Hi all –
Vice President Harris has been a candidate for less than a week, but she’s already coalesced the entire Democratic Party around her campaign and the organic, grassroots enthusiasm is producing results. From record-breaking fundraising to unprecedented crowds and volunteers pouring into field offices across the battlegrounds, Team Harris is fired up to elect the Vice President and defeat the extremist Trump-Vance ticket.
The momentum and energy for Vice President Harris is real – and so are the fundamentals of this race: this election will be very close and decided by a small number of voters in just a few states. That’s why our campaign is harnessing the energy across the country for a weekend of action to mark 100 days out from the election (today!). Here’s what you need to know about Team Harris’ first week:
- $200 Million Raised in Less Than a Week: Team Harris has raised $200 million since President Biden’s endorsement last Sunday – a record-shattering haul. Of that amount, 66% came from first-time donors, further proof of the tremendous grassroots support for the Vice President.
- Intense Support from Our Winning Coalition: The enthusiasm for Vice President Harris’ candidacy is uniting and growing our winning coalition – with endorsements from young voters, voters of color, labor, Barack and Michelle Obama, and countless more leaders and advocates. The party is so united behind Vice President Harris’ candidacy that she earned enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee barely 24 hours after announcing her campaign. Just this weekend, dozens of surrogates are joining Team Harris on the campaign trail.
- Surging Volunteer Support: Since last Sunday, we’ve seen unprecedented grassroots support for the campaign across the country, with over 170,000 new volunteers joining Team Harris. We are not taking that excitement for granted – just this weekend, the campaign will mobilize thousands of grassroots supporters with more than 2,300 events in battleground states. We are also engaging supporters online and through traditional media, with the VP herself joining TikTok and gaining millions of followers since.
- Organic, Grassroots Momentum: Winning campaigns are powered by real, organic support. This week, hundreds of thousands of supporters came together via calls to support the Vice President, and raised millions in the process – including shows of support from coalitions of Black women and men, Latinas, white women, the LGBTQ community, and more.
- VP Harris Energizing Voters on the Campaign Trail: The Vice President herself was out on the campaign trail, energizing and inspiring supporters across the country – from rallying her team at campaign HQ to firing up an “exuberant” crowd at the largest rally of the campaign to-date in Milwaukee and “electric” remarks to the American Federation of Teachers. And she’s just getting started, next up: Atlanta on Tuesday.
Meanwhile Donald Trump is scrambling…. and he’s scared to debate Vice President Harris! While the Harris coalition is unified and growing, Donald Trump is weighed down by his extensive vulnerabilities, for example, his Friday comments about ending elections in this country. Or his historically unpopular VP pick in JD Vance – largely driven by his deep-seeded and revealing disdain for women. And if it couldn’t get more obvious, Trump made it abundantly clear Thursday night that he’s scared of defending his extreme and dangerous Project 2025 agenda — that would roll back Americans’ rights and freedoms, hurt the middle class, and threaten our democracy — by backing out of the September 10 debate, which, as the VP herself pointed out, is quite the walk-back from Trump’s prior boasts that he was willing to debate anytime, anywhere.
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