Harris campaign sees surge in Michigan volunteers

BY JON KING, MICHIGAN ADVANCE

MICHIGAN—Donations are not the only thing the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris has seen a record-breaking increase in; so, too, are the number of people volunteering for the campaign.

According to the Harris campaign’s Michigan team, talking to Michigan Advance on background, in the 48 hours after Sunday’s announcement by President Joe Biden that he was withdrawing from the race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, they saw their largest days of volunteer recruitment of the campaign.

The “significant, measurable increase in grassroots recruitment for volunteers” resulted in more than 1,500 volunteers joining the effort, bringing the total number to 3,000 people signed up to work with the campaign online.

Additionally, the campaign says dozens of Michiganders showed up at volunteer events for the first time ever, as well as meeting with organizers at field offices to learn how they could get involved with the campaign.

That tracks with reporting on a new memo from the national Harris campaign Wednesday morning which indicated over 100,000 people signed up to volunteer since Sunday.

The surge in monetary enthusiasm has not abated either.

As the Advance reported Tuesday, Charles Gaba, a Michigan health care analyst and Democratic activist who helps fundraise for other Democrats across the country through his website blue24.org, said that in that same approximately 48 hour period donations through his site to Harris’ campaign raised more than $2.5 million.

By mid-day Wednesday, Gaba said it was at $3.2 million. That’s all part of $126 million the national campaign had raised since Sunday.

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