Kamala’s Donor Love Story

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Even when there was hesitancy, by some donors, to really buy into the vice president being the best candidate, even some of those people are coming back. Photo: Michael DeMocker/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
July 24, 2024

In the past 48 hours, donors have poured an unprecedented $100 million into Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. Political observers expected the floodgates to open after Joe Biden withdrew from the race on Sunday, but the sheer volume of donations caught even insiders by surprise. To make sense of where the money race goes from here, I called up CNBC’s political finance whiz, Brian Schwartz. We talk about the Kamala bump, whether she can reverse Trump’s gains with the Silicon Valley crowd, and the new veepstakes. The following conversation, which has been lightly edited for length and clarity, was excerpted from my election podcast, Somebody’s Gotta Win