Looks Like Kamala Thought She Was Oprah Winfrey and Just Spent the Democrat Party Into Political Oblivion

One of the most fascinating presidential election post-mortems has got to be the forensic look into the freewheeling spending habits of Kamala Harris, who managed to blow over $1 billion dollars in the 107 days that she was the Democrat Party’s presidential candidate. That number, while still staggering, would have made more sense if she had actually been the candidate for more than three months, but her spendthrift ways only managed to buy her losses in both the popular and Electoral College votes.

Kamala and her team seemed to think they could spend like they were multi-billionaire Oprah Winfrey, who, by the way, may or may not have been paid $1 million for a September 19 “Unite for America” event with Harris in Detroit. As it turns out, Kamala wasn’t nearly as flush as she thought and she may have just spent the Democrat Party into oblivion.

Reports have been popping up in the week since the election that Harris’s campaign grossly mismanaged their funds, with exorbitant amounts allegedly being spent to secure appearances from megastars like Beyoncé and Eminem.

HOLY SMOKES! Kamala’s campaign wasted $20M to buy the endorsements of celebrities

$5M to Megan Thee Stallion
$3M to Lizzo
$1.8M for Eminem
$1M for Oprah

Paid 6 figures to appear on the ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 11, 2024

While Donald Trump was out getting millions of dollars of free media by going on podcasts and riding in a garbage truck, Kamala wracked up hefty bills by trying to woo the Hollywood set. Apparently, there’s a bigger political payoff to be found by actually talking directly to Americans than by paying your celebrity friends to talk down to voters. Who knew?

Well, in the words of Barack Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, the chickens have come home to roost for the Democrat Party after months of Kamala Harris’s profligate spending. Not only do the Democrats find themselves in the political wilderness at the hands of American voters, they face their efforts at regrouping being hampered by the millions of dollars of debt incurred by the Harris/Walz campaign. 

Sounds like they had a good time with absolutely nothing to show for it. And the 2026 election cycle started last Wednesday.

Tensions seem to be coming to a head within the Democrat Party, with reports surfacing that Harris campaign staffers fear not being paid for their work and vendors worrying that their invoices will go unpaid. It’s common in the political world for staffers and vendors to get stiffed, particularly by losing candidates, but few campaigns have overspent in quite the spectacular fashion of Kamala Harris.

A Wednesday report revealed that “Democratic leaders are increasingly anxious about being left with a big bill from Kamala Harris‘ campaign, which is likely to end millions of dollars in debt.”

Why it matters: Debt beyond a few million bucks could hamper the Democratic National Committee’s efforts to rebuild the party over the next four years.

Particular scrutiny is being paid to the amount of money spent to have Democrat National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison followed by a documentary crew since the Democratic National Convention back in August. This speaks to the absolute confidence of Democrats that their side was going to win handily and continue to benefit from the windfall of donations that they had been receiving. They also apparently think they are all celebrities who need to have their every move videoed. Go figure.

Democrats are indeed facing an existential crisis. Not only have their radical ideas been soundly rejected by the American electorate, they enter an important midterm election cycle, which is not typically favorable to the party holding the White House, in a less-than-stellar financial state. If they can’t get their act together on multiple fronts, they are staring down an extended period of time in the political wilderness, and, frankly, they richly deserve to be there.

Also, if they can’t control their campaign spending, why in the world would voters want them managing the federal budget? One Harris campaign aide put it this way: “How do you raise a historic amount of money and not win a single swing state? The honest answer is: I don’t know. It seems we lost the national narrative, and that’s what we need to diagnose.”

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