Within hours, Black women digitally rallied across the nation to propel Vice President Kamala Harris’ unexpected run for president. As her campaign moves forward, the work and votes of Black women – at the DNC and at the polls – have the potential to get her there.

After an unprecedented turn of events on the campaign trail, and multiple Democratic leaders and donors calling for President Biden to leave the presidential race, Biden officially announced the end to his campaign on Sunday, endorsing Vice President Harris as the Democratic nominee. Immediately after donations poured into ActBlue, the digital donation portal used by Democrats, with the website processing over $80 million in under 24 hours.

The New York Times reported Monday that at its peak, ActBlue reached $11.5 million in a single hour on Sunday, with the Harris campaign specifically garnering $49.6 million in funding by 5 a.m. EST this morning.

Within just a few hours on Sunday, Win With Black Women, an organization of women Black political, activist and spiritual leaders, organized a nationwide Zoom call, with over 44,000 Black women in attendance, reported Essence. According to Win With Black Women, the organization raised $1.5 million in three hours.

“When Black women go to work…WE go to work.  $1.5 million in 3 hours via @WinWithBlackWomen because we BELIEVE in @VP @KamalaHarris to lead this country, as the next President,” Dr. Regina Davis Moss, president and CEO of In Our Own Voice tweeted this morning.

Harris made history as the first woman, Black person or South Asian to serve as vice president and should she be elected in November, would become the first Black woman or South Asian to ever serve as president. However, Harris is not the official nominee yet. She must receive the majority of the 4,700 delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month in order to represent the party and appear against Trump on the ballot in November.

According to aggregate of national polling conducted by Decision Desk HQ and the Hill, Trump has a 2.7% lead on Harris, with 45.3% support to Trump’s 48%.

Black women heavily back the Democratic Party, but don’t feel like the party has their back. Polling by KFF published earlier this month found that 67% of Black women voters identify as Democrat, and 56% feel like the party does better than the Republican Party than “looking out for people like them.” According to the poll, 1 in 3 Black women say that neither party looks out for them.

Black delegates pivot ahead of the DNC

Texas delegate Passion Jackson has been involved in the Democratic Party since Al Gore’s 2000 campaign.

But despite living through Florida’s hanging chad debacle, the swiftboating of John Kerry and Hillary’s emails, she hasn’t seen anything like the events of this weekend.

“This is just new — and I’m excited about it,” Jackson tells Reckon.

In about a month, Jackson, a East Texas native and current Dallas resident, will serve as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. But now with President Joe Biden’s tectonic announcement over the weekend that he would end his bid for a second term to the presidency, delegates like Jackson are free to support any candidate they wish.

For her and tens of thousands of other Black women — from elected officials to Black community leaders to anonymous social-media users — that candidate is Vice President Kamala Harris.

“This is actually their worst-case scenario,” Jackson says of the Republican Party and their slate of former President Donald Trump and his running mate U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio. “Because what can they say? She was a prosecutor, and she was tough on crime. She’s also been an attorney general. It’s really going to be tough for them to come back against her.”

Before Sunday, Jackson was a staunch supporter of Biden’s. She cites his shepherding the passage of the $461 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a push to manufacture more computer chips in the U.S., expanding loans to Black-owned small businesses and clearing millions of dollars worth of student-loan debt as keystone accomplishments for the president.

Rather than a free-for-all at the Democratic convention in August, for which some party members have expressed support, Jackson wants the party unified around a nominee in the coming weeks as well as a Harris running mate who can also bring unity to the party.

In the meantime, Black women are steeling themselves for the inevitable onslaught of racist and misogynistic attacks to be thrown Harris’ way.

“We’re going to get to see … how ugly they can be towards Black women. They’re going to use a lot of coded language as they always do,” Jackson said.

“But what they can’t say is … anything about her age. Because as of right now, Trump is the oldest person ever nominated to run for president. So there you have it — their words get to come back and bite them.”