Kamala Harris’s campaign announced Thursday that it raised $47 million in the 24 hours following Tuesday’s presidential debate on ABC News. The sum was given by nearly 600,000 individual donors.
“This historic, 24-hour haul reflects a strong and growing coalition of Americans united behind Vice President Harris’ candidacy that knows the stakes this November, and are doing their part to defeat Donald Trump this November,” said Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, in a statement.
The fundraising news comes as Trump said Thursday he will enter the cryptocurrency industry, with a plan to be unveiled Sept. 16 at his Mar-A-Lago home. Trump also announced Thursday via Truth Social that he will not debate Harris again.
Financial reports published by OpenSecrets state that Harris has raised close to $500 million, with an additional $273 million of help coming from PACs such as the Future Forward USA, American Bridge 21st Century, and The Lincoln Project, which features former GOP members. OpenSecrets reports that Trump’s election effort has raised $574,469,181 to Harris’s $770,402,558 as of Aug. 21. Harris’s sum includes data formerly listed under President Joe Biden after it was renamed to Harris for President.
American Bridge 21st Century, founded by David Brock of Media Matters, announced Thursday that it launched a $15 million “wave of ads in blue wall states.”
The Conservative Caucus is a grassroots organization that builds conservative efforts nationwide. The group’s president, Jim Pfaff, tells NTD they spent $3.2 million on “pro-Trump independent expenditures.”
“It’s a big election. People are excited. But I have questions about ActBlue, in light of recent investigations that were done,” Pfaff said, referring to a story published by a group of independent journalists who reportedly traced the identities of some ActBlue donors back to people who claim they never made the donations in question. The Virginia Attorney General and the Wyoming Secretary of State both launched investigations based on the report.
The Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, also started an investigation into ActBlue in the past year, stating that “Certain features of campaign finance law may incentivize bad actors to use platforms like ActBlue to covertly move money to political campaigns to evade legal requirements.”
ActBlue is the main donation platform for the Democratic Party. The Republican Party has its own grassroots fundraising tool, WinRed, where Trump supporters can buy MAGA hats that go toward a campaign donation. An individual is legally allowed to contribute $3,300 to a specific candidate for federal office in the 2024 general election.
“This investigation is nothing more than a partisan political attack and scare tactic to undermine the power of Democratic and progressive small-donor donors,” said ActBlue in a statement. “Republicans simply cannot accept that millions of Democrats are energized and engaged in the political process, and are instead resorting to political attacks and spreading false accusations.”
In an X post last week on the Harris campaign’s official rapid response page, Kamala HQ, they said they raised $361 million in August alone, compared to Trump’s $130 million.
According to FEC records, the Harris For President campaign was transferred $247,034,854.42, most of which came from Biden’s campaign. Harris became the Democratic Party’s nominee for commander-in-chief after Biden announced on July 21 that he would not continue to seek re-election.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.