美国大选I总部信息：转化对卡马拉·哈里斯的热情为行动

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当副总统卡马拉·哈里斯在不到两周前启动她的总统竞选时，她引发了全国范围内历史性的基层热情和支持。现在，哈里斯竞选团队的任务是将这种前所未有的能量转化为行动，我们已经开始迅速展开。上周末，我们在战场州开展了迄今为止最大的组织推动，直接与将决定这次选举的选民对话。而且，我们并没有停下来。这股势头在本周继续。我们看到在亚特兰大副总统的集会上，有超过1,000名乔治亚志愿者报名参与竞选活动。

总的来说，仅在过去的12天里，志愿者们已经拨打了230万次电话，敲开了17.2万户门，并向战场州的选民发送了近290万条短信。周五，我们宣布了总统竞选历史上最好的基层筹款月。无论是通过小额捐款还是在地面上志愿服务，我们正在将对副总统的历史性热情转化为历史性的选民接触。

我们有一支志愿者大军在传播我们的信息——选民们也以创纪录的数量参加竞选活动，了解更多信息。

选民们渴望参加竞选活动，志愿者们更渴望告诉他们关于副总统的一切。关键是，对副总统候选人的热情也在吸引新支持者志愿参与和参加活动。自从副总统启动竞选以来：

1. - 130万选民报名参加全国各地的竞选活动，其中包括75万首次报名参加本轮活动的新支持者
2. - 42万选民已经参加了竞选活动，包括超过13.4万人参加了与副总统的全国组织电话会议
3. - 20万志愿者加入竞选团队，并报名参加了2.9万个敲门班次和19.7万个电话银行班次
4. - 总的来说，超过35万支持者参加了他们的第一次电话银行、集会或其他竞选活动——活动参与者增加了350%以上

我们的基层参与证明了卡马拉·哈里斯在阳光地带和蓝墙州都很强大——有多条通往270票的途径。

副总统哈里斯进入竞选后，我们表示副总统将联合一批选民，使一系列州保持竞争状态。基层数据证实了这一点——我们在蓝墙州和阳光地带的战场州都看到了强烈的热情。我们正在将这种热情转化为行动——招募了成千上万的志愿者，敲开了超过10万户门，并培训了大量新的支持者。以下是一些事实和数据：

1. - 在战场州，我们有超过6.2万个志愿者班次报名——蓝墙州有2.35万个，阳光地带有2.3万个——许多是在副总统进入竞选后报名的。
2. - 在蓝墙州和阳光地带，这些志愿者班次中近一半来自首次志愿者。
3. - 仅在蓝墙州，超过10万选民报名参加活动，志愿者们已经敲开了超过10万户门。
4. - 在乔治亚和北卡罗来纳等阳光地带州，成千上万的支持者报名参加活动——在过去的12天里，哈里斯团队在乔治亚看到了超过6.3万次报名，在北卡罗来纳看到了近4万次报名。

卡马拉·哈里斯得到了将她和拜登总统送入白宫的多元化选民联盟的强大支持和热情。

当你分析哈里斯团队的基层机器背后的数据时，很明显——我们在2020年的胜利联盟充满活力。自副总统启动竞选以来，我们从民主党核心选民中看到了历史性的热情：黑人选民、拉美裔选民、亚裔和太平洋岛裔选民、女性和年轻选民。这种热情通过主要是自发的联盟组织电话会议转化为行动，动员了数十万选民和志愿者，并带来了强有力的小额捐款。

1. 哈里斯团队的全国妇女组织电话会议有超过15.1万人参加，7月的所有捐款人中有60%是女性。
2. 与6月的筹款相比，我们在7月看到了超过10倍的Z世代捐款人和超过8倍的千禧一代捐款人。
3. 自发组织电话会议的联盟团体——如哈里斯黑人女性和哈里斯拉美裔女性——筹集了超过2000万美元。
4. 副总统成为民主党推定提名人后一周内，哈里斯团队从亚裔和太平洋岛裔捐款人那里筹集了超过50万美元。

小额捐款人推动了这次竞选。

副总统哈里斯有激发基层热情的历史——在2020年，拜登-哈里斯竞选团队在当时副总统拜登选择哈里斯作为竞选搭档后，迎来了整个竞选期间最佳的24小时基层筹款。自那时以来，这种强大的力量成倍增加。

