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Kamala Harris is still begging for money weeks after her election loss

Kamala Harris is still begging for money weeks after her election loss

Vice President Harris is still pumping in money from Democratic donors weeks after her big election loss — but supporters have run out, critics say.

“With Trump nominating MAGA loyalists left and right, there is nothing more important than making sure we can fight back and hold him accountable,” reads an email from Kamala’s headquarters that The Post received nearly three weeks after the election day received. ‘That’s why we need you to go a step further today. Yes, today.”

“Our records indicate that you have not yet supported our Harris Fight Fund program,” the letter scolded. “We know the elections did not go as we had hoped, but we are not giving up.”


U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris prepares to speak at a campaign rally at United Auto Workers Local 900 in Wayne, Michigan on August 8, 2024
Vice President Harris lost $1.5 billion in just fifteen weeks. Getty Images

Harris raised $1.5 billion and blew it all in just 15 weeks of campaigning, leaving the race with about $20 million in debt, insiders told Politico — a claim the Harris campaign has denied.

The non-stop cheating sends the wrong message and alienates voters, party poohbahs said.

“Getting fundraising requests after a candidate loses, while they admit they are still millions of dollars in debt, having already blown through more than a billion dollars … is particularly hurtful,” Democratic strategist Jon Reinish told The Post.

“When I received another request from the Harris campaign to volunteer. To be honest, I found it insulting.”

The issue is likely to be a major concern for the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who will become the party’s de facto leader after President Biden leaves office.

Those elections are scheduled for February 1. Those included so far are Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and Martin O’Malley, a former governor of Maryland and former Democratic presidential candidate.

A full autopsy of the Kamala campaign should be at the top of the agenda for whoever is next chosen to lead the party, longtime Democratic insider James Carville told The Post.


Supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, holds a sign at Howard University, Washington, USA, November 6, 2024
Democratic insiders are calling for an audit to account for how Team Harris spent the money. REUTERS

“A lot of people are asking questions and there should probably be some kind of audit,” Carville said, adding the efforts are needed to go well beyond Federal Election Commission spending disclosures and focus on “more detailed and much more granular” spending decisions.

In the weeks since her loss, Harris’s profligate spending has raised eyebrows in Democratic circles.

Among the more notable expenditures were $1 million to Oprah’s Harpo Productions; $900,000 to advertise on the Las Vegas Sphere’s outdoor screen; $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, and millions in private jets and luxury hotels.

According to data and reports, over half a billion dollars went to just four well-connected Democratic media consultancies.

None of Harris’s financing emails mention the campaign committee’s expenses or alleged financial problems.

“People are going to want to know which sellers got what money and what they did,” Carville said. “When you have a plane crash, people don’t say, let’s look forward and not look back – no, you look at what happened: was it a mechanical failure, a weather problem or a hydraulic problem. The greatest teacher in the world is mistakes.”