Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign for president continues to solicit contributions even after the election, according to a report by the New York Post.
“With [President-elect Donald] Trump nominating MAGA loyalists left and right, there is nothing more important than making sure we can fight back and hold him accountable. That’s why we need you to step up today. Yes, today,” an email sent by the Harris campaign three weeks after the election stated.
“Our records show that you haven’t pitched in to support our Harris Fight Fund program yet. We know the election didn’t turn out as we’d hoped, but we’re not backing down,” the email continued.
Harris’ campaign set an unprecedented record, spending $1.5 billion in just 15 weeks, but ultimately finished $20 million in debt, according to sources close to Politico.
This has left the Democratic Party in a negative light, with party operatives criticizing the fundraising requests coming after such a major defeat. “Getting fundraising requests after any candidate has lost, when they admit that they are still millions of dollars in debt, having blown through over a billion dollars … is especially galling,” said Democratic strategist Jon Reinish. “When I got yet another request from the Harris campaign for me to pony up, quite frankly, I thought it was insulting.”
The efficiency of campaign spending may become a focal point for the next leader of the Democratic National Committee, with an election for the DNC chair scheduled for February 1. The front-runners for the position include Ken Martin, the chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland and past presidential candidate.
James Carville, a long-time Democrat strategist, remarked that the next DNC chair must prioritize a thorough review of Kamala Harris’ campaign. “The fundraisers are burnt out; they’re really [angry] now. And the damage the 2024 campaign has done, the damage this decade has done to the Democratic brand is almost unfathomable. Almost unfathomable,” Carville said during a recent episode of his “Politicon” podcast.
“So I have people that are contacting me to run for DNC chair. I promise you, I’m not going to get in the middle of that. But anybody — and I don’t have a vote, or they don’t have an opinion, no one cares — but I would say the policy, number one, is we’re going to audit everything. We’re going to audit the campaign, we’re going to audit Future Forward, we’re going to audit the DNC, so people can know.”
Carville further pointed out the vast amounts of money raised and questioned where it all went. “The fundraisers are burnt out; they’re really [angry] now. And the damage the 2024 campaign has done, the damage this decade has done to the Democratic brand is almost unfathomable. Almost unfathomable,” Carville said, adding, “Between the Harris campaign raising ‘we think’ $1.5 billion and the Democrat super PAC Future Forward holding in its coffers ‘900 million,’ ‘that’s two and a half freaking billion dollars.'”
“Do you have any idea where that money went?” Carville asked. “Does anybody have any idea where that money went? I mean, I have some places I’d start looking. … I promise you this: The amount of money and the amount of lobbyists that were involved in this campaign is staggering. It’s staggering.”
{Matzav.com}