2024-07-29 10:52:32
100 days until the election: Harris’ team interprets her fundraising success as a sign of broad support. Trump, meanwhile, is intensifying his verbal attacks on the Vice President – and further heating up the election campaign.
One week after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, the election campaign in the USA has finally entered a new phase. The team of the new Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris says it has managed to collect donations totaling 200 million dollars (around 184 million euros) since last Sunday. Republican rival Donald Trump intensified his rhetoric against the vice president in appearances over the weekend. The presidential election will take place on November 5, in 100 days.
Harris’ team described the donations of the past few days as “record-breaking.” Two-thirds of the money came from first-time donors. This indicates that Harris enjoys broad support among the party’s base.
Biden had proposed Harris as his replacement immediately after withdrawing from the presidential race. The 59-year-old has yet to be formally chosen as the candidate by the Democrats. She managed to gather all of her important supporters behind her in a short time. On Saturday she attended her first fundraising gala.
Trump, who has already been nominated as candidate by his party, attacked Harris with renewed vehemence. Harris is a “failure on every level,” the 78-year-old said at a rally in front of supporters in the state of Minnesota on Saturday. If a “crazy liberal like Kamala Harris” moves into the White House, the American dream will be “dead.” Read more about it here.
A Harris victory would mean “four more years of extremism, weakness, failure, chaos and probably World War III.” The Republican accused the vice president of failing in immigration policy. What she has done disqualifies her for the presidency.