The team of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced on Sunday that it had raised more than half a billion dollars since the start of her campaign a month ago.
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The American vice president, who joined the race for the White House on July 21 by replacing Joe Biden at short notice, was sworn in this week in Chicago during a euphoric Democratic Convention.
“Just before Vice President Harris’ speech on Thursday night, we officially passed the $500 million mark,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, her campaign manager, said in a memo released to reporters.
The total now stands at 540 million, she said, adding that it was a “record for any campaign in history” – without specifying on what period she was basing her comparison.
“Immediately after his speech, we had our best hour of fundraising” of the campaign, Mr.me O’Malley Dillon.
In the same note, she underscores the importance of small donors, specifying that “one third” of the donations recorded during the week of the Democratic convention came “from first-time donors.” These figures concern donations to various structures that finance the national campaign.
Within 24 hours of Biden announcing his withdrawal and support for his vice president, Democrats had raised $81 million. A radical change in momentum after the Democrats were in a slump in early July, following Biden’s disastrous performance in the debate against Donald Trump at the end of June.
The Republican candidate’s campaign had declared at the beginning of August that it had some 327 million dollars at its disposal, three months before an American election where these hundreds of millions of dollars are needed, in particular, to finance the broadcasting of political advertising on television.
