Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a marketing campaign rally on the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sept. 12, 2024.
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Vice President Kamala Harris raised $47 million within the first 24 hours following her Tuesday night time debate in opposition to former President Donald Trump, a Harris marketing campaign spokesman informed CNBC.
The huge determine represents one other increase to Harris’ fundraising operation, which has been a juggernaut since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her for president in July.
The $47 million sum got here from practically 600,000 particular person donors who contributed to one in all a number of marketing campaign committees and PACs backing the ticket of Harris and her operating mate, Tim Walz, the marketing campaign stated.
Harris was broadly thought of the winner of the talk, held in Philadelphia and hosted by ABC Information. Each Democratic and Republican strategists and elected officers agreed that Trump let himself be rattled by Harris’ confrontational fashion and a number of other cases the place the ABC Information moderators fact-checked him in actual time.
The latest Harris fundraising numbers mark the newest blow for the Trump marketing campaign, which has been lagging behind Harris within the fundraising recreation.
The Harris political operation just lately introduced that it raised $361 million in August, greater than double the $130 million Trump’s crew raised the identical month.
The information of Harris’ $47 million day was first reported by The New York Instances.
