VP Kamala Harris rakes in over $300 million, as she secures 2024 Democrat Party nomination

4:00 P.M. IN NEW YORK CITY. I'M JOHN HEILEMANN IN FOR NICOLLE WALLACE ON A DAY WHERE HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE. THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCING THAT THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS SECURED THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION MAKING HER THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO BE AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET FOR A MAJOR PARTY AS A PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. THE RESULTS WON'T BE OFFICIAL UNTIL THE ROLL CALL CLOSED ON MONDAY. BUT THIS AFTERNOON HARRIS CROSSED THE DELEGATE THRESHOLD TO CLINCH THE NOMINATION DURING A VIRTUAL ROLL CALL. HE DIALED KNEE A CAMPAIGN SHORTLY AFTER THAT MOMENT AND HERE IS WHAT SHE SAID. >> HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE, I SAY TO ALL OF THE FRIENDS ON THE CALL, WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS ELECTION, AND IT IS GOING TO TAKE ALL OF US, WHETHER IT IS MAKING CALLS, CONNECTING WITH OUR COMMUNITIES, ENGAGING ONLINE, ORRINE TALKING WITH PEOPLE WHERE WE GO EVERY DAY, WHETHER IT BE TO THE GROCERY STORE, OUR CHURCH, WE ARE GOING TO TALK WITH PEOPLE ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, AND WE STAND TOGETHER. AND SO LET'S LET FOLKS KNOW THAT OUR CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT THE FUTURE, AND IT'S ABOUT AN EXPANSION OF THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS AND FOR OPPORTUNITY OF EVERYONE, NOT JUST TO GET BY, BUT TO GET AHEAD. >> HARRIS WILL ACCEPT THE NOMINATION IN CHICAGO AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION? JUST UNDER 3 WEEKS. JOE BIDEN POSTED THIS PHOTO OF THE TWO OF THEM TOGETHER AND TWEETED, QUOTE, ONE OF THE BEST DECISIONS I'VE MADE WAS PICKING KAMALA HARRIS AS MY VICE PRESIDENT. NOW SHE WILL BE OUR PARTY'S NOMINEE. I COULDN'T BE PROUDER. LET'S WIN THIS. VICE PRESIDENT CLINCHING THE NOMINATION, CAPS OFF A REMARKABLE SECOND WEEK FOR THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN. THIS MORNING CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCED THAT IT HAD RAISED A WHOPPING $310 MILLION THIS MONTH, MORE THAN DOUBLE OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN RAISED IN THAT SAME TIME. "THE WASHINGTON POST" REPORTS THIS ON WHAT IS BEHIND THE FUNDRAISING STATS. TWO-THIRDS OF THE $310 MILLION RAISED IN JULY CAME FROM FIRST-TIME DONORS, AN INDICATION OF THE MOMENTUM THAT HARRIS BUILT AFTER BIDEN DROPPED OUT. SOME 94% OF THOSE DONATIONS WERE UNDER $200 AND IN A SIGN OF THE ENTHUSIASM AROUND HER CAMPAIGN EXTENDS BEYOND JUST MEMES ONLINE, THE POST SAID THAT HER CAMPAIGN REPORTED HAVING TEN TIMES THE NUMBER OF DONORS IN JULY AS THE PREVIOUS MONTH FROM GEN Z AND EIGHT TIMES THE NUMBER OF MILLENNIAL VOTERS AND 60% OF DONORS IN JULY WERE WOMEN. AND IT IS A WEEK IN WHICH THE DIPLOMATIC WORK HAS PAID OFF IN SPADE. SHE GREETS THREE OF THE AMERICANS DETAINED BY THE RUSSIA GOVERNMENT. HERE SHE IS WITH EVAN GERSHKOVICH. THAT PRISONER SWAP, THE LARGEST SINCE THE COLD WAR, IS THE CULMINATION OF YEARS OF WORK THAT INCLUDES HARRIS PERSONALLY LOBBYING EUROPEAN ALLIES. NOW, TEAM K, PREPARING FOR THE FIGHT AHEAD AFTER MANY SPECULATION ABOUT WHAT -- WHO HARRIS MIGHT BRING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE TO HELP RUN HER CAME. AND IN SENIOR POSITIONS, SHE ANNOUNCED A NUMBER OF KEY PLAYERS FROM OBAMA'S WINNING CAMPAIGNS IN 2008 AND 2012. TWO OF THEM WILL BE HIGHLY FAMILIAR TO VIEWERS OF THIS NETWORK. DAVID PLOUFFE, WHO WAS BARACK OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER IN 2008, SENIOR ADVISER IN 2012 AND AS RESPONSIBLE OTHER THAN BARACK OBAMA FOR PUTTING HIM IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND JENNIFER PALMIERI AND THE COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR FOR HILLARY CLINTON AND ONE OF MY CO-HOSTS ON SHOWTIMES THE CIRCUS. ALL OF THIS A PRELUDE TO THE BIGGEST DECISION, THE ONE THAT SHE REALLY HAS TO GET RIGHT, AND AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, THAT IS HER CHOICE FOR VICE PRESIDENT. THAT IS GOING TO BE COMING SOMETIME VERY SOON. AND THAT, THAT IS WHERE WE START TODAY. JOINING US, MICHAEL STEELE, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE AND HOST OF THE WEEKEND. PLUS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS EMILY REYNOLDS AND HOST OF POLITICS NATION AND PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK REVEREND AL SHARPTON. REV, I WANT YOU TO START WITH YOU. BECAUSE YOU ARE HERE IN FRONT OF ME. RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IS