Kamala Harris pulled in at least $1 million from ZIP codes where most residents are not white, about two-and-a-half times the total of Beto O'Rourke, who was second to Harris.
WASHINGTON — On a sunny Sunday afternoon in late March, just after she had spoken from the pulpit at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Sen. Kamala Harris made her way to a 6,500-square-foot mansion in a decidedly upscale neighborhood called Peachtree Battle.
The common thread at the two fundraising events, both of which were held in overwhelmingly white neighborhoods: Most of the donors were people of color. "That is indicative of the efforts that Harris has put into making donors from the minority community feel welcome and supported and aware of the fact that there are donors in the black community that generally haven't been touched in the way that this campaign has," said Susan Pease Langford, a lawyer who co-hosted the Atlanta fundraiser. Langford is the mother-in-law of former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and grandmother of Maria Reed, the 4-year-old who spoke French with Harris.
Just outside Washington, in Prince George's County, Maryland, which takes in some of the most affluent African American suburbs in the country, Harris has received contributions totaling more than $26,000 from 17 majority-black ZIP codes. That includes at least $11,000 from 20721, where the median household income tops $120,000 a year and the population is 85 percent black, according to the Census Bureau. No other candidate topped $1,800 for those 17 ZIP codes combined.
"She articulated the problems that affect and concern all Americans," said Stephens, who is black."Women aren’t looking at this from a race perspective. We’re looking at it as who can get Trump the hell out of office and all the people with him. ... It's an honesty issue. It's a character issue."
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