The spectacularly failed presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly still soliciting supporters for donations — for several reasons; principally because it remains millions of dollars in debt. This after the campaign raised in excess of $1 billion.
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As reported by The Daily Caller on Monday, Harris’s most recent fundraising email was sent to supporters on Sunday, based on emails the outlet obtained. Each email claims, using slightly different language, that the “Harris Fight Fund” is collecting donations to fund legal efforts and recount initiatives to help Democrats in close congressional races.
I’m going to go out on a very safe limb and bet that close congressional races are somewhere down the list from campaign debt and legal expenses.
One of Harris’a post-election emails reads:
First and foremost, we want to acknowledge the fear, confusion and sadness many of you are feeling at this moment. As you read this, there are U.S. Senate and House races that are either too close to call, or within the margin of recounts or certain legal challenges. Can you please rush a contribution to the Harris Fight Fund program today?
These people not only remain totally out of touch with everyday Americans; it’s also almost unbelievable that they have this much gall.
The dopey email might as well have said: “Yeah, we got our butts kicked big time, but just forget about that and help us pay off the debt of one the most disastrous presidential campaigns in US history.”
Here’s more:
After clicking the donation link contained in the emails, prospective donors are sent to the ActBlue page for the Harris Victory Fund.
Wait— Harris Victory Fund? Hilarious.
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More:
The first $41,300 in donations from an individual to the Harris Victory Fund are sent to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), according to the fine print of the donation page.
Only the next $3,100 in donations from a given individual are deposited into “Harris for President’s Recount Account.”
The next $510,000 in donations from an individual donor are earmarked to be disbursed equally among the Democratic Parties in all 50 states and D.C., with any excess funds going to the DNC.
Sources said Harris’s campaign fell $20 million in debt during the last week of her campaign.
A Kamala campaign staffer confirmed to Breitbart News that reports that Harris’s campaign was ‘$20 million’ in debt are ‘real,’ adding that Jen O’Malley Dillon, the Harris campaign chair, reportedly ‘blew through a billion dollars in a few months,’” the article read, noting that Dillon apparently was the one who pushed for the campaign to have concerts with celebrities such as Katy Perry, Lizzo, Eminem, and Bruce Springsteen.
In addition, the Harris campaign reportedly paid Oprah Winfrey $1 million on October 15, according to a report in the Washington Examiner, coming after a star-studded town hall that Winfrey hosted for the Harris in September.
As I reported on Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump, in a Saturday post to Truth Social, offered to help the Democrat Party pay off Harris’s campaign debt — for “the sake of desperately needed unity.”
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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. 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!
Was Trump taking a final shot at Harris’s failed campaign, or did he genuinely extend an olive branch? Either way, the president-elect’s offer came as a bit of a surprise to some.
The Bottom Line
The fact that Harris and her campaign blew through a billion dollars — and into millions of dollars in debt — in just a few months ironically serves as a reminder that Democrats spend other people’s money like there’s no tomorrow. For Kamala’s failed campaign, there isn’t.
