From the Harris/Walz campaign:
Hello all,
It’s been almost three weeks since Vice President Harris launched her presidential bid, and since then we’ve seen a groundswell of support — the type of grassroots support, organizing, and fundraising that wins elections.
This week, that momentum has only grown with the addition of Governor Tim Walz to the ticket. Team Harris-Walz has seen an extraordinary amount of enthusiasm for this new ticket, raising $36 million in the first 24 hours. Just a few days into joining the ticket, Governor Walz’s popularity is already surging — as JD Vance’s continues to tank.
Even with this momentum, as Vice President Harris continues to make clear, we are the underdogs in this race and we’re taking nothing for granted. We believe this will be a very close election, decided by a very small number of voters, in just a few states.
This week was a prime example of our theory of the case at work: we broke through, turned enthusiasm into action, and reached the voters who will decide this election. Let’s take a look:
- In the first 24 hours after Governor Walz was announced as Vice President Harris’ running mate, Team Harris-Walz raised a grassroots-powered $36 million dollars on top of an enormous outpouring of support and praise from Democratic elected officials, Republicans, independents, and both business and labor leaders. This is the money that will go to talking to voters and building campaign presences in every community to elect Democrats up and down the ticket.
- Vice President Harris and Governor Walz drew historic crowds during our battleground states tour including 14,000+ in Philadelphia, 12,000+ in Eau Claire, and 15,000+ in both Detroit and Arizona. These events matter not only because they make Trump very, very mad, but because they get our message to voters, and expand our supporter network:
- Event coverage earns us consistent and at-scale earned media to amplify our message in places voters get their news: across evening news, front pages, and local media.
- The rallies also broke through online: On KamalaHQ across platforms, we saw 54 million impressions on both speeches (Eau Claire and Detroit) on Wednesday, and Vice President Harris’ channels across platforms saw 70 million impressions.
- They also serve as opportunities to recruit supporters and volunteers that will be critical to reaching the voters who will decide the election — in Arizona alone, we picked up 3,000 volunteer shifts. That’s 3,000 Harris-Walz supporters who will be making the case to their communities about voting this November.
- Launched a new TV ad and our first ad targeting Latino voters that highlights Kamala Harris’ middle class roots, along with an ad touting her fight to secure the border. Part of a historic $50 million paid media campaign ahead of the Democratic National Convention, this campaign helps define who Kamala Harris is for voters in a crowded, divided media environment.
- Demonstrated how the unprecedented labor support, including the recent endorsement by the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 16 along with the flurry of additional endorsements behind this ticket delivers not just words on a press release but tangible organizing prowess and hundreds of millions of dollars that will help us win a close election in November.
- Expanded the infrastructure and capacity needed to harness the enthusiasm we’re seeing to win this November. We now tout over 1,500 coordinated staff, over 265 coordinated offices, and this strong existing infrastructure is delivering by mobilizing the surge of enthusiasm into action across the country on the ground, talking to the voters who will decide this election.
This is a whole lot of work — and it’s a testament to a campaign, a party, and a ticket that knows how close this election will be.
Meanwhile, let’s look at how Donald Trump and his campaign are approaching this close election.
Last night in Montana, Donald Trump’s ranting and raving focused (well not so focused) on committing the RNC to subverting the 2024 election, spewing grotesque attacks against the media, and promising to gut funding for every public school in the country.
One month ago, the Trump campaign was “planning for a landslide win.” They boasted of all the paths they had to 270 they even “stopped counting.
Fast forward to this month. Trump isn’t just taking voters for granted with no real infrastructure to speak of, he’s doubling down on the same old angry, spiteful, and self-obsessed extremist views America rejected in 2020.
He’s not campaigning in swing states, is attacking popular Republican governors in states he needs to win and trashing his staff, engages in public meltdowns every several days, spews so many blatant lies we can’t keep up with them, said this week he would ban abortion medication, and was caught (again) completely intertwined in Project 2025.
This morning, The New York Times reports it’s even worse down in Mar-a-Lago. Trump is attacking donors, throwing his running mate under the bus, and lashing out at staff. He is unfocused, unprepared, and incapable of delivering any positive message for the American people.
The bottom line? While the Trump-Vance team is spiraling, Team Harris-Walz is riding a historic wave of earned media and translating the immense grassroots enthusiasm into winning a close election this November.
Kevin Munoz
Harris-Walz Senior Spokesperson
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