Hooker Harris Raised $1 Billion. Where Did it All Go?

Kamala Harris raised more than $1 billion for her presidential campaign 
… which ultimately failed. In the afterglow of stunning defeat, some 
Democrats are now asking how she could have possibly spent anywhere near 
that much money and still lost her shot at the White House.

The Harris campaign finished out the race with at least $20 million in 
debt, two sources familiar told Politico’s Christopher Cadelago, who 
wrote on X Wednesday night that of the $1 billion Harris had raised, 
only $118 million remained in cash as of October 16.

With the realization that all of that spending ultimately accomplished 
very little and cost the party control of the White House and Senate 
(and maybe even the House), Democrats are now beginning to point fingers.

“We spent money in stupid ways because we had a really bad strategy,” a 
former consultant to the DNC told Puck’s Tara Palmeri. He cited money 
sent to fund Representative Colin Allred’s failed challenge against 
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, as well as money directed to help in Iowa, a 
state Democrats never, ever win.

“Instead of owning any mistakes, or being transparent about the voter 
data and strategies that were so obviously wrong, they shut off their 
Twitter account and are patting each other on the back,” the former 
consultant said. “We dug out of a deep hole but not enough.”

Inside Harris’s crumbled campaign, some feel that they were misled about 
her chances, and led to believe it would be a margin-of-error race. In 
reality, Trump blew apart Harris’s play for the blue wall states and 
beat her by more than four million votes.

“People are depressed and frustrated about the overconfident leadership 
of the campaign,” one staffer told Axios.

One Biden staffer put it more simply: “How did you spend $1 billion and 
not win? What the fuck?”

Harris’s campaign budget was closely guarded by campaign manager Jen 
O’Malley Dillon, so it’s unclear exactly how funds were allocated. An 
official for the DNC said that the majority of campaign spending was 
toward major events, paid media, and Harris’s supposedly expansive 
ground game—one that ultimately didn’t drum up that many votes at all.

What’s clear is that Harris ran a very expensive campaign, one that 
dwarfed Donald Trump’s efforts. The campaign spent an average of $7.5 
million a day in August, in comparison to the $2.7 million that Trump 
spent. In September, the Harris campaign spent $152 million on 
advertising, more than double the $63 million that Trump shelled out.

Unfortunately for Harris, dollars didn’t seem to translate into votes. 
And even after Harris lost, her campaign is still sending out slates of 
fundraising requests.

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