How have the donors reacted to Joe Biden’s decision to quit the race? Kamala Harris’s windfall gains and more
donations pouring in for Vice-President Kamala Harris. This came immediately after President Joe Biden decided to end his election campaign. The Biden-Harris campaign team is reported to have raised a whopping $81 million within 24 hours after Biden ended his campaign. This is the highest amount raised by a party within a time period of 24 hours during this election season. This has been reported by Mirror.
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While, previously many of the donors had opposed Biden’s nomination and stopped their donations, they are now appearing to be expressing their confidence in Kamala Harris. It needs to be noted that the Vice-President has still not received any official presidential nomination and it is only the party’s national convention that will issue this coveted nomination.
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The campaign team described this amount raised as the highest amount raised in a time period of 24 hours in the history of the US. Many of the donors such as Disney Abigail had previously opposed Joe Biden’s presidential nomination and stopped their donations to the party. The party coffers were drying up and this was one of the reasons which forced Biden to end his campaign.
Future Forward which is the largest PAC in Democratic Politics also announced that it has secured the commitment from donors to the tune of $150 million. The Harris campaign also added that 880,000 grassroot
