Correction: Within seven hours of Harris’s Sunday campaign start, ActBlue donors gave a total of $47 million to all races. This article’s earlier version had false information. ActBlue, a Democratic fundraising website, revealed on Sunday that within seven hours of Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign start, small-dollar donors contributed roughly $47 million. Since Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launch, grassroots supporters had raised $46.7 million through ActBlue as of 9 p.m. ET. The 2024 cycle’s largest fundraising day has occurred today. ActBlue stated in an update shared on social media site X that “small-dollar donors are fired up and ready to take on this election.”
The amount represents not just donations made to the Harris campaign but also the total amount raised on the platform. Shortly before 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, President Biden declared that he would be withdrawing from the presidential contest and promptly endorsed and supported Harris. ActBlue had earlier reported that the platform had raised over $27.5 million from small donors in the first five hours of Harris’s campaign. According to the New York Times, Sunday was the largest single day for Democratic online donations since the 2020 election. According to the Times, ActBlue’s fundraising of over $73.5 million on the day following the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020 set the previous record. Following Biden’s decision, significant Democratic contributors are also endorsing Harris. In recent weeks, Trump has allegedly eaten into Biden’s financial advantage, and major contributors have reportedly frozen almost $90 million from the president’s reelection campaign in response to calls for his withdrawal.
Already a Powerhouse in Fundraising, Kamala Harris
Although Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign officially began on Sunday, the vice president has already achieved great success. Her previous public remarks have generated a lot of buzz in recent weeks regarding people falling out of coconut trees on social media; fans of well-known musicians have begun to support her candidacy; and in just one day, her campaign has received over $81 million in donations, according to a statement issued on Monday. A donation tracker updated every 15 minutes is available on ActBlue, the Democratic candidates’ internet fundraising tool. The sum raised as of Monday afternoon is stated to have exceeded $100 million for the week of tracking that started on Sunday, July 21, the day President Joe Biden formally declared the end of his reelection campaign and backed Vice President Harris. In less than two days of tracking, it’s already the highest weekly gross the party has had since contributions exceeded $121 million during the week before the 2020 election.
The Harris campaign is receiving funding from several sources in addition to the platform. Politico reports that Democratic backers have committed $150 million through Future Forward, the Biden-endorsed SuperPAC. Future Forward informed the source that it would “continue working to ensure Donald Trump is defeated in this election and those dangerous consequences are never felt by the American people.”
Biden withdraws from his 2024 rematch with Trump and ends his bid for a second term in the White House
According to the campaign, the number reflects community contributions made by “all entities, including ActBlue.” It was sent to Fox News Digital. Following Biden’s announcement on Sunday afternoon that he would withdraw from the 2024 race due to pressure from the Democratic Party, Harris declared her presidential campaign. The historic declaration was made in response to calls from a growing number of Democratic lawmakers for Biden to resign, and there were reports that the party’s leadership was trying to persuade the 81-year-old Biden that he would not be able to defeat former President Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee, in November’s general election. Biden won the White House four years prior.
Biden withdraws from his 2024 match with Trump and ends his bid for a second term in the White House. Immediately after Harris assumed the role of the party’s presidential nominee, Biden gave Harris his “full support and endorsement.” In a statement to the public, Biden said, “Serving as your president has been the greatest honor of my life.” “While I have intended to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term.”
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Because of the president’s support, other Democrats who were considering a presidential run may be discouraged, and the vice president may be able to take Biden’s place as the party’s nominee. More than 178 Democratic senators and representatives in the House and Senate have already endorsed Harris, as have more than six governors, including Kathy Hochul of New York and Gavin Newsom of California. Approximately two hours after Biden made her announcement, Harris made a statement stating that she was “honored to have the President’s endorsement, and I intend to earn and win this nomination.”
“I have traveled the nation over the past year, speaking with citizens about the obvious option in this historic election. And I’ll keep doing that in the days and weeks to come,” she continued. “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.” In a compliment to her employer, the vice president thanked Joe Biden “for his decades of service to our country and for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States. “He has accomplished so much that his legacy is unrivaled in contemporary American history, even surpassing that of several presidents who have held office for two terms.”