Democratic National Committee National Finance Committee member Lindy Li said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris did not take “responsibility” for her campaign spending billions of dollars during a donor call.
The Harris campaign and the Democratic Party reportedly spent almost $1.5 billion during her short presidential run, which she launched on July 21. Li, on “NewsNation Now,” said she was shocked by the lack of accountability for the spending and loss, noting the call seemed “self-congratulatory.”
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“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.”
“They praise Harris as a visionary leader. I believe at one moment during the call, she was talking about her Thanksgiving recipe. And I don’t say this with any malice or anything. I’m just merely conveying what happened. I think I was stunned to hear that, given just the extent and brutality of the loss and the fact that DNC staffers — at least two-thirds — have been fired summarily,” she added. “And a lot of them are at a loss as to what to do. I’m just, frankly, stunned that there was no sort of post-mortem 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.’”
Democrats have expressed concerns regarding the potential millions of dollars in debt the DNC accumulated trying to boost Harris’ chances of defeating President-elect Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the situation recently told Axios following the vice president’s loss. The DNC has fired hundreds of employees amid worries about mounting debt.
However, the Harris campaign’s chief financial officer, Patrick Stauffer, has disputed reports that the party is in significant debt after the 2024 election cycle.
“As of Election Day, there were no outstanding debts or bills overdue,” Stauffer told Bloomberg.
Democratic megadonor John Morgan asserted Monday that Harris’ campaign spending should end her political career.
“A lot of people got rich on the back of donors trying to stop Trump. And I think this disqualifies her forever. Forever,” Morgan said. “If you can’t run a campaign, you can’t run America. And that would be the argument just day one. So it was terrible.”
The DNC did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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