I always chuckle when Lefties complain about money in politics and then outspend Republicans by quite a bit in elections. “Get money outta politics, arrrrggggggghhhh, Republicans are terrible for spending so much. Elon Musk bad bad bad. Oh wait…we spent how much???”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3235117/among-democrats-post-harris-recriminations-heat-up/
Democrats are angry about a lot of things. But the three that have attracted some attention in the last few days are 1) the massive amount of money Harris spent and where it went, 2) the campaign role Harris gave to former Rep. Liz Cheney, and 3) the part the media played in Harris’s loss and Trump’s win. All have Democrats nearly gagging in disbelief and, in some cases, anger.
The Harris campaign’s incredible extravagance was first reported by the
Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky here. The pace of spending was astonishing — the campaign spent $1.5 billion in a campaign that lasted only 15 weeks. That is $100 million
per week, a sum that has campaign experts shaking their heads. Just look at the headline of this
New York Times story: “How Kamala Harris Burned Through $1.5 Billion in 15 Weeks; Her frenzied spending has led to second-guessing among some Democrats and questions as she has pressed for more cash since the election.”
Harris spent far more than Trump, with way less bang for the buck. “Despite her significant financial advantage, Ms. Harris became the first Democratic presidential candidate to lose the national popular vote in two decades, ceding every battleground state to Mr. Trump,” the
New York Times reported. “Her cash-rich campaign spared no expense as it hunted for voters — paying for an avalanche of advertising, social-media influencers, a for-hire door-knocking operation, thousands of staff, pricey rallies, a splashy Oprah town hall, celebrity concerts and even drone shows.” The money burn made Democrats wonder “whether investing in celebrity-fueled events with stars such as Lady Gaga and Beyonce was more ostentation than effective.”
Harris wrote a seven-figure check to Oprah Winfrey’s company for that town hall-style show. There was a six-figure expenditure to build a set for a podcast. And “around $900,000 to book advertising on the exterior of the Sphere venue in Las Vegas,” according to the
New York Times. All this was financed, of course, by a flood of donations from Democrats who wanted to make sure Harris had the resources to defeat Trump. “We had so much money it was hard to get it out the door,” Bakari Sellers, an ally of Harris, told the
New York Times.
