Vice President Kamala Harris claimed a stunning $231 million from small and big donors in the first 24 hours since she launched her presidential campaign.

In a huge vote of confidence for her still-nascent campaign, Harris won $81 million in small-dollar donations and reportedly scored an additional $150 million “money bomb” from big donors in what amounted to the biggest one-day haul of the 2024 election cycle.

The money bomb, including a reported $11 million haul in a single hour Sunday, signals rising enthusiasm among rank-and-file Democrats after President Biden stepped down from the race and handed the baton to Harris to take on former President Trump.

Campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt said Harris had raised $49.6 million in donations in the first 15 hours after Biden’s endorsement. She said that number swelled to $80 million later in the day Monday.

It wasn’t only small donors stepping up to support Harris.

Future Forward, the flagship super PAC that was working to reelect Biden, scored $150 million in fresh funding pledges from major Democratic donors in the 24 hours since he ended his campaign and endorsed Harris, Politico first reported.

The PAC, which will now pivot to backing Harris, already had $122 million on hand as of the end of June, according to Federal Election Commission filings, the site reported.

Several Democratic megadonors said they would resume donating to the Democratic ticket after withholding donations to pressure Biden into stepping aside.

“I am supporting her with all my heart,” announced Abigail Disney, a filmmaker who is an heir to the Disney fortune.

On Sunday afternoon, Biden’s campaign formally changed its name to Harris for President, reflecting that she will inherit his political operation of more than 1,000 staffers and a war chest that stood at nearly $96 million at the end of June.

The spigot of cash marks a massive turnaround for relatively moribund Democratic fundraising in recent weeks.

Some Biden loyalists chipped in to boost his war chest in the days after his disappointing showing in debate against Trump. But overall their numbers sagged and big donors were said to have stopped writing checks in an effort to nudge Biden to the campaign exits.

Meanwhile, an ascendent Trump was already scoring big cash infusions from small-dollar MAGA donors since his conviction on 34 felony counts in the Manhattan hush money trial.

He won huge new funding pledges as business and tech leaders scrambled to get on his good side.

Tesla mogul Elon Musk, who earlier in the year insisted he wouldn’t bankroll Trump, said he would give an eye-popping $45 million a month to boost the GOP election effort.

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