Democratic fundraising group ActBlue said on Sunday evening that it had seen its biggest single-day haul of the 2024 election after US President Joe Biden dropped out and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
“As of 9pm ET, grassroots supporters have raised $46.7 million through ActBlue following Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launch. This has been the biggest fundraising day of the 2024 cycle,” said a post on X by the group, which facilitates online fundraising for Democratic candidates.
The figure is the total amount raised on the platform, not only donations to the Harris campaign.
ActBlue previously said that in the first five hours of Harris’s campaign, the platform raised more than $27.5 million through small donor donations.
Furthermore, the New York Times reported that Sunday marked the single biggest day for online Democratic donations since the 2020 election. The Times said the previous record was set the day after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020, and ActBlue raised about $73.5 million.
Founded in 2004 by Benjamin Rahn and Matt DeBergalis, ActBlue champions itself as the “the home of small-dollar donors,” according to its website.
Although ActBlue does not endorse individual candidates, the organization is open to Democratic campaigns, candidates, committees and progressive organizations.
With AFP
