Heavyweight Left-Wing Donors Back Kamala Harris

A deep-pocketed group of progressive donors has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Democracy Alliance, a club of major left-of-center donors, voted Sunday to endorse Harris in the upcoming election, according to the NYT. Members of the organization, who join a growing coalition of wealthy donors throwing their support behind Harris, have steered more than $2 billion to liberal campaigns and organizations over the past twenty years.

“We are 100 percent all in and ready to deliver,” Democracy Alliance president Pamela Shifman said in a statement, according to the NYT. “We’re going to win.”

Democracy Alliance was not founded to disburse money itself, but rather to serve as a forum for wealthy liberal donors to coordinate their spending, according to The Nation. Early in the group’s history, prospective members were required to pay a $25,000 entry fee to join the club, an additional $30,000 in annual dues and to donate a minimum of $200,000 a year to causes endorsed by Democracy Alliance.

The organization’s website touts that it brings high-net worth individuals together with labor unions, activists, nonprofits and elected officials to “coordinate, strategize and win.” Democracy Alliance claims to have steered funds toward winning “critical governorships across the midwest” during the 2022 midterm elections.

“Together, we’re working not only to save our democracy, but to build it into the just, multiracial, feminist democracy we deserve,” the group’s website reads.