Years before either came close to the White House, Donald J. Trump gave $6,000 to her campaigns for statewide office. His daughter, Ivanka, gave $2,000.
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Before she was elected vice president, Kamala Harris received donations from Donald J. Trump supporting her campaign to become California’s attorney general.
Long before former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were barreling toward a potential presidential showdown in November, Mr. Trump was one of her donors.
Mr. Trump donated $6,000 to Ms. Harris’s campaign when she was just beginning her career in statewide politics as a center-left prosecutor from San Francisco seeking to become California’s attorney general. Mr. Trump’s first donation, for $5,000, came in 2011, and he made an additional $1,000 contribution in 2014.
His daughter, Ivanka, also gave Ms. Harris’s campaign $2,000 in 2014, according to records first reported by the Sacramento Bee.
Ms. Harris, whose values have been shaped as much by the state’s tough-on-crime 1990s as by the Bay Area’s progressive politics, has long been a draw for Democratic donors. She raised more than $50 million in less than 24 hours after entering the 2024 race for president, her campaign said, as Democrats welcomed her candidacy with one of the greatest gushers of cash of all time.
Mr. Trump’s donations came at a time when he was facing a class-action lawsuit into whether Trump University bilked students out of money. Ms. Harris’s office never took action against the entity; officials working for Ms. Harris said at the time the donations had nothing to do with that lack of action.
Harris and Trump campaign officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.
Jazmine Ulloa is a national politics reporter for The Times, covering the 2024 presidential campaign. She is based in Washington. More about Jazmine Ulloa
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