Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign said it has raised a staggering $200 million just a week since President Biden dropped out of the race.
By comparison, President Biden’s team $63.8 million In June as a whole, Donald Trump’s campaign $21.5 million last monthAccording to Federal Election Commission records.
Perhaps most importantly, the newly rebranded Harris presidential campaign claimed that 66% of its donations in the past week came from first-time donors in the 2024 election cycle.
“Although Vice President Harris has only been running for office for less than a week, she has already rallied the entire Democratic Party behind her campaign and the natural grassroots enthusiasm is producing results,” campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a memo.
There are now 100 days until election night on November 5th.
The campaign also claims that 170,000 new volunteers have joined its team and are planning 2,300 events in battleground states.
Biden’s campaign has reportedly struggled to attract donors after a disastrous debate performance with President Donald Trump last month, and the 81-year-old Biden dropped out of the race last week.
According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, Biden’s campaign ended June with just under $96 million in cash on hand, compared with Trump’s $128 million.
Harris’ campaign said last week that her $200 million figure did not include Biden’s contributions.
The Biden campaign outspent the Trump campaign by nearly six to one during June, but still ranked low in the polls that month.
Harris, 59, quickly secured the support of top Democrats after Biden withdrew, a historically unprecedented move.
Soon after, enough delegates endorsed her that she became the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
She must now quickly choose a running mate, after the Democratic National Committee’s rules committee voted to hold an online roll call to formally decide on the nominees before the party’s convention in Chicago next month.
The virtual roll call is expected to take place within the first week or so of August.
The latest national polls show Trump leading Harris by 1.8 percentage points. RealClearPolitics Count The election is a five-way race consisting of these two and an unpopular candidate.
“VP Harris’s momentum and energy are real, and so are the fundamentals of this race: this election will be very close and will be decided by a small number of voters in just a few states,” Tyler added in the memo.
