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Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump has weighed in on Vice President Kamala Harris receiving a record-breaking fundraising windfall shortly after President Joe Biden exited the 2024 presidential race.
Biden announced that he was bowing out of the election and endorsed Harris on Sunday. The decision followed several weeks of intense pressure from high-profile Democrats for Biden to step aside over concerns about his ability to defeat former President Donald Trump in what would have been a November rematch.
Less than 24 hours later, the nascent Harris campaign announced that it had already raised a staggering $81 million, the largest amount raised by any presidential candidate over a 24-hour period in U.S. history, according to the Associated Press.
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A short time later, Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of the former president, acknowledged that Harris had raised a "large number" during an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum, while also dismissing the donations as contributions from "millionaires and billionaires" desperate to defeat her father-in-law.
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"Clearly, these are a lot of people who I think were probably holding back their money," Trump said. "And now they're out and they're saying, 'OK, you guys got rid of Joe, now we're going to put our money behind the candidate."
"The sad thing I think to me, Martha, is yeah that's a big number, but there are these millionaires and billionaires ... who are willing to do anything to stop Donald Trump, no matter how bad it might be for this country," she added.
Newsweek reached out for comment to the Harris campaign via email on Monday evening.
The Harris campaign said that the $81 million included over 880,000 individual contributions from grassroots donors, with 60 percent making their first contributions of the 2024 election cycle. The number of millionaires or billionaires who may have donated to the campaign was unclear.
"The historic outpouring of support for Vice President Harris represents exactly the kind of grassroots energy and enthusiasm that wins elections," Harris campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said in a statement.
"Already, we are seeing a broad and diverse coalition come together to support our critical work of talking to the voters that will decide this election," Munoz added.
In addition to the record-breaking fundraising haul by the Harris campaign, the pro-Harris PAC Future Forward also announced on Monday that it had raised $150 million in funds since Biden dropped out of the race, according to AP.
While Harris is likely to receive some significant campaign funds from wealthy donors, the same can be said for Donald Trump, who is himself a billionaire. Earlier this month, billionaire Elon Musk reportedly pledged to make monthly donations of $45 million to a Trump-aligned PAC.
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