Harris is running a much bigger campaign than Trump. Will it matter?

[Dennis Donovan]

3. It's good to be flush with cash...

From the WaPo (archived) article:
The scale of her financial advantage is larger than anything Trump faced in his two previous races for the White House. When combining campaign and national party spending, Harris is further ahead of Trump than Hillary Clinton at this point in 2016, Joe Biden at this point in 2020, or Barack Obama was ahead of his Republican opponents in his two races for the White House, according to a Washington Post analysis.

When advertising by outside groups is added to the candidate’s coordinated campaigns, Democrats spent $225 million more on presidential advertising between the end of the Democratic convention and Oct. 4 — or nearly 1.8 times the $294 million spent by Republicans, according to AdImpact.

I'm seeing more Dem ads in Central NYS (which is a Red-ish area of NYS) than GOP ads so they're confident squishy purple areas like mine are worth investing in. Good sign!