The numbers don’t lie — swiftly following President Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign raised $81 million in the first 24 hours of her candidacy, Axios reported. Sixty percent of donors were donating for the first time in this election cycle and nearly 30,000 new volunteers signed up to help her campaign efforts.
“First of all, those are just the numbers that are easy to quantify,” CNN commentator Von Jones told the anchor Pamela Brown on Monday. “There’s something happening that’s hard to quantify,” he explained, pointing to her newfound popularity on TikTok.
