A race unlike any other is on and, if campaign contributions are any prediction, Vice President Kamala Harris will have plenty of support at the polls in November in her bid for president of the United States.
In less than a week, Harris’s campaign has raised $200 million.
The campaign’s latest fundraising totals released on Sunday, according to The Associated Press, said that 66 percent of donations were from first-time contributors in this year’s election and were made after President Joe Biden exited the race on the Democratic nomination.
Donations so far include $3 million from The White Dudes for Harris, which includes actors Mark Hamill, Jeff Bridges and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Netflix founder Reed Hastings donated $7 million.
The White Dudes for Harris held a Zoom fundraiser Monday night to garner further support for Harris. Entertainment Weekly reported that speakers included U.S. Director of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, actor Misha Collins, singer Josh Groban, singer and former NSYNC member Lance Bass and actors Bradley Whitford, Sean Astin and Josh Gad.
“The feeling that I have someone to so fully get behind, to be a cheerleader for, and to imagine standing there on Inauguration Day as I get to sit next to my daughters and listen to our first Madame President speak, that is the thing I want you all to imagine tonight. That is the thing that has brought us all here, and that is the thing that, unlike last time, we’re going to make sure happens,” Gad said during the fundraiser.
According to USA Today, more than 170,000 volunteers are signed up to help Harris’s campaign by phoning voters and canvassing.
“The momentum and energy for Vice President Harris is real — and so are the fundamentals of this race: this election will be very close and decided by a small number of voters in just a few states,” Harris campaign Communications Director Michael Tyler wrote in a memo.
Harris’s campaign held approximately 2,300 organizing events in battleground states this past weekend.
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Rebecca Barnabi
