Kamala Harris has raised 200 million dollars for her presidential campaign in less than a week. Her campaign team announced this on Sunday. The Vice President hopes that this fundraising success will improve her chances against Donald Trump.

Michael Tyler, communications director of the Harris campaign, described the amount as "record-breaking".

66 percent of them come from first-time donors, which proves the enormous grassroots support for the Vice President," he said.

Harris urgently needs to ramp up her fundraising activities to offset the decline in donations for President Joe Biden after his weak debate performance against Trump at the end of June.

Harris collected more in one week than Biden and Trump together in the month of June. Biden's campaign raised less than 63.8 million dollars last month, about 42 million dollars less than Trump, according to Open Secrets.

The Trump campaign and affiliated political action committees had raised a total of about $757 million by the end of last month, including $431.2 million between April and June.

Before Biden dropped out of the race, groups associated with him had raised $746 million, including $332.4 million in the second quarter.

Since Biden left the race and appointed the vice president as his successor, the race has changed radically.

Harris has quickly united the Democratic Party behind her and gained ground in the polls against Trump.

She is currently vetting candidates for the position of Vice President and is expected to announce her choice within the next two weeks.

At a fundraising event in Massachusetts on Saturday, however, Harris admitted that Trump remains the favorite in the November election.

We are the underdogs in this race, but this is a campaign-driven campaign," Harris told the donors.

During a rally in Minnesota on Saturday evening, two weeks after an assassination attempt, Trump attacked Harris and called her "mean," while attempting to focus his campaign on her instead of Biden.

If a crazy liberal like Kamala Harris wins, the American dream is dead," said Trump.

After the attack, Trump briefly called for 'unity' in American politics. But on Saturday, he suggested that the time for niceties was over.

Everyone says: 'I think he has changed. I think he has changed since two weeks ago. Something has influenced him,'" Trump told the crowd. "No, I have not changed. Maybe I have become worse. Because I get angry about the incompetence I experience every day.

On Friday, Trump drew criticism for telling a group of Christian conservatives that they wouldn't need to "vote" in four years if they helped him get elected this year.

Harris and her campaign also intensify their attacks on Trump. She emphasizes that he poses a threat to the fundamental freedoms of Americans, from abortion and voting rights to economic security. She described Trump and his running mate JD Vance as bizarre and extreme.

You may have noticed that Donald Trump resorts to wild lies about my record. And some of what he and his candidate say is just plain odd. That's the category you put that in," she said on Saturday.

As Biden left the race, Trump led in national polls by an average of 3.2 percentage points according to Fivethirtyeight.com. However, since then, Harris has shown signs of closing this gap.

An ABC/Ipsos poll on Sunday showed that more voters view the vice president positively than negatively – 43 percent versus 42 percent. In the same poll last week, her popularity was at 35 percent compared to 46 percent who viewed her negatively.

A Wall Street Journal survey showed that Trump leads Harris by 2 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup among registered voters, but falls behind Harris by 1 percentage point when third-party candidates are included. Some swing state polls have also shown a closer race, including Fox News polls that describe the race between Trump and Harris in Pennsylvania and Michigan as tied.

Chris Sununu, the Republican Governor of New Hampshire, a former Trump critic who now supports him, admitted that Harris' entry had created a "completely new race" and that the Democrats would carry "momentum" into their convention next month.

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"But he also said that the 'honeymoon' period would end in September and that Trump, as long as he avoids personal attacks and focuses on political differences such as the economy and immigration, has a better message.

Hopefully the numbers, the polls, will make Donald Trump realize what has worked and what hasn't," Sununu told ABC.

In the same broadcast, JB Pritzker, the Democratic Governor of Illinois, said that the wind is visibly shifting towards Harris. "The electorate is motivated. The Democrats are ready to go. They have seen hundreds of thousands of people sign up as volunteers," he said.