Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign said Sunday that it had raised $540 million since she launched her presidential bid just over a month ago.
That’s a record for any campaign in history for this time span, according to Harris’ team.
The campaign saw a surge of grassroots donations during last week’s Democratic National Convention, raking in $82 million. The hour following Harris’ speech on the final night of the convention was the campaign’s best fundraising hour since launch day.
Harris’ team said a third of last week’s donations were from first-time contributors, two-thirds of whom were women. Teaching and nursing continue to be among the most common occupations for donors, the campaign said.
The campaign also had its biggest week of organizing, with nearly 200,000 volunteers signing up for shifts since Monday.
Heading into Labor Day, the campaign plans to build on the momentum by “taking no voters for granted and communicating relentlessly with battleground voters every single day between now and Election Day – all the while Trump is focused on very little beyond online tantrums and attacking the voters critical to winning 270 electoral votes.”
Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will kick off a bus tour in Georgia on Wednesday, their first time campaigning in the state together, underscoring the campaign’s focus on the key battleground. The vice president is also set to host a rally in Savannah on Thursday to “speak directly to Georgians about the stakes of this election.”
