Kamala Harris And Her Campaign Raised Over $200M In Record Week
The situation of the election seems to be quietly changing after Biden announced his withdrawal and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris became the potential Democratic presidential candidate.
Harris's campaign team said last Sunday that within a week of her becoming the Democratic presidential candidate, they had raised $200 million and recruited 170,000 new volunteers. The day after Biden withdrew from the race, she raised $81 million, which the campaign team said was the largest amount of fundraising by any candidate within 24 hours in history.
In the week since we got started, @KamalaHarris has raised $200 million dollars, 66% of that is from new donors. We've signed up 170,000 new volunteers. Harris's deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty, said in a post on X.
Co-chair of the campaign Mitch Landrieu said that Harris has had one of the best weeks that we've seen in politics in the last 50 years, and he believes Harris has the pulse of the nation in her hands.
At present, Harris has gained the support of enough delegates and is very likely to become the Democratic candidate. The Democratic National Convention will be held in Chicago from August 19th to 22nd.
It is reported that the Democratic Party plans to conduct online voting in early August to officially confirm the party's presidential candidate. Some reports say that in the first round of voting, the candidate needs the support of 1,976 delegates to win the nomination. According to a survey by the media, the number of Democratic National Convention delegates supporting Harris has reached 2,668.
After Biden's poor performance in the debate with Trump at the end of June, he withdrew from the campaign due to questions about his age and health. After Harris took over as the candidate, the momentum of the one-sided election seems to have changed. At the same time, Biden has promised to continue to serve as president until the end of his term on January 20, 2025.
Most polls in the past week show that Harris and Trump are currently evenly matched, laying the foundation for the November election.
A national poll released by The New York Times and Siena College last Thursday showed that Harris has narrowed Trump's huge lead, while a poll released by The Wall Street Journal last Friday showed that Trump only leads Harris by two percentage points. The Reuters/Ipsos poll released on July 23 showed that Harris was two percentage points ahead.