Sunday’s political drama paid off for Vice President Kamala Harris in the form of one of the biggest fundraising windfalls in history.
Harris’ presidential campaign, which she took over yesterday as President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, announced that it brought in $81 million in the first 24 hours — an eye-popping sum that easily dwarfed anything the Biden-Harris campaign had raised in a single day this election cycle.
Much of the giving was driven by online donors contributing via ActBlue, the digital fundraising platform favored by the Democratic Party. The service announced that by 9 p.m. ET Sunday, donors had already given $46.7 million to campaigns and groups that day, making it ActBlue’s biggest fundraising day of the 2024 election to date.
ActBlue’s federal campaign finance filings highlight the big moments Democratic campaigns have enjoyed so far this election cycle. (These filings do not include money donated to non-federal groups via ActBlue.)
Led by Biden’s campaign, daily totals given through ActBlue have trended up over time, spiking at the end of months and quarters around fundraising deadlines. Biden’s campaign launch in late April 2023 generated a spike. And so did the fateful general election debate on June 27, which saw more than $19 million flow through ActBlue that day.
