--- title: Here's What Kamala Harris' Campaign Has Planned for Week 2 description: "This campaign is getting to work and taking nothing for granted,” a spokesman said, laying out plans for a Georgia rally and a hiring spree canonical: https://time.com/7005213/kamala-harris-schedule-georgia-texas/ author: Brian Bennett article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-07-30T09:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-19T07:45:13.122Z article:section: Politics og:title: Here's What Kamala Harris' Campaign Has Planned for Week 2 og:description: remarkable first week as a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris' second week includes an Atlanta rally and a campaign hiring spree og:url: https://time.com/7005213/kamala-harris-schedule-georgia-texas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b6e5ccde1e2784e/698a596309208f4f8e41d70b/GettyImages-2162789247.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Vice President Kamala Harris Delivers A Keynote At The American Federation of Teachers' 88th National Convention In Houston og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What Kamala Harris' Campaign Has Planned for Week 2 twitter:description: remarkable first week as a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris' second week includes an Atlanta rally and a campaign hiring spree twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b6e5ccde1e2784e/698a596309208f4f8e41d70b/GettyImages-2162789247.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How the Harris Campaign Intends to Keep Up the Momentum in Its Second Week > Sponsored content. 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On July 20, 2024, President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was ending his campaign for reelection and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him._  by [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/)  ## Brian Bennett Bennett is a former senior White House correspondent at TIME. Jul 30, 2024 9:00 AM UTC On July 20, 2024, President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was ending his campaign for reelection and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him.  by [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/)  ## Brian Bennett Bennett is a former senior White House correspondent at TIME. Jul 30, 2024 9:00 AM UTC After a remarkable first week as a presidential candidate in which she pulled even with Donald Trump in polls and injected new enthusiasm into the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris is sprinting to convert the summer-time flush of excitement into votes in November. The Harris for President campaign is moving quickly to add to the paid staff installed by the Biden campaign across the country, including hiring 150 staffers during the first two weeks of August to deploy in the so-called Blue Wall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. That would bring Harris’ total campaign staff in those states to 750 people, up from 600\. In Arizona and North Carolina, Harris plans to double the size of her campaign staff, a sign that her strategists believe those states are back in play after some in the party had suggested they had become unwinnable when President Joe Biden was still at the top of the ticket. “This election is going to be incredibly close, so this campaign is getting to work and taking nothing for granted,” Harris for President communications director Michael Tyler told reporters during a conference call on Monday afternoon. Campaign data shows a lot of Democratic voters who had been holding back for Biden immediately got off the sideline last week to back Harris. Of the $200 million Harris has raised since Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, two-thirds came from people who hadn’t donated so far this cycle, her campaign said Monday. And her campaign signed up a striking 360,000 new volunteers in its first week. Harris Campaign officials believe that the extensive network they had already built for Biden is kicking into high gear for the Vice President. Over the weekend, volunteers knocked on 126,000 doors and made 768,635 phone calls, a Harris campaign official said, far more than campaign leaders had anticipated at this stage in the campaign. Harris will hold a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta on Tuesday evening and meet with local advocates for reproductive rights, an issue her campaign believes will be decisive for voters in close states. Almost immediately, Harris’ campaign has captured the momentum in the race, while gaining traction with framing Trump as “weird” and his running mate J.D. Vance as a callous critic of “childless cat ladies.” Speaking at a rally in St. Cloud, Minn. on Saturday, Trump tried to kick back at Harris calling her “a radical left lunatic” and mocking the way she laughs. But so far, the critiques of Harris from the right haven’t dampened the energy behind her run. It’s an unusual position for Trump, who has built his political career by dominating the news cycle with unexpected and outlandish comments, and as recently as mid-July seemed ascendant in the race following the assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pa. Dan Kanninen, the battleground state director for Harris, said the campaign "will not get comfortable.” In addition to campaigning in Georgia, Harris will travel to Houston on Thursday to attend Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's funeral service. Also this week, Harris’s staff is working to vet vice presidential candidates with an eye to her being able to pick a running mate by next week. ## Transcript Oh. At the state and city level, they were known as political machines. They would trade jobs and government contracts, and they would fight over who the nominee was going to be at the national level. President Lyndon Johnson of Texas, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. Those party organizations begin to lose strength as you go through the 20th century. You hear a lot of talk about reform, and attention starts to focus on, well, could voters really have a say in nominating the candidates? Doesn't really go anywhere except in the South. Where the primary becomes the tool used by the white supremacist to make sure that the whites wouldn't be splitting their votes and a Black candidate winning. Move up into the 60s, and the primers are still they're there, but they're not dominant. It's still kind of the party machine, party organizations, a state, national level that are making those choices. So you move into 1968, Lyndon Johnson who was running for president, but he is weak because of the Vietnam War. He has a very close election win in the state of New Hampshire. As a result of that, and seeing that it was going to be a slog for Johnson to win the party's nomination, he surprisingly pulls out I shall not see. And I will not accel. The nomination of my party for another