Kamala Harris’ campaign raised more money in two days than former President Donald Trump‘s campaign raised in June, the vice president’s team said.
As of Tuesday, just 48 hours after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris as the Democratic candidate, the campaign had raised $126 million, according to Wednesday’s state of the race memo from Harris for President Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon. Trump raised almost $112 million in June, Politico reported.
The Democratic campaign has often outraised Trump’s, except in April and May. In May, Trump’s conviction in his hush money concealment trial in New York inspired so many donations that WinRed, the main donation platform for the former president and Republicans, crashed.
The assassination attempt on Trump, when a shooter tried to kill him at a rally on July 13, may have the same effect in terms of spurring large donations. The shooting left Trump with an ear injury, while one rally-goer was killed and two others seriously wounded before Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot dead by Secret Service agents.
In Dillon’s email, posted on X, formerly Twitter, by Spectrum News DC’s National Political reporter Taylor Popielarz, she claimed that Team Harris raising more than $81 million in the 24 hours after Biden’s endorsement was “the most in a 24-hour period in the history of presidential politics.
“From day one, the Biden-Harris campaign has not only been prepared to win a close election, it has been designed to win a close election. Vice President Harris will now inherit that robust campaign operation.”
She ended the email, which called Trump’s politics “extremism” and focused heavily on reproductive rights, with: “Bottom line: This campaign will be close, it will be hard fought, but Vice President Harris is in a position of strength – and she’s going to win.”
Harris is yet to be officially named the Democratic nominee, but she appears to have secured enough delegates to win her party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention next month.
In general, Harris’ poll numbers continue to trail Trump’s, as Biden’s did, but some polls released since Biden’s withdrawal have seen the race tighten.
In the seven most competitive battleground states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—Trump still leads, although a recent Civiqs poll, conducted among 514 registered voters from July 13 to July 16, showed the candidates tied.
Newsweek has contacted Trump’s team via email for comment.
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