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Following Harris’s speech closing the convention on Thursday, the campaign also set an hourly record for donations, according to the memo. The totals include the Harris campaign, the DNC and joint fundraising committees.

Women are responsible for the unexpected windfall. One-third of those who donated during the conference were first-time donors and two-thirds were women, the memo says.

Volunteers have signed up for 200,000 shifts as the campaign seeks to translate the momentum of Congress into grassroots initiatives.

Harris and her running mate Tim Walz will travel to Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday. Trump is scheduled to give a speech on the economy on Thursday and appear at an event in Wisconsin later that day and another in Pennsylvania on Friday, his campaign said.

Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News’ parent company Bloomberg LP, has donated $10 million to the largest House Democrats’ super PAC this year. He also donated $19 million to Future Forward, the flagship super PAC supporting Harris, and $7 million to a super PAC affiliated with Everytown for Gun Safety.

Harris’ campaign appears to have mobilized both large and small donors – a turnaround from the period of uncertainty following Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June, when major donors reportedly stopped fundraising.

In addition, the movement appears to have mobilized what O’Malley Dillon called a “virtual army of volunteers,” with grassroots workers turning out in droves at the convention.

“Meanwhile, the infrastructure on Donald Trump’s battlefield remains incredibly sparse,” she said.

Less than three weeks before their September 10 debate in Philadelphia, Harris and Trump are neck and neck in the polls.

Harris, 59, a former California senator and prosecutor, left the Democratic convention in Chicago with momentum: she had garnered more votes than Trump and wiped out the lead in the polls that Trump had held before she replaced Biden on the Democratic ticket.

Trump, whose campaign collapsed after Biden’s resignation, said he had $327 million in cash at the beginning of August.

Meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he was suspending his presidential bid and would now support Trump, ending a hopeless campaign that sought to offer voters an alternative to the candidates of the major parties.

In his speech, Kennedy extensively attacked the Democratic Party, claiming that the political system was unfairly biased against independent candidates.

“In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic chance of winning the election in the face of this relentless, systematic censorship,” Kennedy said in a speech in the swing state of Arizona.

Kennedy continued to praise the Republican candidate, saying they had met in person twice in recent weeks and that Trump had offered him a position in his administration. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, Kennedy said, had not wanted to engage in similar negotiations.

By dropping out and supporting Trump over Harris, Kennedy hopes to defend his own agenda, which includes vaccine skepticism, an isolationist foreign policy and a focus on health care, while transforming himself from a pollster to a kingmaker.

Later Friday, Kennedy took the stage with Trump at the former president’s rally in Glendale, Arizona, where he was greeted with a standing ovation and chants of “Bobby.”

Trump promised that if re-elected, he would set up a new presidential commission to investigate assassination attempts, including the one that examined himself in July, and that he would declassify all remaining documents related to the 1963 assassination of Kennedy’s uncle, then-President John F. Kennedy. The National Archives said almost all of the records are available.

“Bobby and I will fight together to defeat the corrupt political establishment and return control of this country to the people and everyone who supported Bobby’s campaign. I’m simply asking you to join us in building this coalition,” Trump said.