Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign enjoyed a mind-boggling $200 million fundraising bonanza in just under a week after President Biden dropped out of the race, according to her team.
By comparison, President Biden’s team took in $63.8 million in the entire month of June, and Donald Trump’s camp netted $21.5 million last month, Federal Election Commission records show.
Perhaps most significantly, the newly rebranded Harris for President campaign claimed that 66% of those donations from the past week stem from first-time contributors during the 2024 cycle.
“Vice President Harris has been a candidate for less than a week, but she’s already coalesced the entire Democratic Party around her campaign and the organic, grassroots enthusiasm is producing results,” said Michael Tyler, the campaign’s communications director, in a memo.
There are now 100 days left until election night Nov. 5.
The campaign also claims that 170,000 new volunteers have joined the team and that it is planning 2,300 events across the battleground states.
There had been reports of President Biden’s campaign struggling to woo donors after his dismal debate performance against Donald Trump last month. Biden, 81, dropped out of the race last week.
Biden’s campaign ended June with just shy of $96 million cash on hand compared to Trump’s $128 million, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.
Harris’s $200 million figure for last week does not include Biden funds, her campaign said.
The Biden team had outspent Trump nearly six to one during the month of June and was still down in the polls that month.
Harris, 59, quickly locked up support from top Democrats after Biden dropped out and endorsed her in a historically unprecedented move.
Soon thereafter, she became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president after sufficient delegates came out in support of her.
Now she must quickly select a running mate. The Democratic National Committee’s rules panel voted to hold a virtual roll call to crown their nominee officially before the convention in Chicago next month.
That virtual roll call is expected to take place within the first week or so of August.
Trump has a 1.8 percentage point lead over Harris nationally in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate of a five-way race involving the pair and less popular candidates.
“The momentum and energy for Vice President Harris is 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,” Tyler added in the memo.
