Harris raised $82M during convention, $540M since announcing candidacy

Vice President Harris’s campaign raised $82 million during the Democratic convention and has brought in a staggering $540 million since she entered the presidential race roughly one month ago.

Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon in a memo shared with reporters on Sunday highlighted a surge in donations and volunteers from last week’s convention in Chicago. The campaign saw its best grassroots fundraising hour to date immediately following Harris’s acceptance speech on Thursday.

One-third of the donations during convention week came from first-time contributors, O’Malley Dillon wrote, with teachers and nurses among the most common occupations for donors.

O’Malley Dillon also touted the number of volunteers it has signed up, citing it as a sign of enthusiasm for Harris’s candidacy. The campaign signed up individuals for 200,000 new volunteer shifts since the convention began.

“Bottom line: The Convention was a galvanizing moment for the Harris-Walz coalition throughout the country, energizing and mobilizing volunteer and grassroots donors alike,” O’Malley Dillon wrote. 

“Headed into Labor Day, our campaign is using those resources and enthusiasm to build on our momentum, taking no voters for granted and communicating relentlessly with battleground voters every single day between now and Election Day – all the while Trump is focused on very little beyond online tantrums and attacking the voters critical to winning 270 electoral votes,” she added.

Harris has erased former President Trump’s polling lead in the roughly one month since she replaced President Biden atop the Democratic ticket, building a massive war chest in the process.

The Trump campaign, in a memo of its own published Saturday, predicted Harris would likely see another bounce in the polls following the Democratic convention. But the campaign downplayed the long-term sustainability of Harris’s boost.

“Our goal is to get to 270 and winning these states is how we do it,” Trump pollsters Tony Fabrizio and Travis Tunis wrote. “We’ll let the media make mountains out of molehills, while we keep driving forward, sticking to our winning plan of getting President Trump re-elected.”