The Harris campaign announced Friday morning that it had raised $310 million in July, the biggest amount so far in the 2024 campaign cycle and more than double what Republican nominee Donald Trump raised, the bulk of it built on the rollout of Vice President Harris as the likely nominee of the Democratic Party.

More than $200 million of the total haul came in the week after President Biden said on July 21 that he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsed the vice president. Many Democrats had told pollsters that they were concerned about Biden’s age, and Harris’s ascent appeared to have delivered a jolt of fundraising energy.

The Harris campaign says it has $377 million in cash on hand.

Trump’s campaign announced Thursday that it had raised $138.7 million during the month of July. Still, Trump’s operation says it has $327 million in cash on hand, based on strong fundraising in previous months.

The figures provided by the campaigns cannot be confirmed until later this month, when the official financial disclosure forms are filed.

The Harris campaign says it has raised $1 billion so far this cycle, the fastest a presidential campaign has hit that threshold. That includes the phase when Biden was the candidate as well as the recent stretch when he ceded that role to her.

Two-thirds of the $310 million that Harris raised in July came from first-time donors, according to the campaign, in an indication of the momentum that Harris built after Biden dropped out. The campaign says 3 million donors made over 4.2 million contributions, with 2 million donors making their first donation of this presidential cycle.

Some 94 percent of the donations were under $200, with teachers and nurses among the top occupations among the contributors.

In another sign that Harris is tapping into support where Biden struggled to do so, particularly among young people, her campaign reported having 10 times the number of donors in July as in the previous month from Gen Z, or people born between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s.

Similarly, the campaign said it had eight times the number of millennial donors, those born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, as the month before. Some 60 percent of donors in July were women.

There were hip gyrations from the stage. The playlist included “Girls in the Hood,” “Mamushi,” “Savage,” and “Body.” The candidate quoted Quavo.

A Joe Biden rally this was not.

If there was ever any indication of the head-snapping transition that Democrats have gone through, it was the one that occurred on Tuesday night in Atlanta when 10,000 people danced and cheered to Megan Thee Stallion before Vice President Harris took the stage for a campaign rally to the strains of Beyoncé’s “Freedom.” Biden forecast this kind of a change four years ago when he talked about a bridge to a new generation, but that transformation didn’t take place until the past two weeks when he officially relinquished his grip on the party.

In Atlanta, the baton was fully passed to Kamala Harris. This was now her party. Her campaign. Her playlist.

In fact, Joe Biden never came up.

From the music to the outfits — and, most tellingly, the crowd size — it was clearer than ever that the shift to a new Democratic generation was complete.

By and large, it is the same campaign aides who were putting on Biden events that are now in charge of Harris ones. But the types of crowds interested in attending Harris events — and the musicians willing to perform at them — are very different. The new playlist, even if controlled by the same staffers who curated Biden’s soundtrack (a mix including Whitney Houston’s “Higher Love,” Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” and Elton John’s “Philadelphia Freedom”), has a certain Harris flair, and is put together based on her personal input.

Campaign aides say they are still thinking about how Harris events will be different, and they are determined to not only do large-scale rallies but want to put her in smaller settings as well. The coming days will provide more of a test case as Harris picks a running mate and launches a seven-state tour that will probably include a range of venues.

Harris is attempting to harness the surge in organic enthusiasm to display a show of force around her campaign launch. Aides want to do so in ways that are not only helpful to the vice president’s case but also work to get under Trump’s skin (The Trump campaign has scheduled a rally on Saturday in the same Atlanta arena that Harris filled on Tuesday).

The crowds to date in the Harris for president campaign are simply more energized. They’re bigger and louder. And it is a different tapestry than the Democratic Party has presented to a general electorate since at least 2016.

Biden is the candidate who works rope lines and owns small rooms, but has never been known as the one who can fill large arenas. Filling a middle school gymnasium, as he did last month, was reason for boasting, and success for him is the amount of time he spends on a rope line after the event rather than the number of total supporters who attend it. And four years ago, during the height of a global pandemic, the closest the president came to having large rallies was events where cars gathered, at a social distance, and honked their horns.

