Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally on Tuesday in Milwaukee. Since President Biden dropped out and endorsed her, money has been rushing into her campaign and allied Democratic groups.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times
The high-dollar fund-raising world is whirring to life for Vice President Kamala Harris after weeks in which Democratic donors were dejected, demoralized and utterly battered.
Since the announcement of her presidential campaign, Ms. Harris has not only raked in $130 million primarily from small donors, but also gathered big check after big check from billionaires and millionaires as they stockpile money into the newly renamed Harris Victory Fund. Her fund-raisers, armed with a new Harris logo, went to work.
Major fund-raisers — one of whom told President Biden’s campaign just days ago that he thought the campaign could count on only about 25 percent of its allied donors to support Mr. Biden — are now swamped with a flood of interest from donors.
In mid-August, the playwright David Henry Hwang will put on a performance of his musical “Soft Power,” which will serve as a Harris fund-raiser in suburban Washington, and Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia is scheduled to attend another event on Martha’s Vineyard.