Kamala Harris brings in over $540 million in donations, breaking fundraising record, campaign says
SalonKamala Harris’ campaign has raised $540 million since it launched in July, her campaign announced on Sunday. The vice president's campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, wrote in a memo that the money raised is “the most for any presidential campaign ever.” Of the total raised, $82 million was donated during the Democratic National Convention last week. “Just before Vice President Harris’ acceptance speech Thursday night, we officially crossed the $500 million mark,” O’Malley Dillon wrote in the memo. This is one of several fundraising records broken by Harris’ campaign since President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential election in July. Though the official numbers cannot be confirmed until the campaign files its next campaign finance report, the Harris campaign says that the stated sum points to an enthusiasm for the Democratic candidate “spreading far and wide throughout the battleground states that will decide this election.” Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov.