Kamala Harris Raises $2 Million in 24 Hours After Debate

Senator Kamala Harris of California raised $2 million online in the first 24 hours following the start of Thursday’s presidential primary debate, a total that suggests her performance resonated with many Democratic donors.

Ms. Harris, whose preplanned sparring with former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. over his record on race relations was the highlight of two nights of debates, collected donations from 63,277 people, Ms. Harris wrote in an email to supporters. She said 58 percent of those donors had not contributed to her campaign before.

The haul comes at a key moment for Ms. Harris. Sunday marks the end of the year’s second fund-raising quarter, a marker by which the 24 Democrats running for president will be judged.

“It was the best day of online fund-raising yet,” Ms. Harris wrote in the email.

Ms. Harris was already among the Democratic primary’s fund-raising leaders. She collected $12 million in the three months ending March 31, second only to Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who raised $18 million in that period.

Since then Mr. Biden and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., have emerged as the Democratic field’s leading fund-raisers.

Ms. Harris entered Thursday’s debate following months of questions about her performance. After launching her campaign before a 20,000-person rally in Oakland, Calif., she lingered in the high-single digits in public polling, trailing Mr. Biden, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Buttigieg and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

But on Thursday, while Mr. Biden and others engaged in cross talk about race relations, she seized the opportunity to inject herself into the conversation.

“I would like to speak on the issue of race,” she said, before attacking Mr. Biden’s decades-old fights against federally-mandated busing programs to integrate schools.

Ineligible? LOL! Some claim obxxx was too. See what that got us. I was not happy during those eight centuries obxxx was in the white hut but never did I get even close to the low level assclown crap going on now. And 2 million in 24 hours? Didn’t PDJT raise 10x that after the great Orlando kick off?

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