Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign smashed all kinds of records in the first 48 hours, and the momentum—and record-breaking—hasn’t flagged since. The grassroots is energized. Small donors are swarming to her. Big donors are flocking to her and the whole tenor of this fight to save our democracy has been infused with hope and enthusiasm and plain-old fun.
The money continues to pour in—more than $130 million by mid-week primarily from small donors. That more than doubled the $96 million cash on hand the Biden-Harris campaign had at the end of June.
Where some of that money is coming from is even fun—all those campaign Zoom calls, each of which has broken previous participant and money records. It started with Win with Black Women on Sunday, with 44,000 participants and $1.6 million raised. Then on Monday, Win With Black Men built on that with over 40,000 participants, netting about $1.3 million.
On Thursday night, “White Women: Answer the Call” literally broke Zoom with 164,000 participants handing over more than $2 million in just an hour. Not to be outdone, White Dudes for Harris, who “aren’t going to sit around and let the MAGA crowd bully other white guys into voting for a hateful and divisive ideology” will have their call next Monday.
Since Sunday, more than 100,000 people have signed up to volunteer for the Harris campaign, and more than 2,000 people applied for campaign jobs by Wednesday. That includes 6,600 new sign-ups in Florida, 3,000 in Michigan, 4,000 in Pennsylvania, more than 1,300 in Arizona, and more than 1,000 in Wisconsin, ready to start knocking on doors this weekend.
Speaking of Wisconsin, Harris had her first rally there on Tuesday, and the response from attendees was so huge, it had to be moved to a larger venue.
Voter registrations spiked 700% on Vote.org in the first 48 hours of the campaign, led by a massive surge in young voters.
Harris got three more big endorsements, from Democratic congressional leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer on Tuesday, and the week was capped off by the most exciting endorsement (after President Joe Biden’s) from former president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama.
More national labor groups pledged their support to Harris, including “educators, construction workers, health care professionals, farmworkers, postal workers, service and public employees, as well as workers in communications, hospitality, nursing, transportation, utility and manufacturing,” a campaign press release said.
And finally, she still doesn’t have any criminal convictions.
Raised on Daily Kos: $587,143, but you can make that bigger!
