WATCH: DNC Official Frames Harris Campaign As A ‘Billion-Dollar Disaster’
Lindy Li, a far-left political strategist who sits on the Democratic National Committee finance committee, referred to the Harris-Walz Campaign as a “one-billion-dollar disaster” during an interview with Fox News.
“I mean, you know, I am not on anyone’s payroll. I’m not beholden to anyone. That’s why I’m here telling the truth I’m not here to gaslight anybody. This is just the truth. The truth is this is just an epic disaster,” Li told Will Cain during an appearance on Fox And Friends. “This is a one-billion dollar disaster,” she added, noting that the campaign is currently $20 million in debt despite outraging the Trump-Vance Campaign by a three-to-one margin.
“It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have friends that I have to be accountable to and to explain what happened, because I told them it was a margin of error race. I was promised, General Natalie Dillon promised all of us that Harris would win. She even put videos out saying that Harris would win. I believed her, my donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks,” Li continued.
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“I just, I feel like a lot of us were misled. And even on the night of election night, Will, I looked somebody in the eye and I said, ‘are we going to do this? Are we going to pull it off?’ She told me yes. And I asked somebody else, like, ‘how are you feeling?’ He’s like, ‘we’re going to win Iowa.’ And I was like, what? Did they believe this going in? Was was there a real sense of false confidence on the side of Kamala Harris? Or did they know they were in store for a disaster?”
The campaign’s strategy of hiring high-profile music artists to perform concerts on elaborate sets ahead of the vice president’s rallies is being blamed as a major contributor to the debt, as vendors and staff are currently worried that they won’t be paid, according to a report from the New York Post.
Two sources told the outlet that Obama Campaign veterans Stephanie Cutter and David Plouffe pushed the concert strategy as a way to turn out low-propensity voters. “Harris added Cutter and Plouffe to her campaign shortly after replacing President Biden atop the party’s ticket in July, generating internal tensions with the existing Biden campaign team as the newcomers sought to replay the 44th president’s successful 2008 campaign,” The Post reported.
While the artists donated their time to the campaign, construction of elaborate sets sapped up manpower and campaign finances that could have been directed elsewhere. At least one planned performance from 90’s rock star Alanis Morissette was reportedly scrapped in order to save money.
President-elect Trump trolled the Harris-Walz Campaign by offering to take care of their financial problems. “I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
“Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others. Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do. We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was ‘Earned Media,’ and that doesn’t cost very much. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”