More than 170,000 volunteers have signed up to help the Harris campaign with phone banking, canvassing and other get-out-the-vote efforts.

Washington: Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has raised $200 million since emerging as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee last week, an eye-opener in her race against the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump.

The campaign, which announced its latest fundraiser on Sunday, said the bulk of the donations — 66% — came from first-time contributors in the 2024 election cycle and came after President Joe Biden announced his exit from the race and endorsed Harris.

More than 170,000 volunteers have signed up to help the Harris campaign with phone banking, canvassing and other get-out-the-vote efforts. 100 days left for the election.

“The momentum and energy for Vice President Harris is real — and so are the fundamentals of this race: This election will be close and decided by a minority of voters in some states,” Michael Tyler, the campaign's director of communications, wrote in the memo.

Her campaign said it has held about 2,300 events in battleground states this weekend as several high-profile Democrats are considering Harris' running mate to serve as a stump for her.

Harris campaigned in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday and drew hundreds to a fundraiser held when Biden was at the top of the Democratic ticket. The fundraiser originally hoped to raise $400,000 but ended up raising about $1.4 million, according to the campaign.

Mandy Robbins, 45, of Decatur, Georgia, went to hear Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a potential Harris running mate, at one of the events held in the northern suburbs of Atlanta on Sunday.

She thought Biden did a “great job” in the White House, but admitted she “wouldn't have been nearly as excited” if he had stayed in the race.

“I feel hopeful now,” Robbins said. “We can win this with Harris,” she added.

Beshear spoke to supporters from experience, telling them that their work could be the difference in what is expected in a close race. Beshear won his 2019 campaign by about 5,000 votes out of 1.41 million ballots cast. He was elected by a relatively comfortable margin in November.

“It was important to knock on every door. Every phone call was important. Every difficult conversation people had with their uncles at Thanksgiving was important,” Beshear said of his 2019 race. “Everyone who signs up to volunteer here today … you could be the difference in winning this race for Vice President Harris.”

Meanwhile, Trump, running mate Sen. J.D. Vance and his surrogates stepped up efforts to frame Harris as a left-wing politician out of touch with the American mainstream.

Vance said Sunday after a lunch stop at Waite Park in Minnesota that Harris “got a little bump from her introduction” but predicted it would wear off soon.

“Look, people are going to learn her record,” Vance said. “They are going to learn that she is a radical. They're going to learn that she's basically a liberal from San Francisco who wants to take San Francisco policies across the country.”

Vance echoed Trump, who attended a campaign event with Vance in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday, calling Harris a “crazy liberal,” accusing her of wanting to “defund the police” and saying she was an “absolute radical” on abortion. . Harris, an outspoken supporter of abortion rights, has made it clear that she will make Republican-backed efforts to restrict reproductive rights a key plank of her campaign.

Sen. Lindsay Graham, R.S.C. Said, “There is no liberal horse she chose not to ride. “

Trump supporter Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. also sought to brand Harris as a full partner in “many bad decisions of the Biden administration,” including the controversial August 2021 US troop withdrawal. Afghan government and military.

Cotton also accused Harris of encouraging Iranian proxies Hamas and Hezbollah by pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about civilian deaths in the war in Gaza.

Netanyahu met separately with Harris and Biden at the White House on Thursday. Afterward, Harris said she urged Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire agreement with the militant group Hamas soon so that dozens of hostages held by the militants in Gaza since Oct. 7 could return home. Harris said she affirmed Israel's right to defend itself but expressed grave concern about the high death toll in Gaza and the “appalling” humanitarian situation there.

Tensions in the Middle East rose on Saturday after Israeli officials said a rocket from Lebanon struck a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, killing 12 children and teenagers. The strike raised fears of a wider regional war between Israel and Hezbollah, which denied any role in the attack.

Trump said at his Saturday rally that the Golan Heights incident “will go down as another moment in history created by a weak and ineffective president and vice president of the United States.” And Vance on Sunday accused Harris of being a “disaster” over the conflict.

Still, some Republicans are concerned that Harris' admission has given Democrats a spark and that Trump needs to recalibrate.

Gov. Chris Sununu, RN.H, said Harris is in a “honeymoon” period that will likely last a month, but he also said both Trump and Vance should stop personal attacks on Harris because they won't get people to vote. Instead, he asked them to stick to the issues and “refrain from insults”.

He said Trump missed an opportunity to do that in recent campaign events, but “hopefully he'll get back on track.” Sununu, however, admitted that “nobody can do what Donald Trump doesn't want to do”.

“But hopefully the numbers, the polls, Donald Trump will know what's working and what's not,” Sununu said

Graham was on CBS's “Face the Nation,” Sununu was on ABC's “This Week,” and Cotton was on CNN's “State of the Union.”