- After Obama’s Endorsement, White Women Raise $2m In Zoom meeting For Her Campaign
- Leads Trump In New Nationwide Poll In US
Despite the bravado by former President Donald Trump that Vice President Kamala Harris will be easier to defeat than President Joe Biden, there is palpable tension in the camp of the former president has the stature of the vice president has continued to soar in recent days.
Earlier on Friday, former President Barack Obama became the latest high profiled American to throw his weight behind Kamala Harris.
The Matrix reports that President Joe Biden threw in the towel in th presidential race last week after so much pressure paving the way for the emergence of Kamala Harris.
Since her emergence, many has rallied support for her and she appears set to emerge as America’s first female president.
Pop stars like Cardi B and Beyonce with huge following have also ramped up support for her.
In the area of funding, more than 164,000 white women gathered online on Friday and raised nearly $2 million for American vice president and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris.
Dubbed ‘White Women: Answer the Call,’ the occasion became the largest Zoom meeting in history
The event, which rallied women across America to support Harris, featured notable personalities, among them pop star Pink and actress Connie Britton, who spoke passionately about Harris’s qualifications and the importance of supporting her campaign.
Prominent activist Shannon Watts, who organised the meeting, noted that it was the first Zoom call ever to surpass 100,000 participants and announced that grassroots donations soared past the $1 million mark within the first hour and eventually got close to $2 million.
The event’s success extended beyond Zoom when the platform experienced glitches due to the high volume of participants, prompting many to switch to YouTube to keep watching the live stream.
The event’s success has been described as a testament to the collective impact that women can make in politics.
“150k white women on #AnswerTheCall to support a woman of colour. There are no words to describe what I’ve been feeling the past few days. I thought seeing Obama get elected was the highlight of my life, but I was wrong. This is history,” an X user remarked.
On the political front, her stature is also on the increase exponentially as she is narrowly leading Trump in a national presidential poll released Tuesday, Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Reuters reports that the poll compares with a marginal two-point deficit Biden faced against Trump in last week’s poll before his Sunday exit from the race.
The new poll was conducted on Monday and Tuesday, and came after both the Republican National Convention, where Trump on Thursday, formally accepted the nomination and Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he was leaving the race and endorsing Harris.
Harris, whose campaign says she has secured the Democratic nomination, led Trump 44% to 42% in the national poll, a difference within the 3-percentage-point margin of error.
Harris and Trump were tied at 44% in a July 15-16 poll, and Trump led by one percentage point in a July 1-2 poll, both within the same margin of error.
Reuters noted that while nationwide surveys give important signals of Americans support for political candidates, a handful of competitive states typically tilt the balance in the U.S.
Electoral College ultimately decides who wins a presidential election
