Vice President Kamala Harris The campaign has raised $200 million since she emerged as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee last week, a blistering run in her race against the Republican nominee, the former president. Donald Trump.
The campaign, which announced its latest fundraising totals on Sunday, said the majority of donations — 66% — came from early contributors in the 2024 election cycle and were made after President Joe Biden. announced his exit from the race and approved Harris.
More than 170,000 volunteers have also signed up to help the Harris campaign with phone banking, canvassing and other get-out-the-vote efforts. Election day is 100 days away.
“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 a few states,” Michael Tyler, director of communications for the countryside he wrote in a memo.
Her campaign said it held about 2,300 organizing events in battleground states this weekend, as several high-profile Democrats are considering serving as Harris’ stumped running mate for her.
Harris lived in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday, draw hundreds to a fundraiser which had been organized when Biden was still at the top of the Democratic ticket. The fundraiser was originally expected to raise $400,000, but ended up bringing in about $1.4 million, according to the campaign.
Mandy Robbins, 45, of Decatur, Georgia, drove to one of those organizing events Sunday in the northern suburbs of Atlanta to hear from Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a potential running mate of Harris.
She thought Biden did a “great job” at the White House, but acknowledged that she “wouldn’t have been as excited” if he had stayed in the race.
“I finally feel hopeful now,” Robbins said. She added: “We can win this with Harris.”
Beshear spoke from experience to supporters, saying his work could be the difference in what is expected to be a close race. Beshear won his 2019 campaign by a margin of about 5,000 votes out of 1.41 million votes cast. He was re-elected in November by a relatively comfortable margin.
“Every knock on the door mattered. Every phone call mattered. Every difficult conversation people had with their uncle at Thanksgiving mattered,” Beshear said of his 2019 run. “Everyone here today who is signing up to volunteer… you can be the difference in winning this race for Vice President Harris.”
Meanwhile, Trump, running mate Sen. JD Vance and his surrogates have stepped up efforts to frame Harris as a far-left politician out of touch with the American mainstream.
Vance said after a stop at a diner in Waite Park, Minn., on Sunday that Harris has “a little bit of a bump since his introduction,” but he expected it to dissipate soon.
“Look, people are going to learn his record,” Vance said. “They’re learning that she’s a radical. They’re learning that she’s basically a liberal from San Francisco who wants to take San Francisco policies across the country.”
Vance echoed Trump, who in a campaign appearance with Vance in St. Cloud, Minn., on Saturday called Harris a “crazy liberal” and said she was an “absolute radical” on abortion. vocal defender of abortion rightshas made it clear that she will make Republican-backed efforts to limit reproductive rights a key plank in her campaign.
“There is no liberal horse that he chose not to ride,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
On CNN’s “State of the Union.” Trump’s supporter, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, also tried to brand Harris as a full partner for “many of the worst decisions of the Biden administration.”
However, some Republicans are concerned that Harris’ entry has given Democrats a spark and that Trump needs to recalibrate.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said on ABC’s “This Week” that Harris is on a “honeymoon” period that will likely last a month, but also said Trump and Vance must stop the attacks personal against Harris because those don’t drive. The people to vote, on the other hand, said that they have to stay at the problems and “stay away from the insults”.
He said Trump missed an opportunity to do that in the last few events of the campaign, but “hopefully they can get back on track.” Sununu, however, acknowledged that “no one can make Donald Trump do something” that he does not want to do.
“But I hope the numbers, the polls, make Donald Trump understand what worked and what didn’t,” Sununu said.
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