The Harris campaign revealed on Sunday that, following Vice President Kamala Harris‘ speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, it and its supporters had raised a total of forty million dollars.
With this windfall, the campaign claims that since President Joe Biden withdrew his endorsement of the vice president on July 21, $540 million has been raised for Harris’s election campaign.
Since September 20 is when the next set of Federal Election Commission data becomes public, NBC News is unable to independently verify the numbers.
Campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote a memo stating that one-third of last week’s donations came from individuals who were making their first-time contribution. She also mentioned that the campaign and its allies experienced “our best fundraising hour since launch day” immediately following Harris’s Thursday night speech.
According to O’Malley Dillon, the fundraising figures are a culmination of contributions made by the Democratic National Committee, the Harris campaign, and joint fundraising groups.
She described the convention as a “galvanizing moment,” stating that the campaign was “Between now and Election Day, Trump will communicate nonstop with voters in battleground states, taking no voters for granted. Meanwhile, his main focus will be on throwing tantrums on social media and disparaging those who are vital to securing 270 electoral votes.”
O’Malley Dillon stated that volunteers supporting Harris’s candidacy had committed to “nearly 200,000 shifts since Monday,” indicating that this has been their “largest organizing week since the campaign’s inception.”
The statement is made just before Harris and her campaign companion, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, leave for a bus tour of Georgia on Wednesday. Following the cancellation of her scheduled visit earlier this month due to Tropical Storm Debby, Harris is scheduled to hold a rally in Savannah on Thursday.
At the Democratic National Convention, speaker after speaker pushed attendees to support Harris’ election campaign.
In a stirring speech on Tuesday night, former First Lady Michelle Obama declared, “We must get up, splash some water on our faces, and take action if we begin to feel worn out or if fear begins to resurface!”
“Come with me in dedicating your entire being to this endeavor—that’s my heart will be there,” Biden declared on the first night of the conference.
According to last month’s campaign finance disclosures, the Democratic presidential campaign raised $204 million in July. Prior to withdrawing from the contest on July 21 and endorsing Harris, Biden was the front-runner.
ActBlue, a company that handles internet donations for Democrats, provided data indicating that Harris’s campaign raised close to $40 million on the day that Biden withdrew from the contest.
Despite having one of its finest months to date, the campaign of former president Donald Trump brought up $47.5 million in July—less than a quarter of what its rival was able to raise—according to a campaign finance report.