Harris Donation Record, Trump Winks at Cryptocurrencies

US Vice President Kamala Harris raised $200 million in donations in the week she entered the 2024 presidential race — a sum her campaign communications director described as a record. Harris’ campaign team announced that 66 percent of that figure came from first-time donors. The strong financial support is the latest indication of how Democrats are uniting behind Harris after US President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy. Harris has secured the support of enough delegates to secure the nomination and continues her search for a vice presidential running mate. The US Vice President also received the support of former President Barack Obama on Friday. Former US President Donald Trump said that if he wins the election and returns to the White House, he will fire Gary Gensler, the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and appoint “crypto-friendly” names to the regulatory body. “This afternoon I will be announcing my plan to make the United States the crypto capital of the planet and the Bitcoin superpower of the world, and we will do it,” Trump said at a Bitcoin conference in Nashville on Saturday. “We will have regulations, but from now on the rules will be written by people who love your industry, not people who hate your industry,” Trump told industry representatives.