Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ teams are blaming each other for wasting more than $1 billion in donor cash on a doomed presidential campaign.
Since Donald Trump’s historic victory, Democrats have been confused about how their considerable war chest could not be protected from the Republican whom they consider a “threat to democracy.”
President Joe Biden’s poor performance in his June debate with Trump, which led to his last-minute decision to drop out of the race, is to blame for Kamala’s loss, Harris advisers say.
But Biden’s staff says the vice president ran a terrible three-month campaign and wasted millions of dollars from his biggest donors.
‘How did you spend a billion dollars and not win? What the fuck?’ said a former Biden staffer infuriated by the Harris team’s excuses.
White House advisers and campaign teams for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are fighting over who is to blame for spending more than $1.2 billion on a losing presidential race.
In total, Harris’ campaign spent $1.2 billion on the race, while Trump’s campaign spent $750 million, according to a Financial Times. analysis found.
Although some indications show that the race was much more expensive than that.
Harris’ campaign, affiliated PACs and the Democratic National Committee amassed more than $2.3 billion in political contributions.
Donald Trump’s team, affiliated PACs and the Republican National Committee raised $1.8 billion.
After raising nearly $4.2 billion, they spent a combined $3.5 billion on the presidential race, making it the most expensive race ever held according to the analysis.
Despite spending less, Trump ended up defeating Harris in the electoral and popular vote, something the Republican Party has not done in decades.
As a result, a furious storm of criticism has erupted within the Democratic ranks.
White House and campaign workers ruthlessly continue their blame game over whether the president or vice president really dropped the ball.
Both Democratic campaigns spent hundreds of millions on ads hammering home this message, but it didn’t work.
Not only did his campaign end in disaster, but to add insult to injury, the operation is allegedly in debt, Politico reports, to the tune of $20 million.
Speaking on a staff call Thursday night, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Harris’ campaign manager, nearly broke down in tears, sources on the call revealed. axios.
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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election on the campus of Howard University in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024.
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“I don’t like emotions, I don’t do that,” he said. Then he started to choke.
“You are great people who have done something great and you were very close.”
A Harris campaign staffer expressed dismay after the emotional call with Harris’ campaign brass.
‘He detached himself from the reality of what happened,’ they said about the call.
“We’re told the fate of democracy is at stake and then the message was, ‘We’ll get them next time.'”
Another Harris campaign staffer said he felt misled by those running the operation.
“People are depressed and frustrated by the overconfident leadership of the campaign,” he said.
‘We did what we could. “I think the odds against us were insurmountable,” said a member of Kamala’s campaign staff.
Although the vice president’s campaign only began after Biden resigned on July 21, she was promised $200 million within a week, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump takes the stage to address supporters at his rally at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, US, on November 6, 2024.
Liberal donors flocked to her, believing she could take up the mantle Biden left behind and run a campaign focused primarily on stopping Trump’s comeback.
Painting Trump as an undemocratic, fascist demagogue unfit to hold the reins of the most powerful office on Earth was the central feature of the Biden and Harris campaigns.
In fact, Harris’ campaign delivered more than $650 million in ads from July 22 through Election Day.
Meanwhile, Trump spent about $380 million on ads during that time, according to AdImpact.
The Republican effectively made gains across all demographic groups, voting data shows.
Trump made gains among younger, urban, black male, Latino voters, while Harris won many college-educated voters.