for LCV, told POLITICO’s E&E News.

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“There’s both significant enthusiasm for Kamala Harris because of what’s done on climate and clean energy and what she plans to do,” he continued, “but also, what another Trump term would mean for dismantling the progress we’ve seen under President Biden in fulfilling Big Oil’s wish list.” He attributed the enthusiasm both to the group’s donors and to voters.

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