Harris, at least in the opening weeks of her candidacy, is drawing the kind of energy and excitement that Barack Obama drew in 2008 or that Donald Trump brought in 2016.

While Democrats have long had strong ties to the entertainment industry — attracting actors as donors and musicians as opening acts — the octogenarian who spent half a century as a politician and rarely dips into pop culture was not a source for inspiration. Biden’s prized possession is a car built in 1967 (a Corvette Stingray) and his favorite movie was made in 1981 (“Chariots of Fire”)

Biden often quotes Abraham Lincoln or Irish poets in his speeches. On Tuesday night, Harris was quoting hip-hop artists in hers.

“Trump … Does not walk the walk,” she said. “Or as my friend Quavo would say: He does not walk it like he talks it.”

The crowd ate it up.

Biden often says the Black community was among those that “brung me to the dance.” But he most definitely did not have the playlist, or energy — or the dance — that came from Atlanta.

The rally marked a debut of sorts for Megan on C-SPAN, which streamed the event live. She took the stage amid flashing strobe lights, and was dressed in a blue pantsuit, a white shirt with exposed midriff, and a blue tie. She riffed on one of Harris’s strongest campaign planks: abortion rights.

“Our future president — let’s get this done, Atlanta,” she told the cheering crowd. “We’re about to make history with the first female president. The first Black female president. Let’s get this done, honey.”

As she sang her song “Body” she told the crowd: “Now, I know my ladies in the crowd love their bodies — and if you want to keep loving your body, you know who to vote for.”

Harris’s remarks were stylistically different from Biden’s, with her own cadence and without verbal digressions and the storytelling that Biden often relishes. But at the core, many of her policy aims did not significantly diverge from the ones that Biden promotes.

“Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency,” she said. “When our middle class is strong, America is strong.”

She talked about the need to tame inflation, and she spoke in sharp tones about immigration.

“He tanked — tanked — the bipartisan deal because he thought it would help him win an election,” Harris said. “Which goes to show, Donald Trump does not care about border security. He only cares about himself. I will bring back the border security bill, and I will sign it into law and show Donald Trump what real leadership looks like.”

She mocked Trump’s policy positions — called some of the things from him and his running mate “just plain weird” — and poked fun at her GOP rival for not fully committing to a debate. While Biden also often mentions Trump, she seemed to take more glee in poking at her new rival.

“Donald, I do hope you’ll reconsider, to meet me on the debate stage,” she said, looking into the cameras. “Because as the saying goes, ‘If you got something to say, say it to my face.’”

Harris also echoed what has been a signature line in her brief time as a candidate, as she recalled her time as a prosecutor taking on “predators who abused women; fraudsters who ripped off consumers; cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.”

“So hear me when I say,” she added, pausing for effect. “I know Donald Trump’s type.”

In Atlanta and elsewhere, there are calls-and-response. There is a rollicking feeling that often doesn’t exist amid polite applause at Biden’s events. When Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Tuesday night chided Trump for being “too scared to debate Vice President Harris,” the crowd began chanting, “Too scared! Too scared!”

When Harris referenced Trump’s legal problems and guilty verdicts, the crowd yelled, “Lock him up! Lock him up!”

Biden has acknowledged his milquetoast taste.

“Isn’t it really dull when you have a president known for two things: Ray-Ban sunglasses and chocolate chip ice cream?” he said last month during a gathering in Harrisburg, Pa., as he sought to inject life into his reelection campaign.

Two weeks later, he was out of the race. And now he’s hoping to propel to victory a president known for things far less dull.

JD Vance, Donald Trump’s newly minted running mate, has posted his life on the internet for nearly two decades.

In 2005, while serving as a combat correspondent in Iraq, he started a blog. In 2012, he created his first public Spotify playlist, “Making Dinner,” which featured Backstreet Boys, Justin Bieber and Florence + The Machine. His Venmo account was public too, according to a report by Wired (his “friends” on the payment app included Tucker Carlson). He tweeted (and deleted). He Yelped. He started a second blog.

