MILWAUKEE (NewsNation) — Vice President Kamala Harris has shattered fundraising records, raising implicit $81 cardinal successful the archetypal 24 hours aft launching her statesmanlike bid and raking successful much than $100 cardinal implicit the past 2 days.
“The historical outpouring of enactment for Vice President Harris represents precisely the benignant of grassroots vigor and enthusiasm that wins elections,” run spokesperson Kevin Munoz said successful a statement. “Already, we are seeing a wide and divers conjugation travel unneurotic to enactment our captious enactment of talking to the voters that volition determine this election.”
The $81 cardinal is the highest single-day fundraising full ever recorded by a candidate, and astir $30 cardinal much than erstwhile President Donald Trump raked successful aft his felony condemnation earlier this year.
Nearly a cardinal grassroots donors besides made donations implicit the past 24 hours, with 60% of them being caller contributors for the 2024 predetermination cycle.
One of the biggest Democratic ace governmental enactment committees, Future Forward, announced a staggering $150 cardinal raised wrong 24 hours, coming from donors antecedently "hesitant" and "undecided."
Hundreds of delegates person besides pledged their support to Harris up of adjacent month’s Democratic National Convention successful Chicago.
Altogether, Harris' full warfare thorax is astir a 4th of a cardinal dollars.
Harris has yet to prime her moving mate, but whoever she picks could clasp a batch of value with voters. Harris volition marque her archetypal statesmanlike run halt successful Milwaukee aft President Joe Biden bowed retired of the contention implicit the weekend.
The Hill contributed to this report.