Memos show massive jump in contributions and volunteers for Kamala Harris campaign, in addition to $200m haul
With less than 100 days to go in the election cycle, the launch of Kamala Harris’s campaign has injected newfound energy into her party, raising Democrats’ hopes of winning battleground states that once seemed irretrievably lost to Donald Trump.
According to a set of memos exclusively shared with the Guardian, Democratic parties in battleground states saw a dramatic surge in contributions and volunteer sign-ups in the past week, in addition to the Harris campaign’s record-breaking fundraising haul of $200m.
The memos, which were shared by the coordinated campaign between Harris for President and the Democratic National Committee, offer some promising signs for the vice-president. In Georgia, where Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by just 12,000 votes or 0.2 points in 2020, more than 1,000 new volunteers signed up in the 24 hours after Harris announced her candidacy, marking the largest single-day total of the campaign. Georgia Democrats also collected $200,000, as donations to the state party increased by 320% compared with the week before.
Still crazy so many people kept saying campaigns don’t matter and everyone that wasn’t running but already polling similar to Joe wouldnt improve if they just said “I’m running”.
But we can’t let Kamala act like this is some mandate for her specifically
2028 needs a full and fair primary, and we need to just make that the norm moving forward regardless of if it’s a Dem incumbent.
Primaries help Dems because it gets the base motivated and engaged, while showing candidates and the party what voters want.its a two way street.
I tend to agree, but I will say if Dems truly want the will of the people, then they should switch all the primaries over to RCV. The current FPTP system gives incumbents huge advantages while penalizing reform candidates with similar politics.
Send delegates proportionally allocated to the top 2 or 3 and run the convention the same way.
RCV and having everyone vote at once. We have the internet, candidates don’t need to physically campaign everywhere, and we can have primary debates so the candidates all get their platform out.
Simple popular vote so everyone’s vote matters the same, and none of this bullshit where the DNC picks a handful of red states and declares it’s over after they vote.
I’m never gonna forget what happened to New Hampshire.
Asking as a person outside the US, has it ever happened that the incumbent didn’t win the primary?
American primaries almost never run the whole course.
A handful of states vote and then almost everyone drops out.
Like someone else said, LBJ dropped as an incumbent.
There’s this weird belief where any kind of primary weakens the incumbent, but that’s because it’s rare for an incumbent to face a serious primary. Only the weakest incumbents do, but avoiding the primary doesn’t magically make a candidate better. It just removes the option to abandon ship before it sinks.
LBJ dropped out after a few states into primaries for 1968.
Semi-rural Pennsylvania checking in.
The amount of Trump propaganda in houses and vehicles still feels lower than prior election cycles. Seems to largely be the same people from the last 2 elections. I see more flags, but less plastered pickups, and what I do see feels more subtle.
It feels the die-hards are still all in, but the fringe here is weakened, so I’m remaining hopeful. I’ve got way too many trumpers on both sides of the family, but they don’t have the same level of hype as years prior. A few seem to be waivering on voting at all.
Moms for Liberty got booted from the one local school board and the other got rid of that 1649 program or whatever it was called, so local elections is a reddish purple county have been going mostly Dem.
It’s still far from concerning, and there is a lot more red Pennsyltucky out there, but my county and the neighboring ones have more people/voters than they do. I won’t breathe a sigh of relief until I see Trump and crew hopefully struggle for relevancy after the inauguration though.
My parents are doing a write in instead of voting for Trump again, so I consider that a win
I agree with you. Any vote he doesn’t get is a positive in my book.
It’s the same reason the other interests try to get Dem voters to stay home, vote third party, etc. Even if they can’t win you over, it’s another vote their opponent isn’t getting.
I’m going to ask you to do something uncomfortable. Something more of us should be doing when we have time:
Go out and volunteer. Online texting and email services are annoying. Hell, I know I get enough of them. BUT, very few people won’t vote because of them, while a larger percentage will be at least reminded and raise the chance of higher turnout. Moreover, get even a little involved in local politics, including getting the people around you to polling booths.
I want us all to put aside our differences and work together past the Presidency. WE can change this country together.
I’d love to find someone to help. The ones I meet that don’t vote seem to really be totally off put by the idea. It’s like I’m asking them to come help me move or something. Since we went to mail in voting being a thing, it really cuts down on the valid excuses.
I still encourage everyone to be active and I’ll explain candidates positions and such. Researching local elections is much harder than it needs to be, even for someone like myself that is politically active. I just get amazed at the number of people who don’t see any difference between candidates and can’t even be bothered to fill in a few bubbles on a form.
Alternate Headline:
Surge in Democratic Thoughts and Prayers raises hopes of winning swing states.
eta: with such enthusiastic dogpiling, I should be a VP pick!
Wait, are you telling me that thoughts and prayers actually meant “volunteers giving me free help” and “tons of money when I ask for it” this whole time? Son of a…
#maga, everyday since 2016:
“The enthusiasm is crazy, the most, biggest, loudest, largest, unheard of before, record-breaking, more than last time, unbelievable, incredible, *ad nauseum…”Dems, suddenly:
“Enthusiasm! Golly, gee willickers (see above)…”
Looks like a draw, enthusiasm-wise! It’s gotta be 3 football fields or 87 cubits x decibels!
Sorry, I don’t understand a bit of that.
Ah yes what’s happened over the last week is exactly like the past 8 years of Republican Insanity.
Dems are putting up actual resources i.e money and labor.
You can tell because the article lists them explicitly to backup its premise of Democratic enthusiasm.
You must not live in a red state…
Their enthusiasm is almost as bad as ours was before Biden dropped.
There’s still the diehards and rally attendees. But across the Republican base, enthusiasm for trump is way lower than the last two elections
Another alternative: “Clueless trolls in shambles after learning a real uptick in Democratic voter enthusiasm exists”
The party of thoughts and prayers seem intent on supporting a geriatric orange fascist. I look forward to that day months from now where we shut your kind down. Whine about your silly civil war bullshit, all talk and no brains, cause the only person getting shot at so far is the crooked leader of your false flag flying, walled off, backwards thinking, hypocritical cult, you two-week past the expired date of a human being.
Anyway, that was fun. Democrats do some good, which is fine. When things improve under real leadership I hope to find people just like you online apologizing. :) Cause I don’t know about the others quite yet, though the sentiment is that we want to continue pushing even after this election cycle.
And if you’re REALLY unlucky, the old grassroots Bernie crowd will step in to help Harris shut down weird old Trump even harder.
Love you.
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