Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign has raised $540 million since it launched last month, including a surge bolstered by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and a total that amounts to \u201ca record for any campaign in history,\u201d according to a memo released Sunday by the campaign.<\/p>\n
The campaign raised $82 million during the convention last week, with the best hour coming after Harris delivered her acceptance speech Thursday night, according to the memo from Harris campaign manager Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon. A third of the week\u2019s donations were from first-time contributors, indicating her ability to tap into donors that President Joe Biden did not have when he was the presumptive Democratic nominee, the memo said. Two-thirds of the first-time donors were women, the campaign said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe enthusiasm and energy at the United Center this week was palpable,\u201d O\u2019Malley Dillon wrote. \u201cBut that enthusiasm extended well beyond Chicago, spreading far and wide throughout the battleground states that will decide this election.\u201d<\/p>\n
The campaign said the fundraising \u2014 which cannot be independently confirmed until its next finance reports are filed \u2014 reflects totals raised across Harris for President, the Democratic National Committee and joint fundraising committees.<\/p>\n
Volunteers also signed up for nearly 200,000 shifts during convention week, which marked the biggest week of organizing since the start of the campaign, the memo said.<\/p>\n
Following the convention, the campaign has released a new ad airing in all seven battleground states, and announced on Saturday that Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are campaigning on a bus tour in Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n
The latest number reflects a massive wave of fundraising by Democrats since Biden decided on July 21 to abandon his presidential reelection bid and throw his support behind Harris.<\/p>\n
Her campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised three times as much as Trump\u2019s campaign and the Republican National Committee in July. The cash advantage positions the newly minted Democratic presidential nominee to air more ads and maintain a larger payroll than her Republican opponent in the final months of the race for the White House.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Malley Dillon highlighted the outreach to Republicans disaffected by Trump, saying the convention \u201csupercharged our campaign\u2019s outreach to conservative and independent voters,\u201d including six Republican speakers featured onstage in Chicago.<\/p>\n
As of the end of July \u2014 the latest date for which figures reported to the Federal Election Commission are available \u2014 Harris and her allied committees reported having $377 million cash on hand going into August, compared with $327 million for the GOP. That gap appears likely to widen over the month of August. None of this accounts for the well-funded super PACs in support of each candidate, which have already begun flooding the airwaves with ads.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign has raised $540 million since it launched last month, including a surge bolstered by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and a total that amounts to \u201ca record for any campaign in history,\u201d according to a memo released Sunday by the campaign. The campaign raised $82 million during the convention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}