Mark Ruffalo, Mark Hamill, Josh Gad, Pete Buttigieg, and Jeff Bridges show up at White Dudes for Harris Zoom

Celebrities, elected officials and political activists jumped on a Zoom call to raise more than $3.5m forVice President Kamala Harris’s run for president on Monday evening.

The Zoom call featured stars such as Mark Ruffalo, Josh Gad, Sean Astin, Mark Hamill, and Josh Groban.

There were also appearances by elected officials such as North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, former House majority leader Steny Hoyer and Senator Gary Peters of Michigan. Potential Harris VP Pete Buttigieg was also on the call.

Similarly, many of the attendees took swipes at former president Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, seeing it as a chance to push back on sexist attacks about Harris being one of the “childless cat ladies” who runs the country, as well as accusations she was a diversity hire.

As of Monday evening, the Zoom call raised $3.5m.

Organized by Brad Bauman and Ross Morales Rocketto, the Zoom fundraiser is just the latest chapter of Harris’s fundraising blitz ever since President Joe Biden endorsed his running mate to succeed her. Morales Rocketto said in his opening remarks that fundraiser was inspired by a Black Women for Harris.

Morales Rocketto said that he was initially hesitant about organizing an event.

“Throughout American history, when white men have organized, it was often with pointy hats on,” he said in reference to the Ku Klux Klan. “And so I think that discomfort, I think the skepticism, is understandable. The reason that we are doing this is because we just, you know, the left has been ceding white men to the Maga right for way, way too long.”

A’Shanti Gholar, the president of Emerge America, said it was important to have white male voters get involved.

“I'm friends with Ross who is planning it, and when