Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ teams are blaming each other for wasting over one billion dollars in donor cash on a doomed presidential campaign.
Since Donald Trump’s historic victory, Democrats have been in disarray over how their sizable war chest was not able to ward off the Republican who they consider a ‘threat to democracy.’
President Joe Biden’s poor performance in his June debate with Trump that led to his last-minute decision to drop out of the race is to blame for Kamala’s loss, Harris aides are saying.
But Biden staff say the vice president ran a terrible three-month campaign and squandered millions of dollars from their top donors.
‘How did you spend $1 billion and not win? What the f***?’ said a former Biden staffer infuriated by Harris team’s excuses.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ White House aides and campaign teams are feuding over who is to blame for spending over $1.2 billion on a losing presidential runs
In total, the Harris campaign spent $1.2 billion on the race while Trump’s campaign spent $750 million, a Financial Times analysis found.
Though some indications show that the race was much more expensive than that.
The Harris campaign, affiliated PACs and the Democratic National Committee amassed over $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 contest ever held according to the analysis.
Despite spending less, Trump ended up trouncing Harris in the electoral and popular vote – which hasn’t been done by the GOP in decades.
As a result, a furious firestorm of criticism has erupted within the top Democratic ranks.
Workers in the White House and on the campaigns are ruthlessly continuing their blame game as to whether the president or vice president really dropped the ball.
Both Democrat’s campaigns spent hundreds of millions on ads hammering home this message, but it didn’t work.
Not only did their campaign end in disaster, but to add insult to injury the operation is reportedly in debt, Politico reports, to the tune of $20 million dollars.
Speaking on a staff call Thursday night, Jen O’Malley Dillon, the Harris campaign manager, nearly burst into tears, sources on the call revealed to 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 emotion, I don’t do that,’ she said. Then she began choking up.
‘You are great people who have done a great thing, and you came really close.’
A Harris staffer on the campaign expressed dismay after the emotional call with the Harris campaign’s top brass.
‘It was detached from the reality of what happened,’ they said of the call.
‘We are told the fate of democracy is at stake, and then the message was, ‘We’ll get them next time.”
Another Harris campaign staffer said they felt deceived by those running the operation.
‘People are depressed and frustrated about the overconfident leadership of the campaign,’ the said.
‘We did what we could. I think the odds against us were insurmountable,’ a Kamala campaign staffer said.
Though the VP’s campaign only began after Biden stepped aside on July 21, she did have $200 million pledged to her within a week, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage to address supporters at his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024
Liberal donors flocked to her and believed she could pick up the mantle that Biden left behind and run a campaign focused primarily on stopping Trump’s return.
Painting Trump as an anti-democracy, fascist, demagogue unfit to wield the reigns of the most powerful office on Earth was the central feature of both the Biden and Harris campaigns.
In fact, the Harris campaign dished out over $650 million on ads from July 22 until Election Day.
Trump, meanwhile, spent about $380 million on ads during that time, according to AdImpact.
The Republican effectively made gains with every demographic group, voting data shows.
Trump made gains with Latinos, black men, urban and younger voters while Harris secured many college-educated voters.