Democratic strategist James Carville warned Wednesday that the Democratic Party’s reputation has been profoundly damaged by massive spending during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and the Democratic Party reportedly spent almost $1.5 billion during her brief presidential campaign, which began on July 21. Carville, on “Politics War Room,” predicted future fundraising struggles and urged the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to conduct an audit to restore credibility and account for the funds.
“The resistance is going to have trouble raising money. These fundraisers are burnt,” Carville said. “They’re really pissed now, and the damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done to the Democratic brand — is almost unfathomable. Almost unfathomable.”
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“So I have people that are contacting me to run for DNC chair. Promise you I’m not going to to get in the middle of that … But I would say the policy, number one, is we’re going to audit everything. We’re going to audit the campaign. We’re going to audit Future Forward. We’re going to audit the DNC so people can know,” he added. “But I’m telling you, without complete transparency, the campaign — we think — raised a billion and a half dollars. Okay, we know that Future Forward, the last we saw, was $900 million, so we can assume that they got to a billion before election. That’s two and a half freaking billion dollars.”
Future Forward was Harris’ primary aligned Super PAC and raised more than $900 million to back the vice president’s presidential campaign, which is a record for external political groups during an election cycle, The New York Times reported.
“Do you have any idea where that money went? Does anybody have any idea where that money went?” Carville asked. “I mean, I have some places I’d start looking … I promise you this: the amount of money and the amount of lobbyists that were involved in this campaign is staggering.”
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DNC National Finance Committee member Lindy Li asserted Tuesday that she was shocked that Harris did not take “responsibility” for her campaign’s exorbitant spending following the vice president’s donor call the same day.
“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,” Li said. “We lost seven swing states.”
“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,” she added. “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.’”
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Moreover, Democratic megadonor John Morgan said Monday that he believes Harris’ campaign spending permanently “disqualifies her” from politics.
“If you can’t run a campaign, you can’t run America. And that would be the argument just day one,” Morgan said. “So it was terrible.”
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