副总统哈里斯的竞选启动带来了总统竞选历史上最好的基层筹款月——以下是一些打破纪录的筹款信息：

1. 哈里斯团队在7月筹集了超过3.1亿美元，其中2亿美元仅在副总统哈里斯候选人资格的第一周内筹集。
2. 在拜登总统支持副总统哈里斯后的四天内，哈里斯团队在基层渠道筹集的资金超过了特朗普团队在整个一个月内筹集的资金。
3. 7月有超过300万捐款人向竞选团队捐款，其中三分之二是首次捐款人。

当哈里斯团队全力推进时，特朗普竞选团队却难以跟上。

哈里斯团队能够利用这前所未有的热情，因为我们在各州已经有了强大的基础设施。我们目前在战场州有超过260个协调竞选办公室和超过1400名协调工作人员，正在投资培训并通过新的组织策略接触全国的支持者。在过去的12天里，这种强大的现有基础设施经受住了考验，并交付了——将这股热情转化为行动。在接下来的两周内，我们还将在蓝墙州增加150名工作人员，并在亚利桑那州和北卡罗来纳州将我们的工作人员人数增加一倍，以确保我们继续利用并推动对副总统的巨大热情。

同时，唐纳德·特朗普正进行一场缺乏未来愿景的挣扎竞选，他的新竞选搭档正在削弱共和党的热情，距离选举日只有三个月，他的竞选团队在赢得关键战场州所需的基础设施方面仍远远落后。例如，在内华达州，哈里斯团队有13个办公室，而特朗普只有一个。在宾夕法尼亚州，我们有36个协调办公室，而特朗普只有3个。在乔治亚州，我们有24个办公室，而特朗普团队直到6月才开设了他们的第一个办公室。

在接下来的几周里，副总统哈里斯将继续建设势头，并与特朗普分裂且不受欢迎的议程形成对比——直接向美国人民陈述她的理由，首先是与她的新副总统候选人在战场州巡回演讲，然后在本月晚些时候前往芝加哥正式接受全国民主党人的提名。

底线是：毫无疑问，这将是一场激烈的竞赛，副总统哈里斯作为劣势方开始，但哈里斯团队正在利用激增的基层能量来登记、说服、动员和吸引选民赢得11月的选举——我们有一个明确的计划，在接下来的几周内继续建立这种势头。

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TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Harris for President Battleground States Director Dan Kanninen
DATE: August 3, 2024
SUBJECT: Turning Enthusiasm into Action for Kamala Harris 
When Vice President Kamala Harris launched her campaign for President just shy of two weeks ago, she ignited a historic groundswell of grassroots enthusiasm and support from across the country. Now, it is the task of the Harris campaign to turn the unprecedented energy behind the Vice President into action, and we’re off to a running start. Last weekend, we mobilized the campaign’s biggest organizing push yet across the battleground states to talk directly to the voters who will decide this election. And, we didn’t stop there. The momentum continued this week. We saw over 1,000 Georgia volunteers sign up to get involved with the campaign at the Vice President’s rally in Atlanta. 

All together, in the last 12 days alone, volunteers have placed 2.3 million phone calls, knocked 172,000 doors, and sent nearly 2.9 million text messages to voters in battleground states. On Friday, we announced the best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history. Whether it’s through small dollar donations or volunteering on the ground, we are transforming the historic enthusiasm for the Vice President into historic levels of voter contact. 

We have an army of volunteers spreading our message - and voters are showing up to campaign events in record numbers to learn more. 

Voters are eager to show up to campaign events and volunteers are even more eager to tell them all about the Vice President. Critically, enthusiasm for the Vice President’s candidacy is also driving new supporters to volunteer and attend events. Since the Vice President launched her campaign:

• 1.3 million voters signed up for campaign events across the country, including 750,000 new supporters who are signing up for events for the first time this cycle
• 420,000 voters already attended campaign events, including over 134,000 attendees to the National Organizing Call with the Vice President.
• 200,000 volunteers joined the campaign and signed up for 29,000 canvass shifts and 197,000 phone banking shifts.
• All in all, over 350,000 supporters attended their first phone bank, rally, or other campaign event—an over 350% increase in event attendees. 

Our grassroots engagement is proving that Kamala Harris is strong in both the Sunbelt and the Blue Wall - with multiple pathways to 270. 

