Kamala Harris Raised $1.5 Million Online in Just the First Day of Her Campaign
In the first 24 hours since Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) announced her 2020 bid, the senator raised $1.5 million in online contributions from more than 38,000 individual donors, according to her aides. The Wall Street Journal first reported the figures.
Around $1 million of that was raised in the first 12 hours of her candidacy alone; and the average contribution from all donors was $37.
In 2015, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), another big small-dollar fundraiser, reported raking in more than $1.5 million in the first 24 hours of his 2016 campaign. That haul came from a reported 35,000 individual donors, which would put him just behind Harris’ donor tally in the first 24 hours—a tally the Harris campaign believes could constitute the most individual online donors ever in the first day of a campaign.
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