Harris Democratic Party ‘small donations’ surge by 1.5 million, Lee Jae-myung’s voter turnout rate ‘symmetrical’ by 40%
As the number of ‘small donors’ surged by 1.5 million in the US Democratic Party presidential candidate Harris, the core of democratic elections showed a decisive influence on the campaign rather than party members.
In the days immediately after President Biden left office, Democratic candidate Harris received overwhelming support from small donors, and Lee Jae-myung, the leader of party member sovereignty who was re-elected at the Democratic National Convention, showed extreme symmetry by winning with ‘85% of the votes from 40% of mobile phone responses’ without announcing the party member voter turnout rate despite having 5 million party members.
According to Democratic Party donor data submitted to the Federal Election Commission, more than 1.5 million new small donors donated to Harris’s campaign in the last 11 days of July. On July 21, when President Biden withdrew from the race, there were more than 500,000, or about 1 million people, and on July 22, about 680,000 people donated to the Democratic presidential campaign through ActBlue, the official fundraising platform of the Democratic Party.
The National Assembly will disclose the details of donations by major donors in October, and at that time, the fundraising committee of the campaign headquarters must submit a report to the Federal Election Commission, and small amounts can be searched for on the National Election Commission's data.
The average age of existing Biden donors was mainly in their 60s, and Harris donors were in their 50s, according to the National Election Commission.
The US presidential election gained momentum on July 11, when the Democratic Party announced that the Harris campaign headquarters had raised "more than $310 million in fundraising in the last 10 days of July, more than double that of President Trump," right after Biden's withdrawal.
In its own analysis, the New York Times compared donors to aggregated readers based on zip code aggregation areas. Donors are adults with a bachelor’s degree and 25 years of age or older who have donated to the Harris campaign, Harris Action Fund, and Harris Victory Fund (previously Biden, Biden Action Fund, and Biden Victory Fund) online by ActBlue, a Democratic platform, based on their names, addresses, and ZIP codes.
Donors are classified as former Biden donors if they donated between April 25, 2023, when the Biden campaign was announced, and July 20, 2024, using a unique combination of first name, last name, and ZIP code; Harris is the primary donor after that.
In terms of age, only 10% of Biden’s donors were under 45 in July, compared to 28% for Harris.
17% of Harris’s new donors were women under 45, more than double Biden’s share of younger female donors. In terms of donors by young male voters, Harris’s donors accounted for a larger portion.
In all age groups, more than 60% of donors to President Biden and Vice President Harris were women.
In analyzing the donors to President Biden and Vice President Harris, the New York Times said about geographic criteria, “Harris’ donors were slightly more likely to come from areas with higher levels of education,” and “ZIP codes where more than half of the population over 25 had a bachelor’s degree were the first to have a slightly higher proportion of small donors in ZIP codes where more than 5% of the population was black, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau.”
At the Democratic National Convention, Democrats expressed their support for Harris, and Harris gave a speech in which she said, “We are forging a path forward together.”
A Democratic strategist announced the strategy for this election as “Bridging the Gap Between Democracy and Freedom.” The Democratic Party National Convention led by Lee Jae-myung opened an era of ‘member sovereignty 20% voter turnout’ in the Honam region, with ‘member online ARS voter turnout rates below 40%’ based on ‘member support’ and ‘member sovereignty 20% voter turnout rates’ of 20.28% in Jeollabuk-do, 23.17% in Jeollanam-do, and 25.29% in Gwangju.
Candidate Kim Du-kwan, who lost, said of the low voter turnout rate of the party convention electoral college, saying, “It’s only 30%, and if we get only 16%, which is a majority, we can take the party leadership,” referring to the party members who have ‘paid party dues for 1,000 won for 6 months’.
In the last general election nomination, Representative Lee exercised the right to nominate based on ‘member sovereignty’ and proposed a method of ‘maintaining member sovereignty by having party members who have not paid their dues pay their dues in advance’.
Lee Jae-myung's party member sovereignty, which was hastily created to control the general election candidates, is showing a confrontation with the voluntary participation of the people in the party by the US Democratic Party, which links the national convention to the victory in the presidential election, as the strengthening of the party member exclusionism becomes more blatant.