Immediately following Vice President Harris’ entrance into the race, we said that the Vice President would bring together a coalition of voters to keep a wide set of states in play. Well, the grassroots data confirms it – we’re seeing strong enthusiasm across the battlegrounds, both in the Blue Wall states and in the Sunbelt. We are turning that enthusiasm into action - signing up tens of thousands of volunteers, knocking on over 100,000 doors and training scores of new supporters. A few facts and figures here:

• In battleground states, we have over 62,000 volunteer shift sign-ups — 23,500 in Blue Wall states and 23,000 in the Sunbelt – many of which came after the Vice President’s entrance into the race.
• Almost half of these volunteer shifts, both in the Blue Wall states and the Sunbelt, are coming from first-time volunteers.
• In the Blue Wall States alone, over 100,000 voters have signed up to attend events and volunteers have already knocked over 100,000 doors.
• And in Sunbelt states like Georgia and North Carolina, tens of thousands of supporters are signing up for events – in the last 12 days, Team Harris has seen over 63,000 sign-ups in Georgia and nearly 40,000 in North Carolina.

Kamala Harris has strong support and enthusiasm from the diverse coalition of voters that sent her and President Biden to the White House in 2020.

When you break down the data behind Team Harris’ grassroots machine it’s clear — our winning coalition from 2020 is energized. Since the Vice President launched her campaign, we’ve seen historic enthusiasm from key parts of the Democratic base: Black voters, Latino voters, AANHPI voters, women, and young voters. This enthusiasm is translating into action through largely organic coalition organizing calls that have mobilized hundreds of thousands of voters and volunteers - and resulted in powerful small-dollar donations. 

• Team Harris’ Women for Harris National Organizing Call had over 151,000 attendees and 60% of all donors in July were women.
• Compared to our June fundraising haul, we saw more than 10x the number of Gen Z donors, and more than 8x the number of Millennial donors in July.
• Coalition groups that organized calls since launch – like Black Women for Harris and Latinas for Harris – raised more than $20 million.
• Team Harris raised over half a million dollars from AANHPI donors in the week after the vice president became the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Small dollar donors are powering this campaign.

Vice President Harris has a history of driving grassroots enthusiasm – in 2020 the Biden-Harris campaign had its best 24 hours of grassroots fundraising of the entire race following then Vice President Biden’s selection of Harris as his running mate. That formidable power has exponentially intensified in the time since.

The launch of Vice President Harris’ campaign spurred the best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history – some key nuggets about the record-shattering haul:

• Team Harris raised more than $310 million in July with $200 million of that raise alone coming in during the first week of Vice President Harris’ candidacy.
• Team Harris raised more across grassroots channels in the four days following President Biden’s endorsement of Vice President Harris than Trump’s operation raised in the entire month.
• More than 3 million donors contributed to the campaign in July, two-thirds of them first time donors.

While Team Harris is barnstorming, the Trump campaign is struggling to keep up. 

Team Harris was able to capitalize on this unprecedented enthusiasm because we already had a strong infrastructure in the states. We currently have more than 260 coordinated campaign offices and more than 1,400 coordinated staff across the battleground states that are making investments in training and reaching supporters across the country with new organizing tactics. This strong existing infrastructure has been put to the test over the last 12 days, and delivered — mobilizing the surge of enthusiasm into action. In the next two weeks, we will also add 150 more staff to the Blue Wall and more than double our staff in Arizona and North Carolina to ensure we continue to capitalize and drive the enormous enthusiasm for the Vice President. 

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is running a flailing campaign with no vision for the future, his brand new running mate is depressing Republican enthusiasm, and with only three months until Election Day, his campaign still lags far behind in the infrastructure needed to win in key battleground states. For example, in Nevada, Team Harris has 13 offices, while Trump has just one. In Pennsylvania, we have 36 coordinated offices while Trump has just 3. In Georgia, we have 24 offices while the Trump team didn’t open their first until June. 

Over the next several weeks, Vice President Harris will continue to build on the momentum, and draw the contrast with Trump’s divisive and unpopular agenda - taking her case directly to the American people, starting with a tour across the battleground states with her new VP pick before heading to Chicago later this month to officially accept the party’s nomination from Democrats from around the country. 

The bottom line: There is no question that this is going to be a close race and Vice President Harris starts as the underdog, but Team Harris is harnessing the surging grassroots energy to register, persuade, mobilize, and turn out voters to win in November - and we have a clear plan to build on this momentum over the coming weeks. 

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