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WASHINGTON -- Vice President Kamala Harris ' run announced Friday that it raised $310 cardinal past month, an eyepopping sum showing that donors who erstwhile seemed spooked astir the prospects for November's predetermination with President Joe Biden are present offering mountains of currency to boost his erstwhile No. 2.
The haul by Harris, the Democratic National Committee and affiliated entities acold outpaced Republican erstwhile President Donald Trump, whose run and assorted committees said they took successful $138.7 cardinal for July.
The vice president's run besides says it entered August with $377 cardinal successful currency connected hand, which it described arsenic the astir for immoderate statesmanlike campaigner astatine this constituent successful the cycle. It was besides good supra the $327 cardinal Trump's squad announced having to commencement the month.
"The tremendous outpouring of enactment we've seen successful conscionable a abbreviated clip makes wide the Harris conjugation is mobilized, growing, and acceptable to enactment successful the enactment to decision Trump this November," Harris run manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said successful a statement. "Our wealth is going to the enactment that wins adjacent elections."
Trump's totals for July were augmented by an assassination effort against the erstwhile president during a rally successful Pennsylvania, which galvanized immoderate of his fiercest supporters, and by his consequent revealing of his moving mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, astatine the Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee.
Harris' team, meanwhile, is hoping for different jolt aboriginal adjacent week, erstwhile she's expected to denote her ain moving mate, and during the Democratic convention, which opens successful Chicago connected Aug. 19.
The figures released by some campaigns this week bash not see afloat Federal Elections Commission fillings, which volition travel aboriginal this month. That makes it hard to find however overmuch of Harris' haul came aft Biden announced connected July 21 that helium was abandoning his reelection bid and endorsing Harris.
That determination followed weeks of immoderate apical Democratic donors, arsenic good arsenic dozens of members of Congress, urging the 81-year-old president to measurement speech aft his dismal statement show connected June 27.
Still, Harris' squad had antecedently announced that it took successful much than $200 cardinal during her archetypal week arsenic a statesmanlike candidate, meaning that the lion's stock of July's beardown haul came aft the vice president took implicit the apical of the ticket. She is looking to reset the contention against Trump, stepping up her question docket and sharply criticizing the Republican nominee arsenic she leans much heavy into telling her idiosyncratic and nonrecreational story.
The vice president is acceptable to go her party's ceremonial statesmanlike nominee done virtual voting by Democratic normal delegates, acceptable to reason Monday.
Her run said that two-thirds of its July donations came from first-time contributors successful the 2024 predetermination cycle. In all, the period saw much than 3 cardinal donors marque much than 4.2 cardinal contributions - with much than 2 cardinal donors making their archetypal donation this cycle, portion 94% of July's donations were nether $200.
The run said 60% of its donors successful July were women arsenic Harris prepares to beryllium the archetypal pistillate of colour to beryllium nominated for president by a large governmental party.
Since her statesmanlike run began, Harris' fundraising has been bolstered by virtual fundraisers organized astir supporters of chiseled backgrounds including Black Women for Harris, Latinas for Harris and adjacent a White Dudes for Harris. Together they raised much than $20 million, her run said.
Fundraising aside, the Harris run said that by past play it had signed up 170,000 caller volunteers and held 2,300 events mobilizing thousands of supporters crossed battleground states.
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