HARD. AND IF YOU GET INTO THE POSITION THAT KAMALA HARRIS HAS BEEN PUT IN. IT IS REALLY HARD. AND LAST TWO WEEKS, I WOULD SAY SHE'S BEEN FLAWLESS AS A CANDIDATE. I'M CURIOUS IF YOU COULD TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE SEEN FROM HER IN THE TWO WEEKS AND THE TEAM SHE'S BUILT AND THE MOMENTUM THAT SHE'S SUMMONED, WHAT HAS IMPRESSED YOU MOST IN THAT TWO-WEEK SPAN? >> I THINK THAT SHE HAS BEEN FLAWLESS, WHICH IS WHAT HAS IMPRESSED ME MOST. BECAUSE FOR YOUR WHOLE WORLD TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN, UNEXPECTEDLY AND WITHOUT PREPARATION, AND SHE HANDLED IT WITH BALANCE AND GRACE, AND THAT SHE WAS PREPARED SHOWS SOMETHING THAT I THINK NONE OF US EXPECTED SHE COULD DO AS WELL AS SHE'S DONE. I SAW HER YESTERDAY. WE BOTH SPOKE AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF CONGRESSWOMAN SHEILA JACKSON LEE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. AND YOU GOT THE SENSE, AS SHE CAME ON STAGE AND EMBRACED ALL OF US, THAT SHE HAS TOTALLY EMBRACED THIS. SHE'S IN THE MOMENT. SHE'S COMFORTABLE IN HER SKIN. AND IT TAKES THAT TO REALLY RUN THIS KIND OF CAMPAIGN. THAT YOU'RE NOT BEING SHAPED AND MOLDED. YOU OWN THIS. AND SHE GAVE ME THAT KIND OF AIR YESTERDAY WHEN SHE TOOK THE CAMPAIGN, THE NIGHT THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN WITHDREW, I TALKED TO HER ON THE PHONE. I THINK SHE'S READY FOR THIS. AND SHE HAS THE SECURITY TO BUILD A TEAM AROUND HER, NOT YES MEN OR WOMEN, OR NOT A FAN CLUB, BUT PEOPLE THAT WILL SAY STRATEGICALLY WE NEED TO DO, THEY'VE BEEN TO THESE BATTLES BEFORE AND I THINK BY HER PUTTING EXPERTS ON DOES NOT NECESSARILY COME FROM AN INNER CIRCLE SHOWS HOW SECURE SHE IS IN WHO SHE IS. >> CHRISTINE REYNOLDS, YOU NOW WORK AT EMILLY'S LIST BUT WE'VE WORKED ON VARIOUS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS INCLUDING HILLARY CLINTON BACK THERE 2016. I WAN TO PLAY KAMALA HARRIS THIS WEEK, SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS AND THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF WHAT SHE'S LOOKED LIKE OUT THERE INCLUDING THE RALLY IN ATLANTA ON TUESDAY AND TALK TO YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE SEEN IN TERMS OF HIS ABILITIES AS A POLITICAL ATHLETE. LET'S PLAY THAT NOW. >> DONALD TRUMP SPOKE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS. AND IT WAS THE SAME OLD SHOW. THE DIVISIVENESS, AND THE DISRESPECT. AND LET ME JUST SAY, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE BETTER. >> DONALD TRUMP, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAS BEEN TALKING A BIG GAME ABOUT SECURING OUR BORDER, BUT HE DOES NOT WALK THE WALK, OR AS MY FRIEND KUFO WOULD SAY, HE DOES NOT WALK IT LIKE HE TALKS IT. >> SO, LAST WEEK YOU MAY HAVE SEEN, HE PULLED OUT OF THE DEBATE IN SEPTEMBER HE HAD PREVIOUSLY AGREED TO. WELL, DONALD, I DO HOPE YOU'LL RECONSIDER TO MEET ME ON THE DEBATE STAGE. BECAUSE AS THE SAYING GOES, IF YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY, SAY IT TO MY FACE. >> CHRISTINA, JUST FOR HISTORY, CERTAINLY THE FIRST TIME A PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE HAS INTRODUCED AMIGO AND ONE THING THAT I CAN'T IMAGINE JOE BIDEN HAVING DONE IF HES WITH STILL THE NOMINEE. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE SEEN FROM NOMINEE HARRIS OVER THE LAST WEEK IN PARTICULAR? >> I MEAN, YOU SAID IT. SHE'S BEEN FLAWLESS. AND I'M NOT SHOCKED BY IT. BUT SINCE WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OLYMPICS AS A POLITICAL ATHLETE, SHE'S WINNING THE GOLD. SHE LOOKS CONFIDENT AND LIKE SHE'S HAVING FUN. SHE'S LAYING OUT AN INCREDIBLE MESSAGE, THIS IDEA THAT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE AMERICA FORWARD, THAT WE DON'T WANT TO GO BACK, THAT WE CHOOSE FREEDOM. ALL OF THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE CAMERALY COMPELLING TO VOTERS. AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE AS SHE LAYS OUT FURTHER DETAILS ON HER VISION AND HER AGENDA. SHE'S CRUSHING IT. PUT SIMPLY. AND I'M NOT THAT SURPRISED BY IT. I THINK THE REALITY IS, AS VICE PRESIDENT, AND PARTICULARLY SINCE THIS CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED, SHE'S GOTTEN LESS ATTENTION. WE NEVER PAY ATTENTION TO THE VPs. WHO COULD TELL ME WHAT MIKE PENCE DID AS VP. BUT SHE HAS SORT OF QUIETLY MOVED AROUND THE COUNTRY WITHOUT AS MUCH PRESS ATTENTION, BUT SHE'S BEEN TALKING TO YOUNG VOTERS, SHE'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT ISSUES LIKE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, LIKE GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION, LIKE DEMOCRACY AND VOTING RIGHTS. AND SHE'S BEEN WINNING VOTERS OVER. AND SO I'M NOT SHOCKED THAT THIS