As the first major-party vice-presidential nominee from the millennial generation, Vance, who turns 40 on Friday, is also the first who grew up with the option of posting his every thought and feeling — his favorite music, his reviews of random businesses (“one of the best restaurants in Cincinnati or anywhere”), even his reflections on Game of Thrones (“I’m no Sun Tzu but color me skeptical of going after the supplies instead of the army”) — on the internet for all to see.

And like other millennials, Vance was a sort of internet pioneer, embracing new platforms (Financial transactions can be shared with friends? Cool!) without much apparent trepidation.

Younger Americans — members of Gen Z and Gen Alpha — were born into a world shaped by social media. But Vance and his contemporaries were born before social media existed, joined it as teens or young adults, and became the first generation to discover how what they posted could affect their lives and careers decades later.

Now Vance is becoming the first millennial to discover what it’s like to run for the vice presidency after a life lived online. Like many nominees before him, Vance made controversial comments on television and in public before joining the ticket that are now being reported in the press. But his pre-politics online presence is novel.

“Millennials have been moving through the professional world with this long digital trail. People have managed to make careers for themselves despite all the weird stuff they did when they were younger,” said Whitney Phillips, assistant professor of digital platforms and ethics at the University of Oregon. “But having this be a vice-presidential nominee is a very different kind of job than your average job. It raises the stakes, it raises the visibility.”

Many internet users — including some of the more “tech savvy and smart” millennials — began making more of their online content private around 2016, according to marketing generalist consultant Carissa Estreller.

Vance didn’t seem to catch that wave, although he did delete some tweets — his reactions to “Game of Thrones,” for example. His campaign declined to comment for this story but did not dispute the accounts were his.

The Republican vice-presidential nominee has faced criticism in recent weeks for his past comments on childless Americans and his transformation from a Trump critic to the former president’s running mate. Vance has moved to the right over the course of his political career and expressed shifting positions on gender, sexuality and race. These thoughts, too, were caught online, including in posts (“I’ll stop calling people ‘groomers’ when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the sexualization of my children”) and text messages that have been released by onetime friends.

“Part of the reason that people are scouring his online data trail is because of some of the more political positions he’s taken. It basically creates a target sign of what people would be looking for,” Phillips said. “Totally, there’s stuff from his past that’s getting kicked up to the surface, but the reason there’s interest is because of what he’s saying as an adult, and that sort of makes everything else retrospectively relevant to the conversation.”

Perhaps the most notable examples of Vance’s unrestrained millennial embrace of internet un-privacy — still public as of this writing — are canine in nature: In 2012, his dog, Casper, “created” a Facebook account.

Vance and his wife, Usha, adopted the puppy during their time at Yale Law School, said Dan Driscoll, a friend who overlapped with the couple for several years at Yale and now serves as a senior adviser to Vance’s campaign.

“I’m not sure who to vote for,” “Casper” posted in 2012. “I dislike Mitt Romney’s policies on dogs riding in cars, but I recently discovered that Obamacare doesn’t cover preexisting conditions for dogs. Is Ralph Nader running?”

Driscoll recalled the pair as extraordinarily devoted to the dog, heading home in the middle of every day to walk him and stepping in without complaint to clean up the pup’s frequent messes. Vance even carried the dog around on his chest in a carrier. Casper had some sort of esophageal problem, Driscoll said, leading the dog to vomit almost constantly.

“Casper … would just throw everything up on the floor, it made their house stink and it was constant,” Driscoll said. “I just remember [JD] constantly on his hands and knees cleaning that up.”

According to Vance’s Yelp profile, the couple’s canine struggles continued into 2022, nearly a decade after the couple graduated from Yale.

Vance rated a veterinary clinic in Cincinnati one star for its handling of a “sudden, serious” issue, calling it “one of the worst customer service experiences in the city.” (Vance didn’t love his experience with a babysitting service in the city, either.)

