LOUISVILLE, Ky- In the 24 hours since announcing her candidacy Democrat Amy McGrath has pulled in a staggering $2.5 million.

The retired fighter pilot’s campaign says these donations came in from 69,188 individual donors with the average donation being around $38. More than $1 million of the donations came in less than six hours after her announcement.

The campaign says this broke records for the most money raised in the first day of a U.S. senate race.

In the hours following her announcement and appearance on MSNBC, the hash tag Ditch Mitch was trending on Twitter, with Democrats in Kentucky and nationwide using the hashtag urging people to donate.

If this is what our map of donations for @AmyMcGrathKY in the past hour looks like right now, we can only imagine what Amy's does!!!



We can #DitchMitch in 2020, and we can do it with grassroots energy and grassroots donations.



Keep those donations to Amy McGrath coming! pic.twitter.com/70EpIkgrCs — Ditch Mitch (@ditchmitchfund) July 9, 2019

McGrath will need to keep these fundraising numbers up to compete with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his war chest. According campaign finance reports the Republican has already raised $7.9 million in his bid for a sixth term.

While McGrath was trending on Twitter following her announcement, the McConnell team didn’t miss a beat to promote donating to McConnell’s campaign while keeping on message that McGrath is a liberal.