Kamala Harris’ campaign raised $200 million and registered 170,000 new volunteers during the week. President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid last Sunday. He endorsed Harris to run against former Republican President Donald Trump in the Nov. 5 vote. Polls over the past week, including one by Reuters/Ipsos, have shown Harris and Trump virtually tied.
Kamala Harris’ campaign raised $200 million.
Key highlights
- Harris’ campaign raised $200 million in one week.
- The campaign enrolled 170,000 new volunteers.
- Biden ended his reelection bid last Sunday.
Kamala Harris‘s campaign announced Sunday that it had raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she took over as campaign chief. Democratic PartyHarris was dropped as a presidential candidate as Republicans continued to criticize her work as vice president.
President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid last Sunday and endorsed Harris for the Nov. 5 vote against the Republican former president. Donald Trump.
“In her first week, @KamalaHarris has raised $200M, 66% of which came from new donors. 170,000 new volunteers signed up,” Harris’ deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty wrote on X.
Polls over the past week, including one by Reuters/Ipsos, have shown Harris and Trump essentially tied, projecting a close race with 100 days to go until the election.
The Trump campaign said in early July that it had raised $331 million in the second quarter, more than the $264 million raised by the Biden campaign and its Democratic allies during the same period. The Trump campaign had $284.9 million in cash at the end of June, compared with $240 million the Democratic campaigns had at the same time.
Harris has secured the support of a majority of delegates at the Democratic National Convention and is set to become the party’s nominee in next month’s presidential election.
“So our vice president is the presumptive nominee. The formal vote will take place on August 1st,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison told MSNBC on Sunday.
Biden, who dropped out of the race after a poor performance in a debate with Trump in late June and questions about his age and health emerged, has vowed to remain in office until the end of his term on Jan. 20, 2025.
Ms Harris’s rise to power has reinvigorated a campaign that had largely stalled amid Democrats’ doubts about Mr Biden’s ability to beat Mr Trump and continue to govern if he won.
Polls had shown Trump building a lead over Biden, including in battleground states, after Biden’s disastrous debate defeat, but Harris’ entry into the race has dramatically changed that.
A national poll released Thursday by The New York Times and Siena College showed Harris narrowing her wide lead over Trump, while a Wall Street Journal poll released Friday gave Trump a 2 percentage point lead over Harris. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released July 23 gave Harris a 2-point lead.
Republican attacks against Harris, the nation’s first female, first Black and South Asian vice president, have intensified since she became a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who supported Trump after losing the Republican nomination, told Fox News that Harris was “incredibly hollow” and that Democrats would spin a “torrent of lies” to distance her from the Biden administration’s immigration policy and other issues.
“In order for the American people to clearly recognize Harris, her record needs to be covered up,” he said.
Some of Trump’s allies, including some members of the “Black Americans for Trump” coalition, have warned that disparaging Harris could hurt the former president in reaching out to black voters, a key demographic in the Nov. 5 presidential election.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to DeSantis’ comments.
Campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu told MSNBC that Harris had “the greatest week in politics in the last 50 years.”
“It’s going to be a very close race,” he said.
Trump’s campaign fundraising got a boost in late May after he was convicted of felony charges related to making hush money to pornographic actresses ahead of the 2016 election, and an assassination attempt on him this month was also expected to spur campaign fundraising.
