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Join NowNEW MEMO: Harris for President Campaign Boosted by Grassroots Energy
MoveOn Breaks Records as the Harris Surge Continues
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As reported in POLITICO, MoveOn Political Action Political Director Mohammad Khan released a memo today outlining how Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy has had a galvanizing effect on the group’s members, who overwhelmingly endorsed Harris last week.
The memo outlines how MoveOn has experienced unexpected increases in donations, member sign-ups, merchandise transactions, and volunteering sign-ups since Harris entered the race on July 21. The MoveOn membership is approaching the highest action rates recorded since the height of the Trump Resistance era.
“Vice President Harris unifies the anti-Trump coalition of voters we need to turn out and win this fall,” said MoveOn Political Action Political Director Mohammad Khan. “Harris’s vast experience and proven people-first record give our members confidence that we can unite once again to defeat Trump and stop the MAGA Project 2025 agenda in its tracks. With less than 100 days until Election Day, Donald Trump’s path to the White House is now murkier and more desperate. And yet the Harris campaign, Democrats, and allied organizations like MoveOn will need to keep at it with effective, targeted campaigning to reach the disaffected and disengaged voters who are critical to defeating MAGA.”
You can read the full memo here and see key points below:
- Our grassroots fundraising efforts since Harris announced her candidacy have been through the roof. MoveOn surpassed $1 million in donations within 24 hours of Biden’s decision on July 21 to step aside and endorse Harris. In fact, the only time we have seen similar grassroots fundraising energy since 2016 is when Kamala Harris was nominated for vice president four years ago. More than 30% of all donations made in the first week after Biden announced his endorsement of Harris were new.
- More than 220,000 “Madam President” stickers have been ordered. MoveOn held the second-biggest volunteer phone bank in the organization’s history on July 25. Our postcard writing party events doubled overnight. And more than 6,000 people RSVP’d to and 20,000 people watched a MoveOn for Kamala election livestream event we held a week after the announcement, which featured Representative Nancy Pelosi signing her presidential nomination petition for Vice President Harris during the live event.
- The base is clearly reinvigorated, but our sightlines must be focused downstream with the voters who need more introduction and persuasion to vote for Harris this fall. It is critical that we continue to expand the battleground back into places like Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, while also pushing back on the efforts of Donald Trump, Republicans, and third-party MAGA spoilers like RFK Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein who aim to divide the anti-Trump coalition. MoveOn is strategically positioned to take advantage of this momentum as it engages 1.5 million younger, Democratic-leaning surge voters in battleground states and districts who are not consistent voters with a renewed appeal to vote for Democrats for our futures and our freedoms and against Trump and any MAGA-supported candidates.
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