Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign has raised $200 million since she emerged because the possible Democratic presidential nominee final week, an eye-popping haul in her race in opposition to the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump.
The marketing campaign, which introduced its newest fundraising whole on Sunday, mentioned the majority of the donations—66%—comes from first-time contributors within the 2024 election cycle and have been made after President Joe Biden introduced his exit from the race and endorsed Harris.
Over 170,000 volunteers have additionally signed as much as assist the Harris marketing campaign with telephone banking, canvassing and different 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 just a few states,” Michael Tyler, the marketing campaign’s communications director, wrote in a memo.
Her marketing campaign mentioned it held some 2,300 organizing occasions in battleground states this weekend as a number of high-profile Democrats into account to function Harris’ working mate stumped for her.
Harris campaigned in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday, drawing lots of to a fundraiser that had been organized when Biden was nonetheless on the prime of the Democratic ticket. The fundraiser had initially been anticipated to lift $400,000 however ended bringing in about $1.4 million, in line with the marketing campaign.
Mandy Robbins, 45, of Decatur, Georgia, drove to a kind of organizing occasions Sunday within the northern suburbs of Atlanta to listen to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a possible Harris working mate.
She thought Biden did a “great job” within the White Home, however acknowledged she “would not have been nearly this excited” if he remained within the race.
“I finally feel hopeful now,” Robbins said. She added, “We can win this with Harris.”
Beshear spoke from expertise to supporters, telling them their work may very well be the distinction in what’s anticipated to be a detailed race. Beshear gained his 2019 marketing campaign by a margin of about 5,000 votes of 1.41 million ballots solid. He was reelected in November by a comparatively comfy margin.
“Every door knock mattered. Every phone call mattered. Every difficult conversation that people had with their uncle at Thanksgiving mattered,” Beshear mentioned of his 2019 race. “Everyone here today that signs up to volunteer … you might be the difference in winning this race for Vice President Harris.”
In the meantime, Trump, working mate Sen. JD Vance and their surrogates stepped up efforts to border Harris as a far-left politician out of contact with with the American mainstream.
Vance mentioned after a cease at a diner in Waite Park, Minnesota, on Sunday that Harris has “got a little bit of a bump from her introduction” however predicted it might quickly dissipate.
“Look, the people are going to learn her record,” Vance mentioned. “They’re going to learn that she’s a radical. They’re going to learn that she’s basically a San Francisco liberal who wants to take San Francisco policies to the entire country.”
Vance was echoing Trump, who in a marketing campaign look with Vance in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday, known as Harris a “crazy liberal,” and mentioned she was an “absolute radical” on abortion. Harris, a vocal proponent of abortion rights, has made clear that she is going to make Republican-backed efforts to limit reproductive rights a key plank in her marketing campaign.
“There is no liberal horse that she has chosen not to ride,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
On CNN’s “State of the Union.”Trump backer Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas additionally tried to model Harris as a full companion for “plenty of the worst choices of the Biden administration.”
Nonetheless, some Republicans are involved that Harris’ entrance has given Democrats a spark and that Trump must recalibrate.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu mentioned on ABC’s “This Week” that Harris is in a “honeymoon” interval that can in all probability final a month, however he additionally mentioned that each Trump and Vance ought to cease the non-public assaults in opposition to Harris as a result of these is not going to drive folks to vote. As a substitute, he mentioned they need to keep on with the problems and “stay away from the insults.”
He mentioned Trump missed a possibility to do this in latest marketing campaign occasions, however “hopefully they can get back on track.” Sununu, nevertheless, acknowledged that ”no one can get Donald Trump to do something” he would not wish to do.
“But hopefully the numbers, the polls, will get Donald Trump to realize what was working and what didn’t,” Sununu mentioned.
