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   CNN Updated 8:50 PM ET, Wed August 12, 2020   
      
      
   Biden raised $26 million in a day after picking Harris for VP   
      
   Washington (CNN)   
      
   Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced Wednesday   
   evening that his campaign has raised $26 million in the 24 hours since he   
   named Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate.   
      
   "The response has been overwhelming. In the last 24 hours, we've raised $26   
   million. One hundred and fifty thousand of you (were) first-time   
   contributors," Biden said at a virtual grassroots fundraiser. "It's really   
   palpable, the excitement, because    
   there's so much at stake."   
      
   The announcement came just hours after Biden and Harris appeared together for   
   the first time as running mates and a day after the former vice president   
   named Harris, a senator from California and former presidential candidate, as   
   his vice presidential    
   pick.   
      
   The spike in donations could potentially help the two Democratic candidates   
   eventually match or beat the August fundraising haul of President Donald Trump   
   and the Republican National Committee. CNN reported last week that Trump's   
   campaign and the RNC had    
   bested Biden and the Democratic National Committee's fundraising haul in July,   
   but the money gap between the two camps has essentially closed.   
      
   Trump's campaign and the RNC announced last week that their joint fundraising   
   committees had raised more than $165 million in July. That bests Biden and the   
   DNC's haul of $140 million last month.   
      
   However, Biden and the DNC ended July with $294 million on hand, the former   
   vice president's campaign said last Wednesday. That's just $6 million less   
   than the more than $300 million that Trump and the RNC reported having on hand.   
      
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