Every day, in fact, the people registered on the mailing lists of the Kamala Harris campaign receive text messages and emails asking them to donate to the Harris Fight Fund, the “Kamala Harris Fight Fund”. As a journalist I am registered on these lists and therefore I receive this type of daily message: “Anne, could you contribute $50 by midnight?”
What is the reason given?
We are told that there are still votes to be counted for certain seats in the Senate and the House and to ensure that this is done well we need money, but we also know that Kamala Harris' campaign is leaving behind 20 million dollars in debt and she needs to pay them off.
However, it has raised more than a billion dollars. According to the New York Times, the billion mark was exceeded at the beginning of October. We have already seen such an amount in a presidential campaign but not in just three months. No candidate for the White House has entered the race in such a resounding way, a cash machine but which has taken off in the advertising spots, broadcast in particular in the performance hall The Sphere in Las Vegas, where it would be $450,000 per day; in meetings with stars sometimes: Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga or Katy Perry; in the production of shows – for the one presented by Oprah Winfrey we are talking about a million dollars, etc. With, we know: a defeat at stake and a slate of 20 million.
Donors react badly
“This campaign is a disaster,” This is what Lyndi Li does not hesitate to declare. She is part of the financial committee of the Democratic Conventionshe has been raising funds for the party for months and she no longer knows what to say to the donors who ask her to account, what was their money used for? She was on the NewsNation set yesterday:
“It’s astonishing. It is for me and for many of my dear donors. I've only had an hour without a phone call, they're completely in shock, they're demanding answers, but we don't know what happened, we haven't really had an explanation yet from the countryside. We were guaranteed a victory, 100%.”
Exasperated donors, 20 million dollars to find, a new leader to find… the Democratic party is definitely in very difficult situations.
