Harris campaign says best hour of donations came after her DNC acceptance speech: NPR

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign announced it had raised $40 million following the Democratic National Convention, saying the peak time for fundraising came immediately after the vice president’s acceptance speech.

Harris’ campaign said Sunday it has raised a total of $540 million since launching its presidential bid a month ago. By contrast, former President Donald Trump’s campaign said the Republican nominee had about $327 million in their war chest as of Aug. 1, after raising nearly $139 million in July.

The vice president’s campaign did not provide a specific fundraising amount for each night at the DNC, but Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue reported fundraising figures for each day of the DNC: $13 million on Monday, $16.5 million on Tuesday, $23 million on Wednesday and nearly $37 million on Thursday.

ActBlue added that it took in $7 million between 11 p.m. and 12 a.m. ET on Thursday, after Harris, who is of South Asian descent and the first black woman to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, made history.

The Harris campaign said it saw “unprecedented grassroots donations” during the week of the DNC. According to the campaign, a third of last week’s donations came from first-time contributors — the majority of whom are women and a fifth are young voters. Teachers and nurses continue to be among the most common donor occupations, campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement.

“Ahead of Labor Day, our campaign is leveraging those resources and enthusiasm to build our momentum, take no voter for granted and engage relentlessly with battleground voters every day between now and Election Day,” Dillon added.