Kamala Harris raised $12 million in campaign's first quarter

In the first three months of her presidential campaign, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) raised $12 million, her team announced Monday.

The campaign said it received 218,000 contributions, with 98 percent of them under $100. More than $6 million was donated online, including $1.1 million in the last week, The New York Times reports. The average donation was roughly $55, and only 0.55 percent of individual donors gave $2,800, the maximum under the law.

"A nationwide network of hundreds of thousands of grassroots supporters has stepped up to lay the foundation for a winning campaign," Harris' campaign manager, Juan Rodriguez, said in a statement. Earlier in the day, another Democratic candidate, Pete Buttigieg, announced he raised more than $7 million in the first quarter. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had 158,550 donors who gave an average of $36.35.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.