In the 24 hours after Biden dropping out and supporting Harris, the Harris campaign raised over $81 million. This is critical because it basically neutralizes the massive techbroligarch donations. But there’s also something else that critical: the number of people who donated.
According to the campaign, in those 24 hours alone, 888,000 people donated. That’s over one percent of the total number of votes Biden received in 2020. That doesn’t include people who donated a week ago and so on. That seems noteworthy and suggests there’s a lot of grassroots support and excitement for Harris (and also, enough Democrats are sick of all of the shenanigans and just want to advance).
Anyway, that seems encouraging–and a more important story than the non-troversy stories about a supposed floor flight or Miss America pageant for a bunch of Democratic possibles.
mikethemadbiologist
I don’t know what a “floor flight” is, but I’m intrigued as hell to find out! 😉
Nothing exciting.
Persons “on the floor” (i.e., delegates) are “fighting” (with their votes, not their fists) about whom should be nominated.
For context, Obama was proud of his 2012 campaign where 2/3rds of the 84 million in donations came from small donors.
I think the donation technology machinery is different than at that point, so it’s not a direct apples to apples, but it’s 81 million is quite a respectable figure.
I’m not sure this is all grassroots support. I’ve been getting a highly annoying number of text-messages asking me to contribute to KH – from, apparently, a number of different organizations (based on the names signing the messages). And before Biden’s announcement I had been getting similar messages supposedly from from his campaign. I reply “Stop” to these messages, and block the number where the messages are sent from, but the goddamn things keep coming They apparently don’t care how much they annoy supporters – or maybe they are GOP trolls in disguise. In either case, to hell with them.
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