Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris appeared to be preparing for an uphill fight last week, telling potential supporters that “we are the underdogs.”
The remark from Harris reportedly came during a fundraising event with around 800 people in Massachusetts.
“We got a fight ahead of us, and we are the underdogs,” she said, according to NPR. “But this is a people-powered campaign, and we have momentum.”
The Associated Press reports that Harris brought in around $1.4 million from the fundraiser, though it was only expected to bring in around $400,000 when it was initially scheduled for President Biden.
In attendance included musician James Taylor, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), former Gov. Deval Patrick (D), and Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA).
In her first week of campaigning for the White House, Harris has raised more than $200 million, with a record $81 million being raised in the first 24 hours of her candidacy.
Still, despite the enthusiasm for her campaign following President Biden’s decision to step down, the vice president is continuing to push hard.
“Let us make no mistake. This campaign is not just about us vs. Donald Trump,” Harris said. “As we fight to move our nation forward, Donald Trump intends to take our country backward.”
Harris said that Trump has resorted to telling “some wild lies” about her record. Trump did say during his appearances last week that Harris was a “radical leftist lunatic” who was responsible for “ruining San Francisco” when she was the District Attorney there.
“I’ve been dealing with people like him my entire career,” she added. “So in this campaign, and I say in all seriousness, I will proudly put my record against his any day.”
She also criticized the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), saying that what he said last week about people without children was “just plain weird.”
“I mean, that’s the box you put that in, right?” Harris remarked.
The Democratic National Convention is now less than a month away, and Harris remains the only major candidate to announce their bid for the nominee.