Casper is also, apparently, well read. A Goodreads account connected to Vance is named for the German shepherd. Among Casper’s top-rated books are Clarence Thomas’s memoir “My Grandfather’s Son,” “The Screwtape Letters,” “God and Man at Yale” and, of course, Vance’s own “Hillbilly Elegy.”

The abundance of online material available from Vance’s past can give voters “the illusion” of increased transparency and a sense that they know him better than other candidates, said Alex Turvy, who studies internet culture.

But in reality, “we might actually know less, because we’re distracted by the things we’re seeing there,” Turvy added. “With so much information available, it’s really easy to folks to cherry pick stuff. The ability to selectively pay attention to stuff could decrease folks’ willingness to consider a comprehensive view of him.”

Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Natanson, Aaron Schaffer and Chris Dehghanpoor contributed to this report.

PARIS — Fresh off her second gold medal win at the Paris Olympics, U.S. gymnast Simone Biles seemed to take a dig at Donald Trump with a social media post declaring: “I love my black job.”

The former president and Republican candidate has prompted criticism — and internet memes — for asserting without evidence during the June 27 debate that immigrants coming into the United States illegally are “taking Black jobs.”

Asked this week to explain what counts as a Black job, Trump said: “A Black job is anybody that has a job.”

In the same interview, at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, Trump accused Vice President Harris of once hiding the Black heritage she has routinely highlighted in her career, escalating his attacks on the woman he is expected to face in November’s election.

Biles’s apparent dig Friday came in response to a post by Ricky Davila, a singer and songwriter, who had written: “Simone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job.”

Biles, the most decorated American gymnast in history, won her ninth Olympic medal in the women’s gymnastics all-around final Thursday.

Biles withdrew from competitions in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 for mental health reasons. While her withdrawal was widely applauded as courageous at the time, the public support prompted criticism from JD Vance (R-Ohio), now Trump’s running mate.

“I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society,” Vance said in comments that resurfaced this week.

Amy Wang contributed to this report.

Vice President Harris has narrowed her search for a running mate to six finalists and is planning to conduct interviews with them this weekend, according to two people familiar with the process who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential deliberations.

Those finalists are Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Tim Walz of Minnesota, as well as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Mark Kelly (Ariz.), the people said. Representatives for Beshear, Buttigieg and Shapiro confirmed that those officials had canceled previously scheduled plans for this weekend.

The vetting of Harris’s potential running mates — an arduous process that typically takes several months — has been condensed to two weeks, after President Biden made the extraordinary announcement July 21 that he would not seek reelection and that he would instead endorse Harris. Since then, Harris’s campaign has embarked on an unprecedented sprint, raising $310 million in July and quickly consolidating support from across the Democratic Party.

Harris is also closing in on the official nomination: Delegates to the Democratic National Convention began online voting for their party’s nominee on Thursday, a process that is scheduled to wrap up by Monday evening. Harris’s campaign has already announced that she and her vice-presidential pick will go on a tour of battleground states starting Tuesday.

Those close to Harris’s campaign had said last week that she was considering roughly a dozen potential running mates. One reported candidate, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, withdrew from consideration this week, saying it “just wasn’t the right time for North Carolina and for me to potentially be on a national ticket.”

“As I’ve said from the beginning, she has an outstanding list of people from which to choose, and we’ll all work to make sure she wins,” Cooper said in a statement Monday.

The running-mate decision is an early and major test for Harris’s young presidential campaign. Biden picked her as his running mate in 2020 because he wanted someone who shared his values and could immediately be effective on the job — and Harris is said to be approaching the search similarly. Her reported finalists also are all White men, reflecting assumptions that voters would prefer gender and racial balance with the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent leading the ticket.

As he was leaving the White House on Friday, Biden confirmed that he had spoken to Harris about her running mate choice but did not go into much detail. Asked what qualities Harris should prioritize as she makes her decision, Biden told reporters: “I’ll let her work that out.”