As the finger-pointing begins, and the autopsy of the Kamala Harris campaign continues, financial details are being released on how the Harris campaign managed to blow more than $1 billion in war-chest funds — and not only lose, but get wiped off the electoral map by Donald Trump, who ended his campaign with roughly $488 million. That’s not a Dr. Evil typo: Kamala Harris not only blew a billion dollars, but actually ended up $20 million in debt.
As it turns out, the Harris campaign wasn’t run much differently. As reported in the Washington Examiner, the Harris campaign spent upwards of six figures to build a custom set for her appearance on the Call Me Daddy podcast, which only netted about 800,000 downloads.
There were seven swing-state concerts that involved high-priced performers — Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jon Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin and more — who seemingly ended up costing the Harris campaign more than $20 million on event production alone, and reportedly even more on paying the celebrities to appear. Even Oprah Winfrey charged the campaign $1 million to show up. The campaign went so far into debt that the campaign was reportedly forced to scrap Canadian Nineties indie-pop singer Alanis Morissette to save money. The pop concert campaign strategy is said to have been the brainchild of former Obama advisors on the campaign.
Of course it was lmao. I saw approximately one million ads of the Democratic politicians begging for donations, and I'm not even on their email and phone lists. Thinking about all the regular working people who donated their hard-earned money for it to be lit on fire by a PodJohn
https://thespectator.com/newsletter/kamala-harris-ran-the-fyre-festival-of-campaigns-bad-press-11-11-2024/
Edit: I had almost forgotten about the Kamala Fashion Week party
It’s just one big money laundering network. They’re paying friends/cronies big money through seemingly legitimate use of the campaign funds. It’s all about connections and who you know if you want to get rich.
Well yeah, it’s textbook corruption, but typically this step of that network goes the other direction. Rich celebrities are usually big Dem donors, and they’ll maybe get kickbacks in some way but generally the idea is to funnel money from those celebs to vendors and consultants and other party insiders.
It's the Obama playbook, being able to hang out with cool celebrities afterwards is more important than politics or winning or any of that silly stuff
The middle men are their friends. They’re paying their friends using the money that came from rich donors.
That’s what they normally do, that’s what I’m saying. They didn’t just give a bunch of money to middle men, that’s the whole point of a Democratic Party campaign, what’s notable is giving a bunch of money to rich celebrities who are normally big donors.
It’s the money going to people who aren’t middle men and consultants that confuses me.