Vice President Harris remains to be pumping Democratic donors for money weeks after her blowout election loss — however its leaving supporters spent, critics mentioned.
“With Trump nominating MAGA loyalists left and right, there is nothing more important than making sure we can fight back and hold him accountable,” learn an e-mail from Kamala HQ which The Submit obtained almost three weeks after election day. “That’s why we need you to step up today. Yes, today.”
“Our records show that you haven’t pitched in to support our Harris Fight Fund program yet,” the missive scolded. “We know the election didn’t turn out as we’d hoped, but we’re not backing down.”
Harris raised $1.5 billion and blew all of it in simply 15 weeks of campaigning, ending the race with round $20 million in debt, insiders advised Politico — a declare the Harris marketing campaign has denied.
The nonstop panhandling sends the flawed message and is alienating voters, get together poohbahs mentioned.
“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,” Democratic strategist Jon Reinish advised The Submit.
“When I got yet another request form the Harris campaign for me to pony up. Quiet frankly I thought it was insulting.”
The problem is more likely to be a serious concern for the incoming chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee, who will grow to be the de facto chief of the get together after President Biden leaves workplace.
That election is scheduled for Feb 1. Among the many main contenders up to now are Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Get together, and Martin O’Malley, a former Maryland governor and previous Democratic presidential candidate.
A full Kamala marketing campaign post-mortem have to be on the high of the agenda for whoever is subsequent chosen to guide the get together, longtime Democratic insider James Carville advised The Submit.
“Many people are asking questions and there should probably be some kind of an audit,” Carville mentioned, including the trouble wanted to go nicely past Federal Election Fee spending disclosures and give attention to “more granular and much more detailed” spending selections.
Within the weeks since her loss, Harris’ profligate spending has raised eyebrows in Democratic circles.
Among the many extra notable expenditures have been $1 million to Oprah’s Harpo Productions; $900,000 to promote on the skin display of the Las Vegas Sphere; $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s Nationwide Motion Community, and thousands and thousands on personal jets and luxurious inns.
Greater than half a billion {dollars} went to only 4 well-connected Democratic media consulting outlets, in accordance with data and studies.
None of Harris’ funding emails point out any of the spending or the marketing campaign committee’s alleged monetary woes.
“People are going to want to know what vendors got what money and what did they do,” Carville mentioned. “When you have an airplane crash people don’t say, let’s look forward, not look back — no you look into what happened, was it a mechanical failure, or a weather thing or a hydraulic issue. The greatest teacher in the world is mistakes.”
