Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign says it had one of many strongest fundraising months in presidential historical past, elevating $310 million in July and coming into August with $377 million money readily available.
The Harris marketing campaign’s self-reported numbers surpass these launched yesterday by the Trump marketing campaign and its licensed committees, which netted nearly $139 million in July and ended the month with $327 million within the financial institution.
Each candidates endured a completely unprecedented month that turbocharged their fundraising.
Within the span of simply over every week, Trump was the goal of an assassination try and formally turned the GOP’s presidential nominee on the Republican Nationwide Conference, whereas President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and endorsed Harris as his successor.
The Harris marketing campaign stated it raised $200 million in its first week. For comparability, the Biden-Harris marketing campaign introduced in $127 million throughout all the month of June, and Trump’s marketing campaign raised slightly below $112 million.
The assassination try in opposition to Trump, nonetheless, didn’t give him his finest fundraising month so far. That occurred in Might following the responsible verdict in Trump’s hush cash trial, when Trump’s candidate committee and affiliated teams raised $141 million.
The Harris marketing campaign claims July was the most effective grassroots fundraising month in presidential historical past. Based on the marketing campaign, two-thirds of its contributions got here from first-time donors, and practically 94% have been underneath $200. The marketing campaign reported having over 3 million particular person donors, rivaling Trump’s small-dollar fundraising military.
“This can be a history-making haul for a candidate who will make historical past this November,” Harris marketing campaign supervisor Julie Chavez Rodriguez stated in an announcement.
Fundraising guidelines allowed Harris to seamlessly assume management of the joint Biden-Harris committee after Biden exited the race July 21, whereas one other candidate would have wanted to start from scratch. A few of July’s fundraising predated her being on the prime of the ticket.
Trump’s marketing campaign on Thursday stated its July numbers “replicate continued momentum with donors at each stage and supply the sources for the ultimate 96 days till victory November fifth.”