term as your president. He's Vice president, Hubert Humphrey jumps into the race. And Humphrey is organizing that state and national Party apparatus that Johnson had behind him so that by the time you roll around to the convention in Chicago, Humphrey's already, in effect, won the nomination, even though he did not run in a single primary. Now, that is the old party structure. But parallel to it, you had folks like Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy running in the primaries, and they were winning. I did not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man. That the proposed new py. Kennedy, of course, is killed by an assassin. Eugene McCarthy rolls into Chicago, and him and his supporters are outraged that Humphrey is going to be nominated, even though he has not won even a majority of the delegates through the primary system. Humphreys playing by the rules of the game. They've just they've lost credibility over the decades. Chicago was an extraordinary moment in 1968. You've got mass protest over the Vietnam War and also great resistance to the economic inequality, racial injustice in the country. The Chicago political structures controlled by Mayor Daley, who is outraged by these signs of protest. And as later reports would conclude, there was a police riot. The police just went crazy, and they were beating up the protesters outside the Democratic convention. This is on the streets is Mayhem. Well, they all have different points of view, and there are some powerful leaders. So they get down to a convention, and you can expect to have something happen. We have one factor that seems to heal to cause a healing process to speed up, and that is the Republican opposition. As the convention is coming to a close, you've got this rebellion within the convention hall, and the critics in the party are saying this is not democratic. Meanwhile, in the streets, you've got the students and the socialists and other protesters saying that the party is not democratic, that America is not democratic, and it is a real crisis. One of the last acts of the Convention 68 was a referendum to start an investigation to look into how the party nominates its candidates. One of the results is the adoption around the country of direct primary elections to select the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. I accept your nomination with a full and grateful heart. 1972, this process we're talking about is why there is no political party to step in and say, Mr. Joe Biden, thank you for your career, but you're not going to be the candidate. If you were in Germany, France, or England, you would have had the party leadership ushering them off the stage. There would have been some kind of intervention. I vision for America's future. A merit of a second term. But nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition. I'd like to thank our great Vice President Camel Harris. She's experienced. She's tough. She's capable. She's been an incredible partner to me and a leader for our country. In America, there is no power. There is no party there who is gonna, you know, move the candidate out. The candidate controls their own destiny. I knew you were still there. You're not going anywhere at Joe. I'm watching your kid. I'm watching your kid. I love her. I love you, Joe. The purpose for the primaries, you know, back to 2068 was more democracy, get people involved. This needs to be about participation. But what we found over the decades is the proportion of people turning out to vote in the primary was very small, 15, 20, sometimes very competitive election, possibly 30%, and the people who were turning out were not representative. They tend to be more liberal, and especially on the conservative side. Very conservative libertarian. And it helps to explain why Donald Trump, you know, has locked up the nomination, even though there are plenty of Republicans who have doubts about the m. The people who show up at the primary are making the decision about the nomination. Now we're looking at a situation with Comal Harris being endorsed by Joe Biden and other leaders. And we're going to have kind of off road sort of political maneuvering. There's going to be a lot of coming discussion about whether this is Democratic, whether there ought to be an open convention to decide, whether having the delegates vote virtually without any kind of public debate. Is really a violation of democratic procedure. And my point here is, go back to the beginning. The way this was set up in 1972 and how it's evolved into really a process of relatively small numbers, more extreme elements of our political process participating has guaranteed this was not going to be democratic. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7005213/kamala-harris-schedule-georgia-texas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7005213/kamala-harris-schedule-georgia-texas/"},"headline":"How the Harris Campaign Intends to Keep Up the Momentum in Its Second Week","datePublished":"2024-07-30T09:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-19T07:45:13.122Z","description":"An Atlanta rally and a hiring spree","url":"https://time.com/7005213/kamala-harris-schedule-georgia-texas/","keywords":["Kamala Harris"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b6e5ccde1e2784e/698a596309208f4f8e41d70b/GettyImages-2162789247.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian Bennett","jobTitle":"Bennett is a former senior White House correspondent at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b6e5ccde1e2784e/698a596309208f4f8e41d70b/GettyImages-2162789247.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Vice President Kamala Harris Delivers A Keynote At The American Federation of Teachers' 88th National Convention In Houston","caption":"Vice President Kamala Harris Delivers A Keynote At The American Federation of Teachers' 88th National Convention In Houston","creditText":"Montinique Monroe—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/kamala-harris/","name":"Kamala Harris"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7005213/kamala-harris-schedule-georgia-texas/","name":"How the Harris Campaign Intends to Keep Up the Momentum in Its Second Week"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How the Democratic Party Gave Away Its Ability to Simply Pick a New Nominee","description":"On July 20, 2024, President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was ending his campaign for reelection and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ZtAUkiyp/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-07-29T15:20:54.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZtAUkiyp.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/7005213/kamala-harris-schedule-georgia-texas/","duration":"PT7M22S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/7005213/kamala-harris-schedule-georgia-texas/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```