Washington DC:
Almost a week after US President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and supported his running mate, Kamala Harris, as his successor, the vice president’s campaign raised $200 million, Al Jazeera reported.
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.
Additionally, more than 1,70,000 volunteers have also signed up to help Harris’ campaign with phone banking, campaigning and other voter-getting 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.
Meanwhile, 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 on hand at the end of June, while the Democratic campaign had $240 million in cash on hand at the time.
Harris quickly gathered Democratic support after Biden, whose candidacy fizzled after 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, also announced their endorsement on Friday.
The Democratic National Convention will decide next month, however, whether Harris will become the party’s nominee, Al Jazeera reported.
Harris, at her fundraiser on Saturday, said she remained the “underdog” in the race but that her campaign was gaining momentum.
His acquisition reinvigorated a campaign that had seriously failed, as Democrats were left in doubt about Biden’s chances of defeating Trump or his ability to remain in the White House if he had 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. .
With 100 days until the election, polls last week showed Harris and Trump essentially tied, setting the stage for a tight campaign, Al Jazeera reported.
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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