Kamala Harris’ path to the Democratic presidential nomination has encouraged donations to her campaign. By late Monday, less than 48 hours after President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the race, the vice president had already raised over $100 million. According to the progressive consultancy MiddleSeat, it is the best fundraising effort in the history of the Democratic party.
Multimillionaire donors aside, her success is largely due to the group of women donors who for decades have accompanied her in her career, advancing with her. Even as Harris continued to insist that Biden would be the party’s nominee, these loyal allies began acting to ensure that her campaign would not start from scratch. This amount is added to the $96 million that Joe Biden’s campaign had already accumulated, and which a handful of Republicans will try to block in order to hinder the campaign efforts of the current vice president, since they consider that giving her automatic access would violate the rules of the game.
The Republican nominee, Donald Trump, declared having raised more than $50 million in the 24 hours that followed his conviction for the hush-money trial on May 30. At the end of March, Biden reaped more than $25 million in a single event in New York, and $38 million in the four days after his disastrous performance at the debate between him and Trump on June 27. But the absolute record is now held by Kamala Harris , who has been supported by important donors from Wall St.