Kamala Harris' campaign team announced yesterday (July 28) that they have raised up to $200 million or about 7,168 million baht in donations and increased the number of campaign volunteers by 170,000 people in just one period. Weeks after the announcement of the Democratic nominee to replace President-elect Joe Biden, Republicans continue to attack Harris' performance as vice president.
Biden dropped out of the race on July 21 and announced his support for Harris as the party's next nominee to run against former President Donald Trump for the Republican Party on November 5.
“In the first week we launched @KamalaHarris and we raised $200 million, 66% of which came from new donors. We also had an additional 170,000 people join us as volunteers. Rob Flaherty, Harris' deputy campaign manager, sent a message via X
A Reuters/Ipsos poll last week showed Harris and Trump neck and neck in approval ratings. That’s what makes the campaigning in the final 100 days before the US presidential election. And it should get more and more violent.
The Trump campaign announced in early July that it had raised $331 million in donations in the second quarter, surpassing the $264 million raised by Biden's team in the same period.
The Trump campaign had $284.9 million in cash at the end of June, while Biden's team had $240 million.
Harris has received pledges of support from a majority of Democratic delegates, and she is likely to be named the party's official delegate to next month's Democratic National Convention.
“Because the vice president is the party’s presumptive representative. We will have a formal vote on August 1,” said Jamie Harrison, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In an interview with MSNBC on Sunday (28)
Polling shows Trump leading Biden in the battleground states after Biden’s disastrous debate performance on June 27. But Harris’s entry into the race changes that dynamic.
A national New York Times/Siena College poll released Thursday showed Harris’s popularity fading. While a Wall Street Journal poll released Friday (26) showed Trump with a two-point lead over Harris, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on February 23 gave Harris a two-point lead over Trump.
Harris, the first South Asian woman and black vice president in U.S. history, has increasingly been targeted by Republicans. She has risen to become the presumptive Democratic Party representative. One such attack came from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Speaking to Fox News, Harris called Harris “incredibly boring” and predicted that Democrats would “put together a bunch of lies” to make it seem as though Harris is uninvolved in immigration policy and other problems created by the Biden administration.
“They should try to whitewash Harris’s record,” DeSantis said, “to make her look better in the eyes of the American people.”
However, some Trump allies, including members of the Black Americans for Trump coalition, have warned that the rhetoric against Harris could hurt Trump’s popularity among black voters, a key demographic in the Nov. 5 election.
Source: Reuters
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