GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Vice President Kamala Harris has garnered more than $100 million for her campaign war chest, as she prepares to battle former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Harris hit the ground running, collecting financial support from Democratic supporters and winning the backing of enough delegates to be considered the party's presumptive nominee. So says FOX News Correspondent Jared Halpern. He was a guest on West Michigan's Morning News.
"It is a massive campaign haul. It set a single-day, 24-hour record for any presidential campaign in history. It shows the length to which Harris is working to unify the party as quickly as possible," Halpern said.
The White House evidently anticipated President Joe Biden's announcement last weekend that he was ending his re-election campaign. Many wealthy Democratic donors had said they would not contribute to the 81-year-old Biden's campaign due to questions about his mental and physical fitness for four more years in office. The donations had not been coming in at the clip that it had been, due to concerns about Biden's ability to win.
"More than half of the pledged delegates to Biden have now pledged their support to her (Harris). She was brought over the top, it would appear, by the more than 300 delegates from her home state of California. And so, she is really off to the races here," Halpern said.
Harris will hold a campaign rally Tuesday in Milwaukee. She had been scheduled to participate in the rally, anyway, as Biden's running mate. She will now do it as the top of the party ticket. Harris was in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday to meet with campaign officials. Biden's campaign manager is now serving as Harris's campaign manager. And the campaign chair will remain the same.
"This seems to be a campaign that is up and running," Halpern said. "And that was going to be one of the challenges for any Democrat who potentially would throw their hat in the field here. They were not going to have the type of apparatus, the type of infrastructure that Harris had, obviously, as the running mate and the vice president for the past three-plus years."
Trump has already called for a debate between he and Harris.
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