Harris raised $200M in first week of White House campaign and signed up 170,000 volunteers

Kamala Harris’ campaign has brought in $200m since last week when she cemented as the Democratic presidential nominee, an impressive sum in her face-off against the Republican incumbent, ex-president Donald Trump. 
 
The campaign said it disclosed its largest voter fund raising round yet on Sunday, pointing out that 66% of total donations are from newcomers in the 2024 election cycle and made explicitly after President Joe Biden pulled out of the race and endorsed Kamala Harris. 
 
About 174,882 people are also committed phone banking, canvassing, and other voting mobilization initiatives for the Harris campaign. It’s one hundred days to the Election Day. 
 
“The momentum and energy for Vice President Harris is real — and so are the fundamentals of this race: The particular election is going to be very competitive and the voters will decide it with a slim margin and in a few state only,” said Michael Tyler, the campaign’s communications director in a memo. 
 
Her campaign disclosed that it conducted some 2,300 organizing events in the these states the weekend as some senior Democrats with big name being considered fit for the vice presidential slot campaigned for Harris. 
 
Harris stumped in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on Saturday at a fundraiser that was set when Biden was the head of the ticket. The fundraiser had been projected to raise $400,000 but the corporate event altogether managed to organize approximately $1. 4 million, this is according to the campaign’s statistics. 
 
Mandy Robbins, 45, of Decatur, Georgia, went to one of those organizing events Sunday in the northern suburbs of Atlanta to listen to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a possible Harris running mate. 
 
She believed that Biden performed a “good” job in the White House; however, she stated that she would not be this enthusiastic if Biden continued his contest. 
 
“I finally feel hopeful now,’ said Robbins. She also said, We can win this with Harris. 
 
Beshear addressed an atmosphere directly towards the supporters, which encouraged fellow Kentuckians saying that their vote may make the difference in what projects to be a rather close election. Incumbent Democratic governor Andy Beshear won his 2019 campaign by a margin of about 5,000 votes of 1. 41 million ballots cast. He was re-elected in November and the voice of win was a rather comfortable one for him. 
 
The target of his previous campaign in 2019 was the struggle and looking at it, he said, “every door knock mattered, every phone call mattered, every difficult conversation that people had with their uncle at Thanksgiving mattered. ” “You the person here today who signs up to volunteer …. .you just might be the reason that helps us win the race in support of Vice President Harris. ” 
 
On the same year Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and their allies escalated the attack on Harris as a radical liberal who is irrelevant to the median voter. 
 
Vance speaking to the press after having a diner in Waite Park, Minnesota on Sunday also noted that Harris has got a little bit of a bump from the introduction but this will die down in the near future. 
 
“Well, there you have it, the people are going to learn her record,” Vance said. “They are going to discover that she is a militant something. ” They are going to find out that she is practically the San Francisco liberal who wants to take San Francisco liberalism to all of America. 
 
Vance was mimicking Trump, who in a campaign with Vance held in St. Cloud, Minnesota on Saturday described Harris as a crazy liberal who wanted to disband the police and an absolute radical on issues of abortion. This self-professed defender of abortion rights showed that she will use any Republican attempts to limit women’s rights as a platform for her campaign. 
 
“It does not matter which liberal horse there is, she has declined not to board,” claimed Sen. Lindsey Graham, R. C. " 
 
Trump supporter Sen Tom Cotton, R-Ark. , also attempted to paint Harris as a co-equal to “own a lot of the worst choices of the Biden administration,” such as the disorderly withdrawal of U. S. forces in August that precipitated the instantaneous fail of the Afghan executive branch and security forces. 
 
Cotton also claimed that Harris supported the Iranian proxies of Hamas and Hezbollah by reminding the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the causality in the war in Gaza. 
 
Netanyahu met separately with Harris and Biden at the White House on Thursday. Later Harris encouraged Netanyahu to negotiate a cease fire deal with the Hamas as soon as possible so that tens of hostages detained in Gaza since October 7, 2015 can go back to their families. Harris stated she also stood for recognizing the right to self-defense in Israel but was quoted to have uttered serious concern over the large number of deaths in the Gaza Strip and ‘desperate’ situation in the region. 
 
Conflict in the Mideast rises high on Saturday after Israel announced the crash of a rocket which was fired from Lebanon on a soccer field in the occupied Golan highland left 12 youth dead. The strike sparked concerns of a more generalized conflict with Israel and Hezbollah, which refrained from involvement in the attack. 
 
Said Trump at his Saturday rally; the Golan Heights incident will go down in history as another moment made by a weak ineffective United States president and vice president And Vance on Sunday described Harris as a disaster on the conflict. 
 
However, there may be some Republicans worried that Harris’ entrance has lit a light for the Democrats and that Trump needs to re-strategise. 
 
Gov. Chris Sununu, R-N. H. opined that Harris is in the honeymoon period, which will likely end in a month, though he also opined that Trump and Vance should stop attacking Harris personally because people will not vote out of aggression. He urged them to focus on the topics and warned that, “We should leave the barbs behind us. ” 
 
He said Trump missed an opportunity to do that with recent campaign events, but “hopefully they can get back on track . ” Sununu, however, acknowledged that “nobody can get Donald Trump to do anything he does not want to do,” and that, at this stage of the process, “it’s all about him wanting to do it. ” 
 
“Hopefully, the numbers polls will bring Donald Trump what worked and what did not,” Sununu said 
 
Graham appeared on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’, Sununu on ABC’s ‘This Week’ show, while Cotton was on CNN’s ‘State of the Union. ’