According to a recent study, two-thirds of Harris’ supporters had not previously made contributions to Biden’s campaign or the Democratic National Committee this election cycle.
In the first 11 days of his leadership in the Democratic race, the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, managed to attract more than 2.4 million donorssurpassing by almost 200,000 the number of contributors who supported the president’s entire campaign Joe Biden before his retirement at the end of July.
This remarkable increase in the number of donors resulted in a fundraising of US$201,000,000 in individual contributions to his campaign and the Democratic Partyaccording to the most recent data from the Federal Electoral Commission.
US Elections: The shocking million-dollar figure raised by Kamala Harris in just eleven days
According to a Bloomberg analysis, roughly two-thirds of donors who supported Harris had not previously made contributions to the campaign. Biden nor to the Democratic National Committee in this election cycle.
Kamala Harris
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Harris experienced the largest increases in donors in the key states of Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Additionally, he received higher average donations across all states compared to Bidenwith a notable increase in Arizona.
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These data offer a first insight into the effectiveness of the restructuring of the campaign Harrisespecially after she set a new single-day fundraising record on July 21 after assuming the role of leading Democratic candidate.
The total number of donors may be even higher, as the analysis does not include direct contributions to joint fundraising committees, which report donations on a quarterly cycle.
Source: Ambito
