DNC Official Blasts Kamala For Squandering Billions As Party Civil War Widens: ‘I Was Stunned’

Democratic National Committee National Finance Committee member Lindy Li was highly critical of Vice President Kamala Harris during an interview with News Nation on Tuesday, stating that Harris has refused to take “responsibility” for squandering more than $1 billion in campaign donations.

Despite the unprecedentedly short campaign window for the Harris Campaign, which began in mid-July after President Biden opted to suspend his campaign, the Harris Campaign spent more than $1.5 billion in the four-month period. Li, who was on a campaign call with Harris donors and campaign staffers, described the vice president’s demeanor as “self congratulatory” despite becoming the first Democratic Party presidential candidate to lose the popular vote since 2004.

“She actually held two calls, one for her top donors and one for grassroots. I was speaking and texting with fellow attendees in the call, and we were amazed by how self-congratulatory the tone was …. The call was about 20, 30 minutes,” Li said. “I don’t recall anyone taking responsibility for the fact that we spent about $2 billion across the super PAC and the campaign and came up so significantly short. We lost seven swing states.”

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When asked what exactly was said on the call, Li revealed that Harris was praised as a “visionary leader.”

“I believe at one moment during the call she was talking about her Thanksgiving recipe. I don’t say this with any malice or anything. I’m just merely conveying what happened,” the DNC official added. “I think I was stunned to hear that, given just the extent and brutality of the loss, and the fact that DNC staffers, two-thirds, at least two-thirds, have been fired summarily, and a lot of them are at a loss as to what to do.”

Li concluded that the party lacks direction given her post-election observations and the campaign call. “I’m just frankly stunned that there was no sort of postmortem or an analysis of how we can do better, what sort of lessons were learned. It was really just patting each other on the back, congratulating each other on I’m not sure what, and saying we’ll see you for Christmas.”

The DNC has indeed laid off a number of staffers as the party struggles to regroup from the loss. Despite out-raising the Trump Campaign by a nearly three-to-one margin, the Harris Campaign ended the cycle with more than $20 million in debt. Several staffers who were told they would be paid through the end of the year have been laid off, while the DNC has opened a GoFundMe campaign in an effort to pay off some of the debt.

Democrats, including members of the Harris Campaign, have been playing the blame game in the days and weeks following the election.

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.

Harris Campaign co-chair Jen O’Malley Dillon defended the campaign’s decision to build a $100,000 set for Kamala’s appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast during an interview with “Pod Save America” earlier this week.

“So much of the electorate, pre-Vice President Harris and post, had opted out of political engagement, had opted out of wanting to talk through or hear the kind of partisan environment so we had to work extremely hard to find them,” she said. And doing so made us make really key choices. ‘Call Her Daddy’ was really an important choice to make.”

O’Malley Dillon went on to state that Hurricane Helene caused the campaign to shift gears after initial plans to visit North Carolina had to be scrapped. “We put her on the Weather Channel, in part because that’s where people were watching,” she added.

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