Giant Zoom calls powering record fundraising for Kamala Harris

It began with a group of black women on a Zoom call who hit a million-dollar fundraising target in about three hours.

A series of similar Zooms followed, including the latest: a group of about 123,000 “white dudes” gathered virtually to raise $3m (£2.3m) in one hour Monday evening.

The money is for Kamala Harris’s US presidential campaign – now barely a week old. Still, it is harnessing a grassroots energy that did not exist for President Joe Biden, using modern video conferencing to reach motivated voters and…