Small-dollar donors contributed nearly $47 million on ActBlue in the seven hours after Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign Sunday afternoon, the Democratic fundraising platform announced. This amount represents the total raised on the platform, not just donations to Harris’s campaign.
President Joe Biden announced on July 21 that he would be stepping aside in the presidential race, endorsing Harris. ActBlue also reported raising over $27.5 million in the first five hours of Harris’s campaign.
The New York Times noted that Sunday was the largest day for online Democratic donations since the 2020 election, surpassing the previous record set the day after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death in September 2020, when ActBlue raised about $73.5 million.
Key Democratic donors are now backing Harris following Biden’s decision.
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