Dems Facing Even More Trouble Now With Money and Unhappy Donors

A new report is revealing how much trouble the DNC is in terms of money. 

The report revealed some of what the DNC is hearing from its donors, and 
it's not good. 

At one point earlier this year, the DNC reached out to big donors to host 
a San Francisco-area fundraiser headlined by former Vice President Kamala 
Harris. Most of the donors rejected the request, according to several 
people familiar with the conversations.

Upon receiving the invitation, one replied with a profanity-laced 
rejection. Others said they didn’t want to give to the party until it 
produced substantive plans to win elections. Those who declined told the 
national party they had commitments and couldn’t make it work.

They ultimately found someone to host, but got less than they expected. 

That's brutal. And it tells you what they think about Kamala Harris, at 
least at this point. She's dropping hints she may run, but I don't think 
she will find an encouraging reception. 

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That may explain why Democrats have so much less in the bank than 
Republicans. 

The RNC had receipts of $10.7 million in the most recent month and $86 
million in cash reserves as it started October, compared with $10.3 
million and about $12 million for the DNC, respectively.

There's also a concern about the radicals, and if the DNC is focused in 
the right direction. 

Rachel Pritzker, a donor and fundraiser who chairs a group trying to push 
Democrats closer to the center, said many party donors are concerned that 
the progressivism pushed by such figures as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 
(D., N.Y.) and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the self-described democratic 
socialist favored in New York City’s Nov. 4 mayoral election, will hurt 
Democrats.

“They’re worried that the way the party looks and sounds can’t really 
compete and win elections,” said Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel 
fortune and a relative of the Democratic billionaire governor of Illinois, 
JB Pritzker. “They’re worried that it needs to reorient toward the 
cultural mainstream and it needs to basically rebrand.”

And why should they give more money after how it was blown on Kamala 
Harris? They feel as though there hasn't been enough investigation as to 
how it was spent. 

A top official at a national Democratic group said some donors remain 
angry about how their money was spent in last year’s presidential election 
by outside groups, including on what they see as excessive salaries for 
Washington, D.C., consultants. The official said the party has failed to 
complete a public postelection investigation into what went wrong in 2024.

Pritzker, chair of the group Third Way, said, “It is shocking how little 
reassessment the party and its leadership has done.”

This report sounds like it tailors to what I reported on Friday about 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's problem with donations.

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The continuing schism and the failure to address their issues are hurting 
the Democrats in their pocket. With bad approval, bad policies, and less 
money, they need to change. But they're just not getting it. 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/10/26/dnc-donations-problem-n2195502