Fundraising

She took in more than $1.2 billion in contributions. Her donors numbered in the millions, including many new to the political process. But in the end, it didn’t matter.

Vice President Kamala Harris lost her bid for the White House on Wednesday despite spending most of the funds on an expansive ground operation, staffing and a flood of ads. President-elect Donald Trump won a second term with half of what Harris’s campaign spent.

In October, weeks before the 2024 election, the word was out: Vice President Kamala Harris had fundraised north of $1 billion. The haul, the New York Times reported upon breaking the news, was historic because of the short period of time, just three months, that it flooded in.

A congressional investigation into whether Democrats have been using the ActBlue online donation platform to cheat at fund-raising has expanded into possible foreign funding as House and Senate investigators join forces to demand the Biden administration provide them access to classified intelligence and secret money-laundering reports filed by banks.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ entrance into the presidential election last month has blown up her fundraising race with former President Donald Trump, with the combined Biden and Harris campaigns raising more than four times as much as Trump in July and erasing the ex-president’s cash advantage—and Democrats say pro-Harris groups have raised over $500 million since Joe Biden left the race.

Democrat Kamala Harris has raised $540 million in little more than a month since she began her race for U.S. president, with a surge of donations flowing in during the Democratic National Convention last week, her campaign said on Sunday.

A memo released by Harris' campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, said the $540 million raised included $82 million that came in during convention week and is a sign of Democratic enthusiasm for her candidacy.

"This is the most ever for any presidential campaign in this time span," she said.

 Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign said it brought in $540 million since Harris entered the race last month, touting a surge in donations during the Democratic National Convention as the party rallied around its new ticket.

Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign is coming off a feel-good week at the Democratic National Convention, and the campaign’s fundraising figures have added to that feeling.

The Harris campaign, in a memo Sunday, said it had raised $540 million since Harris launched her campaign just over a month ago, when President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid. Harris campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon said in the memo that just before Harris’s Thursday DNC speech was their largest single hour in funds raised this cycle for their campaign.