Vice President Kamala Harris raised a staggering $310 million in July, her campaign announced Friday morning, touting it as “the largest fundraising effort of the 2024 election cycle.”
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s fundraising total is more than double the $138.7 million he raised last month, his campaign said on Thursday.
Harris has enjoyed a surge in fundraising in the 12 days since President Biden ended his reelection campaign with a much-advertised announcement, endorsing his vice president as his successor as the Democratic Party’s top candidate.
The embattled president’s swift endorsement of Harris led to a wave of endorsements from Democratic governors, senators, representatives and other party leaders. Within 36 hours, Harris announced she had secured the party’s nomination, with verbal endorsements from a majority of the roughly 4,000 delegates attending this month’s Democratic National Convention.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally in Atlanta, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Harris’ campaign released its July fundraising numbers, highlighting the more than $200 million raised during the vice president’s first week in office on Biden’s behalf. The campaign called it the “biggest week in fundraising history” and touted July as the “biggest grassroots fundraising month in presidential history.”
The Harris campaign said two-thirds of its monthly contributions were coming from first-time donors, and also highlighted its massive fundraising total of $377 million as of the end of July.
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The July fundraising by the group that started as the Biden campaign and quickly morphed into the Harris campaign has eclipsed the robust $127 million the Biden-Harris campaign raised in June, with nearly $40 million of that coming at the end of the month after Biden’s brutal loss to Trump in the June 27 debate.
Donors initially gave large sums to Biden after the debate as a show of support for the 81-year-old president.
President Biden and former President Trump held a debate in Atlanta, Georgia on June 27, 2024. (Getty Images)
But Biden’s staggering and shaking during the debate quickly stoked questions about his physical and mental ability to serve another four years in the White House and sparked growing calls from within his own party for the president to give up on a second term in the White House. The temporary surge in fundraising was short-lived, and by early July it had begun to slow significantly.
Meanwhile, Trump’s income in July was more than $25 million more than the $112 million the former president made in June.
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The Trump campaign also reported having $327 million in cash on hand as of the end of July, and said in a statement that “these figures reflect continued momentum from donors at all levels, providing funding for the remaining 96 days until victory on November 5th.”
In a social media post hours later, Trump addressed his fundraising, calling it “amazing support from great American patriots donating to my campaign for President of the United States.”
Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump dances at the end of a campaign rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Harris’ campaign has highlighted the surge in fundraising since the vice president replaced Biden as the top candidate.
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Earlier last week, Harris’ campaign boasted that it had raised $81 million within 24 hours of Biden announcing he was suspending his campaign.
The amount raised in one day easily eclipsed the roughly $53 million that former President Trump took in in the first 24 hours after he was convicted of 34 felony counts in a criminal trial in New York City.
Former President Trump (left) attends a rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 20, 2024. Vice President Harris (right) addresses the NCAA championship team on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC. (Left: Bill Pagliano/Getty Images, Right: Ting Sheng/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Biden campaign and the DNC had a fundraising lead over Trump and the RNC earlier this year, but in the second quarter of 2024, from April to June, Trump and the RNC outraised Biden and the DNC, $331 million to $264 million.
Fundraising, along with opinion polls, is a key indicator of election activity and a measure of a candidate’s popularity and the strength of a campaign. Money raised is used to hire staff, expand grassroots and get-out-the-vote activities, create and place advertising on television, radio, digital and mail, and for candidate travel.
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