Harris quickly gathered Democratic support after President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the Nov. 5 election.
US Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has raised $200 million since President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the presidential election race and endorsed her as his successor.
The campaign, which announced its latest fundraising totals on Sunday, said the majority of donations — 66 percent — came from first-time contributors in the 2024 election cycle.
More than 170,000 volunteers have also signed up to help Harris’ campaign with phone banking, campaigning and other get-out-the-vote efforts.
“Vice President Harris’s momentum and energy are real – and so are the fundamentals of this race: This election will be very close and decided by a small number of voters in just a few states,” said Michael Tyler, the campaign’s communications director. wrote in a memo.
Donald Trump’s campaign said in early July that it raised $331 million in the second quarter, surpassing the $264 million that Biden’s campaign and its Democratic allies raised in the same period.
The Trump campaign had $284.9 million in cash at the end of June, while the Democratic campaign had $240 million in cash at the time.
‘Tight race’
Harris quickly gathered Democratic support after Biden, whose candidacy fizzled following his disastrous June 27 debate performance against Trump, dropped out of the race.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, former House Minority Leader Jim Clyburn, former President Bill Clinton and former -Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were quick to announce their support.
Prodigious Democratic fundraisers former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama announced their endorsement on Friday.
The Democratic National Convention will decide next month, however, whether Harris will become the party’s nominee.
At her fundraiser on Saturday, Harris said she remained the “underdog” in the race but that her campaign was gaining momentum.
His acquisition reinvigorated a campaign that had seriously faltered due to Democrats’ doubts about Biden’s chances of defeating Trump or his ability to continue governing if he won.
Meanwhile, at his campaign appearance in St Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday, Trump called Harris a “crazy liberal,” accused her of wanting to “defund the police” and said she was an “absolute radical” on abortion. .
Polls last week showed that Harris and Trump were essentially tied, setting the stage for a tight campaign in the 100 days remaining until the election.
On Sunday, campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu said on MSNBC that Harris “had one of the best weeks we’ve seen in politics in the last 50 years.”
“This will be a very close race,” he said.
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