Kamala Harris has set a new record by taking in nearly $47 million in the first hour of her campaign

U.S. Vice President and White House candidate Kamala Harris has raised about $46.7 million in donations in her first hour as a candidate since President Joe Biden resigned from re-election.

These statistics make up yesterday “The Biggest Fundraising Day of the 2024 Cycle”, according to data from ActBlue, a US organization that serves as a fundraising platform for politicians. “Small donors are excited,” they noted on their social networks.

An increase in fundraising, including money for Kamala Harris’s campaign and other Democratic candidates and groups; Democratic enthusiasm “We’ve never seen anything like this in this cycle,” the platform said.

As ActBlue previously stated In the first five hours of Harris’ campaign, the site has already raised more than $27.5 million Through donations from small donors.

These efforts were echoed by the New York Times, which says that smaller donors are quickly joining Harris.

He cites one example: David Hawk, a gun control activist and survivor of the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, has challenged his followers on social media to quickly fundraise for a new presidential candidate.

Hawk said his X-Network appeal was able to raise $200,000 in donations in a matter of hours.

Biden’s decision not to seek re-election comes weeks after Democrats urged the president to drop out of the race after a disastrous performance in a televised debate with former Republican President Donald Trump.

Biden and his campaign team did not until this Sunday after repeated calls from his party to reconsider withdrawing from the presidential race.

In the hours since Biden’s announcement, several Democrats have endorsed Harris as a candidate for the November election, confirming that he will run.

The Vice President has already officially announced his candidacy for the next election.

Biden’s campaign team, which again counted Harris as its “number two,” had already changed Federal Election Commission documents at the last minute on Sunday, confirming the president’s withdrawal from the race for the White House in favor of Harris. Who still needs to gather the necessary support to win the nomination.

As vice president, Biden has been tasked with some of his administration’s most complex tasks, such as securing the nation’s borders. As the official who presides over the Senate, he has cast a record number of tie-breaking votes on bills introduced by Democrats that preserve slim majorities in both houses of Congress in this year’s elections.

(with information from EP, AP and EFE)