In just a moment, we are going to ask you to make your first contribution to Kamala Harris's campaign for president. Please give us a chance to explain why this request -- especially right now -- is so important. 

Here's the truth: 

In just days, we close the books on the final FEC fundraising deadline of the election.

For the last time before this race is called, we will be required to report how much money we've raised and how many donations we've received.

Everyone will be watching -- the press, our opponent, and outside spending organizations will be deciding whether to spend more to defeat us or to use their resources somewhere else.

But even more importantly, it will be a moment when we take stock of our numbers as a whole and make some final spending decisions before Election Day.

We know there are places where we can find more persuadable voters and Democrats who are infrequent voters and turn them out for us -- only if we have the resources. Today, we don't have that money.

And because there is no greater source of donations to our campaign than emails like this one, we're asking:

Kamala Harris needs today to be the day you make your first contribution to our campaign. Our average online donation is around $60. Some give more. Many give less. We just need a huge number of donations before this deadline ends.

We know you probably weren't thinking about donating today before you got this email, but we hope we've convinced you why it's so important.

Thank you,

Kamala Harris for President