Joe Biden’s Kamala Harris endorsement sparks massive fundraiser

2024 has a been a hell of a 12 months and yesterday issues escalated to a brand new stage.

President Joe Biden introduced that he was dropping out of the presidential race after beforehand taking a defiant tone towards these suggesting that he ought to achieve this. The shocking declaration got here within the wake of “Democrats” like Senator Joe Manchin popping out publicly to plead with a seemingly ailing Biden to take away himself from the marketing campaign.

President Biden didn’t chunk a deuce earlier than giving a full-throated endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to take the reins and defeat Donald Trump in November. Regardless of the “The place’s Waldo?” criticism that VP Harris has acquired over the course of the Biden administration, the information of her potential candidacy (We are saying “potential” as a result of there may be nonetheless a course of that has to happen for her to change into the official candidate. Nonetheless, it’s a little bit of a foregone conclusion) was met with excessive pleasure by Black girls who appeared much more invigorated to mobilize with the thought of “President Kamala Harris” standing earlier than them. A corporation known as Win With Black Ladies held an open Zoom name that moderator Jotaka Eaddy says reached 40,000 viewers at its peak. The decision garnered a lot help that $1.5 million was raised in simply 3 hours!

Skepticism round whether or not or not VP Harris can defeat Trump is divisively deep, nevertheless, the sort of fundraising must be famous as an indication of a base who’s extra able to combat now than they have been with an octogenarian white man with waning help from contained in the celebration.

It isn’t simply organizations like Win With Black Ladies who made it rain on them Joes. In accordance with Newsweek’s reporting, one other grassroots operation known as ActBlue took in donations that tallied $46.7 million inside a enterprise day’s time of Biden’s large announcement. A number of hours later, it was reported by KTVU that the quantity had risen to $60 million.

Time to punch the clock. Election day is correct across the nook.