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Majority of pledged Democratic delegates endorse Harris after massive fundraising day [1]
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Date: 2024-07-22
Democrats united behind Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's front-runner for the presidential nomination Monday, and their excitement translated into a juggernaut day of fundraising for the party and for Harris' campaign.
Late Monday night, NBC News projected that Harris had won endorsements from a majority of the Democratic party's pledged convention delegates. The threshold is 1,976 delegates, and NBC estimates that Harris has the spoken or written backing of 1,992 delegates.
While not yet formally the party's presumptive nominee, Harris' position as frontrunner is rock solid, and no potential challengers have signaled they intend to vie for the nomination.
In the hours since President Joe Biden announced that he would end his teetering reelection campaign, Harris and the Democratic party have pulled in roughly $250 million in online donations and major donor commitments.
The Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue has processed $106 million in contributions to Democratic candidates since Biden dropped out, according to an automated tracker.
It is not clear yet how much of this money was given to House and Senate campaigns and how much went to the former Biden campaign, rebranded overnight as the Harris for President campaign.
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