A few days ago, President Joe Biden departed from the U.S. presidential race and blessed his vice president, Kamala Harris, to succeed him. According to the Associated Press, the vice president has secured enough support among Democratic delegates to become the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
Harris’ campaign also raised a record $81 million in the 24 hours since President Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, according to Bloomberg. Her campaign said over 888,000 grassroots donors contributed in those 24 hours. The campaign said 60% of those donors made their first contribution of the 2024 cycle, while 43,000 people committed as new recurring donors.
In addition to garnering millions in campaign donations, Forbes reports that she is assisting Beyoncé in making a comeback to the iTunes chart through a well-loved collaboration, resulting in substantial financial gains for the artists.
In one of her recent campaign events since becoming the presumptive nominee, the program was soundtracked by Beyoncé’s “Freedom,” and fans are buying the song again. The track is soaring on iTunes in the U.S. thanks to Harris, Forbes said.
On Tuesday, “Freedom” was at No. 49 on iTunes’ ranking of the best-selling songs in America. The track’s reappearance in the rankings indicates “intense and immediate buying”, Forbes wrote.
Also, the live rendition of the song, which is labeled the Homecoming Live Edition, was trending at 69 on iTunes. The song’s label comes from her Netflix documentary/album of the same name, according to Forbes.
“Freedom”, which features Kendrick Lamar, was released in 2016 on the album Lemonade. Reports say Harris received Beyoncé’s blessing to use the song on the campaign trail.
If Harris, 59, becomes the Democratic nominee and defeats Republican candidate Donald Trump in November, she would not only be the first woman to serve as president but also the first black woman and first person of South Asian descent to be president.
Harris has already achieved a lot of firsts in her more than two decades in public life. Her feats include being the first black woman to serve as San Francisco’s district attorney, the first woman to be California’s attorney general, the first Indian American senator, and the first woman vice president of the U.S.
