First Harris-Walz ads go viral as Democratic donations surge

In the five hours since the Harris for President campaign announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is the Vice President's pick to be her running mate, millions of dollars have flooded into ActBlue, Democrats' umbrella fundraising platform. And in just 40 minutes, the Harris-Walz campaign's first ad, introducing Gov. Walz, was viewed over one million times on the social media platform X. It took just 23 minutes for the campaign's second ad to hit one million views.

According to the popular ActBlue Tracker, on Tuesday, over $18 million has poured in (although not all earmarked for the Harris-Walz campaign) as of 3:00 PM ET. That's more than any other day in the past week – Wednesday, July 31 saw $27 million in ActBlue donations.

The Harris campaign, now the Harris-Walz campaign, has been in existence for just 16 days. The two Democrats appeared together publicly for the first time in Philadelphia on Tuesday. They will travel together to swing states over the next week, visiting Detroit, Michigan and Eau Claire, Wisconsin (both Wednesday), Raleigh, North Carolina (Thursday), Phoenix, Arizona (Friday), and Vegas, Nevada (Saturday).

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Donald Trump this week is scheduled to visit Bozeman, Montana.

Watch the Harris-Walz ads at this link.

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