Campaigners say Harris received $20,000 per minute during fundraising effort

At one point on Thursday, the Kamala Harris campaign was raising $20,000 per minute, campaigners have said.

The campaign for the vice president was hosting a Zoom call for white women to “answer the call” and “show up for Kamala Harris.”

“We’re raising $20,000 per minute — the system wasn’t built for this. If you can’t make your donation, keep trying,” Shannon Watts, founder of the anti-gun violence group Mom Demands Action, wrote on X on Thursday morning.

Watts added that there were more than 100,000 participants and that at least $2m was raised during the fundraising effort.

The Harris campaign expected to bring in another $1.4m during a fundraiser in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on Saturday. The event, with about 800 attendees at the Colonial Theatre, was the largest event held in the Berkshires since then-First Lady Michelle Obama visited in 2012.

Her remarks at the fundraiser lasted roughly 18 minutes.

Describing her past as a prosecutor, she said: “In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.”

The Harris campaign is targeting women voters, a group former President Donald Trump has struggled with in past elections. In 2016, Trump won 39 per cent of women, losing the group by 15 points to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In 2020, he garnered 44 per cent of the women’s vote, losing by 11 points to President Joe Biden, Newsweek noted.

According to a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted between July 22 and 24, Harris leads Trump among women by 14 points – 55 to 41 per cent.

This comes as Trump’s running mate Ohio Senator JD Vance