Vice President Kamala Harris’ election campaign has raised $200 million after Joe Biden withdrew as a presidential candidate a week ago Sunday.
The campaign itself announces this on the social media x Sunday, when there are 100 days to the presidential election.
200 million dollars corresponds to almost 1.4 billion kroner.
“Since we started a week ago, Kamala Harris has raised $200 million,” writes Rob Flaherty, who is deputy campaign manager for Harris, on the social media X.
“66 percent of that is from new donors. We have registered over 170,000 new volunteers’.
The Harris campaign, according to the news agency dpa, calls the numbers ‘further proof of the amazing grassroots support’ for her among Democrats.
By comparison, Republican candidate Donald Trump’s campaign announced in early July that it had raised more than $331 million in the entire second quarter.
That was slightly above the Biden campaign’s $264 million in the same period.
Polls over the past week have shown that Harris and Donald Trump are very close.
Trump leads narrowly in most polls, according to an overview from RealClearPolitics.
81-year-old Biden decided a week ago to withdraw from the fight to be re-elected to the White House after a month of increasing pressure.
Instead, he endorsed Harris as a presidential candidate. She has since secured the support of the majority of the delegates at the Democratic convention, which is why she will most likely officially become the party’s nominee for the presidential election.
In particular, a televised debate on June 27 against Donald Trump had a great impact on the end of Biden’s hopes for re-election to the post of President of the United States.
After the debate, Biden was criticized for appearing incoherent, insecure and affected by his age.
However, Biden has pledged to remain in office as president until his term ends on January 20, 2025.
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Source: politiken.dk
