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.

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    4 months ago

    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…

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      #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!

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        Ah yes what’s happened over the last week is exactly like the past 8 years of Republican Insanity.

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        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.

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        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