Associated Press
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign announced Friday that it raised $310 million last month, an eye-popping sum showing donors who once seemed spooked about the prospects for November’s election with President Joe Biden are now offering mountains of cash to boost his former No. 2.
The haul by Harris, the Democratic National Committee and affiliated entities far outpaced Republican former President Donald Trump, whose campaign and assorted committees said they took in $138.7 million for July.
The Vice President’s campaign also says it entered August with $377 million in cash on hand, which it described as the most for any presidential candidate at this point in the cycle. It was also well above the $327 million Trump’s team announced having to start the month.
“The tremendous outpouring of support we’ve seen in just a short time makes clear the Harris coalition is mobilized, growing, and ready to put in the work to defeat Trump this November,” Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement. “Our money is going to the work that wins close elections.”
Trump’s totals for July were augmented by an assassination attempt against the former President during a rally in Pennsylvania, which galvanized some of his fiercest supporters, and by his subsequent revealing of his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Harris’ team, meanwhile, is hoping for another jolt early next week, when she’s expected to announce her own running mate, and during the Democratic convention, which opens in Chicago on Aug. 19.
The figures released by both campaigns this week do not include full Federal Elections Commission fillings, which will come later this month. That makes it difficult to determine how much of Harris’ haul came after Biden announced on July 21 that he was abandoning his reelection bid and endorsing Harris.
That decision followed weeks of some top Democratic donors, as well as dozens of members of Congress, urging the 81-year-old president to step aside after his dismal debate performance on June 27.
Still, Harris’ team had previously announced that it took in more than $200 million during her first week as a presidential candidate, meaning the lion’s share of July’s strong haul came after the Vice President took over the top of the ticket. She is looking to reset the race against Trump, stepping up her travel schedule and sharply criticizing the Republican nominee as she leans more heavily into telling her personal and professional story.
The Vice President is set to become her party’s formal presidential nominee through virtual voting by Democratic convention delegates, set to conclude Monday.
Her campaign said that two-thirds of its July donations came from first-time contributors in the 2024 election cycle. In all, the month saw more than 3 million donors make more than 4.2 million contributions — with more than 2 million donors making their first donation this cycle, while 94% of July’s donations were under $200.
The campaign said 60% of its donors in July were women as Harris prepares to be the first woman of color to be nominated for president by a major political party.
Since her presidential campaign began, Harris’ fundraising has been bolstered by virtual fundraisers organized around supporters of distinct backgrounds including Black Women for Harris, Latinas for Harris and even a White Dudes for Harris. Together they raised more than $20 million, her campaign said.
Fundraising aside, the Harris campaign said that by last weekend it had signed up 170,000 new volunteers and held 2,300 events mobilizing thousands of supporters across battleground states.
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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
15 comments
Abel Obile Omale
August 2, 2024 at 8:24 am
Dropped waivers.
Larry Gillis, Libertarian (Cape Coral)
August 2, 2024 at 8:54 am
Both of the nominees believe in maximum use of the Government as our first response to perceived problems.
Let the People decide things for themselves, in the free marketplace.
Vote LIBERTARIAN. https://www.lp.org
Ninety Three
August 2, 2024 at 9:02 am
Jobs report for July was disappointing.
Unemployment is at its highest mark since October 2021.
Kammy still hasn’t had a press conference.
Demo’s will hide her like they did Biden.
She will have to defend her record and positions at some point.
Of course she is flip flopping on many issues.
Will the real Ka Mana please stand up. Please stand up.
Tom
August 2, 2024 at 10:54 am
So … vote for your boy trump then. Doesn’t matter what you throw at Harris / Biden, trump will always be worse and every time he opens his mouth, he just keeps digging himself further into a hole.
Ninety Three
August 2, 2024 at 11:33 am
Looks like “Bidenomics” has finally taken hold. Check out the stock market today. Look at the new job numbers. Look at unemployment. Now will the media, your party, claim none of this is Harris’ fault? Just like the Southern Border. She will have to answer questions at some point. She can run but she can’t hide.
Tom
August 2, 2024 at 1:54 pm
You know what the Federal Reserve is I assume? You know it’s not the President who controls the markets right? I assume when you’re not playing on this web site, you watch your finances and took profits in mid July like everyone else? Either way, your post did remind me to change from Republican back to unaffiliated – I tried to help you by changing parties and voting for Nikki Haley in the primaries but that went nowhere so … back to whence I came.
Ninety Three
August 2, 2024 at 9:47 am
Just watched her latest word salad delivered with Slo Joe on her side. She is simply incapable of thinking on her feet and putting a coherent message together without script. Yet somehow the zombies portray her as the messiah. Amazing
Ocean Joe
August 2, 2024 at 9:58 am
She’s no messiah, but all you have is the border and inflation. On the border, your fuhrer told Republicans to trash their own bill because it would help Biden. A bi-partisan bill led by Lankford flushed down the toilet because somebody put himself over country as usual.
On inflation, the GOP complains but offers no real solutions. A massive increase in military spending and a giant tax cut for the wealthy and corporations isnt going to solve anything.
So Kamala represents the party that passed an infrastructure bill which is repairing roads and bridges while GOP legislators who ALL voted against it take credit for it anyway. Sometimes the refusal of Republicans in office to do anything constructive gets old. Instead you give us all this fringe nonsense and delve into folks’ personal lives and push religion. So the choice looks like 2024 vs. 1954 all over again. It will win you the south for sure.
Ninety Three
August 2, 2024 at 1:58 pm
Don’t forget foreign policy. Don’t forget crime. Don’t forget the defund the po,ice movement. Looks like you forgot that Joe had the House and Senate when he first took over yet pressed on with his open border policy anyway, and a fine job by Ka Mana on that assignment as well. Of course she had nothing to do with that……………Now.
PeterH
August 2, 2024 at 9:57 am
The choice is quite simply between a highly respected prosecutor and a twice impeached convicted felon liar whose hypocritical running mate is far from ready for prime time. Think Sarah Palin with a beard.
Independent voters decide elections and this independent vote says Kamala Harris & Josh Shapiro will win in November.
Michael K
August 2, 2024 at 10:10 am
Vice President Harris is leading with excitement and enthusiasm from small donors and an army of new volunteers The Kamalanomenon is the generational change we’ve been waiting for. She’s attracting a wide swath of voters excited and committed to move this country forward.
Her Vice-Presidential pick will be announced shortly, and the Convention will further energize the nation.
The return of Russian hostages shows that Biden-Harris is a strong partnership on the world stage. Harris’ campaign stands in stark contrast to the same old tired, and pathetic playbook of her opponent. We look forward to his final defeat in November.
Patriotic Peggy
August 2, 2024 at 12:18 pm
I can’t wait until Project 2025 takes hold and we can enslave black people again, execute homos, and put all the Democrats in work camps. It will be wonderful.
Ninety Three
August 2, 2024 at 12:26 pm
Show me where this is on the Republican platform. More BS that you probably got from watching The View.
otoh
August 3, 2024 at 11:13 am
Ninety Three: You are overreacting. Peggy did not say anything in her hyperbolic comment was actually on the Republican platform —or meant to be taken literally. I can’t say I don’t think it’s on a few southern MAGA minds.
PeterH
August 2, 2024 at 2:13 pm
Peggy’s post should be deleted. Project 2025 is miserable but let’s not add to the confusion by posting conspiratorial misinformation about the document’s contents. POLITICO magazine has a comprehensive look at this blueprint for today’s conservative vision for America.
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