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‘We’re Going To Audit Everything’: Democratic Strategist James Carville Blasts Kamala’s Campaign Spending
Despite raising an estimated $2.5 billion, Kamala Harris and associated organizations were unable to make a compelling case to voters and the comparatively thrifty campaign of President Donald Trump came away with a landslide victory.
Worse yet, Team Kamala somehow reportedly owes about $20 billion, and longtime Democratic strategist James Carville wants to know where all that money went.
As The Hill reported:
The DNC is set to hold its leadership elections in February, less than two weeks after Trump is inaugurated. During the recent podcast, Carville noted that people had asked him to throw his hat in the ring, though he suggested a bid wasn’t on his to-do list.
Still, he said the campaign’s finances will most likely be audited amid concerns.
“I would say the policy, number one, is we’re going to audit everything. We’re going to audit the campaign,” Carville said Thursday, while specifically pointing to a pro-Harris super PAC. “We’re going to audit Future Forward. We’re going to audit the DNC so people can know.”
“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,” the strategist continued. “That’s two and a half freaking billion dollars.”
The Harris campaign’s spending has been the topic of significant scrutiny in the weeks since the election:
Chris Cuomo: “Stop sending me fundraising emails, you spent 1.5 billion dollars.” pic.twitter.com/Zt41hkRyvZ
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) November 27, 2024
Fox News obliterates Kamala Harris for her boasting about spending $1.5 billion on her campaign and losing pic.twitter.com/iP9WmiCxYs
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) November 28, 2024
And similar concerns have followed her throughout her political career:
FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris aides blew the whistle on her “lavish spending” from campaign finance accounts to fund a “life of luxury” and said she treated her campaign donations like a personal checking account.
Are there ANY former Kamala staffers who say ANYTHING good about her? pic.twitter.com/QnB3KxQhhh
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 1, 2024
But despite it all, Harris is still hitting up voters for even more money, as Politico reported:
The fundraising appeals may be necessary: Harris’ operation ended with around $20 million in debt, according to two people familiar with her campaign finances and granted anonymity to speak freely. And there are limited ways campaigns can pay that down under federal law.
The emails themselves don’t mention debt, instead citing the organization’s support for recount efforts in close races and legal challenges. And the Harris campaign denies that the campaign or affiliated joint fundraising committees had outstanding debts on Election Day, and says they won’t report debts owed in future Federal Election Commission reports due in December.
But the fundraising appeals have still continued, and some Democrats fear she may be compounding the party’s problems with the tone of some of her appeals — damaging relationships with online donors who have long powered the party. In just a few months, the vice president built up a record-breaking fundraising operation. She raked in funds from millions of online donorswithin the first week of her candidacy, and continued to hold fundraising events well into the fall. Now those same donors who helped her raise more than $1.4 billion are among the people being asked to give more. The emails still come two or three times a day.
Here’s some additional coverage of the backlash:
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