This significant fundraising haul sets a new benchmark for early campaign contributions and has been accumulated in just the four weeks since she entered the presidential race on July 21, according to four unnamed sources connected to her fundraising apparatus who spoke to Reuters. News of the record-breaking fundraising numbers comes midway through the Democratic National Convention (DNC), where party luminaries and a sycophantic corporate media establishment are driving an upsurge of support for Harris, who just prior to her boss’s exit from the race had the lowest approval rating of any vice president in history.Vice President Kamala Harris has raised approximately $500 million within the first month of her campaign as the Democratic presidential candidate, according to sources close to her election effort.
“What media bias?” pic.twitter.com/80u5iFQRoT During the first week of her campaign, Harris raised $200 million, largely through the left-leaning fundraising platform ActBlue, which, like its Republican counterpart WinRed, has faced allegations of money-laundering in the past. Harris’s July fundraising numbers show an additional $310 million raised, bringing the combined total raised by her campaign and President Joe Biden's efforts before his withdrawal to more than $1 billion, according to Reuters. Two unnamed sources told NBC News that the substantial sum includes donations raised through the campaign itself and other fundraising entities “more broadly affiliated” with Harris’s election effort. On the first day of the DNC, ActBlue announced it raised $12.9 million for the Harris campaign.
— Sophie Louise Delquié (@SophieDelquie) August 12, 2024
On the first day of #DemConvention, Democrats raised nearly $13 million across ActBlue's platform, raising the most between 10:00 PM and Midnight ET ($2.37 million) when speakers like Sec. Clinton, Sen. Warnock, Rep. AOC, First Lady Jill Biden, and Pres. Biden took the stage. pic.twitter.com/cpl7ievMGD The platform’s second-day total surpassed $16.4 million.
— ActBlue (@actblue) August 20, 2024
Day two of #DemConvention proved America is ready for a new chapter, and ready for President Kamala Harris. Nearly $16.5 million was raised across our platform yesterday, with our busiest hour being 11:00 PM ET following former President Obama’s incredible address. pic.twitter.com/Ga7ztd7owC Big money donors are breaking out their checkbooks for both Harris’s and former President Donald Trump’s campaigns. Trump’s top donor is billionaire Timothy Mellon, who has given $115 million in support of Trump’s campaign, Forbes reported. Other top billionaire donors to the former president include Linda McMahon, wife of wrestling mogul Vince McMahon; energy executive Kelcy Warren; ABC Supply founder Diane Hendricks; oil billionaire Timothy Dunn and well-known conservative donors Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein. Billionaire donors backing Harris include LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and philanthropist Melinda French Gates.
— ActBlue (@actblue) August 21, 2024
