Losing the election with that kind of cash on hand is bad enough. Harris had other help too. Almost every pollster had Harris up at least a little. Much of legacy media, at least commentators, were in the bag for Harris. Hollywood and Silicon Valley elites, excluding a few, were vocally supporting her. Some, like Oprah and Beyoncé had openly endorsed her, throwing their extraordinary star power behind a female politician in the name of girl power.
Now that we’re a few weeks from the election, we’ve learned a bit more about the inner workings of the Democratic Party leading up to November. It’s not pretty. In fact, it’s a microcosm of what Harris would have done if elected President.
Harris spent funds like crazy
The New York Times reported that in 15 weeks, Harris’ campaign “burned through” $1.5 billion, which averages out to $100 million per week. Between July and October, Harris spent $494 million on media advertising.
Some of Harris’ spending was just outright ostentatious: They spent nearly $1 million to book advertising on the exterior of the Sphere venue in Las Vegas just before election day. During the last week of the campaign, they spent $2.6 million just on private jets.
To what end?
Of course, campaigns do cost money. Donald Trump’s campaign spent money too. But Harris’ campaign lost and lost by a significant margin.
To paraphrase an X user, Harris spent over $1 billion in donor funds for her own race. How did Americans think she would spend their money?
Everything is a ruse
This is one of many examples demonstrating that the Democratic Party isn’t – and wasn’t – fit to lead Americans for the next four years. The narrative the Harris campaign presented didn’t match reality.
The Harris campaign touted a better economy. Their evidence? Programs that included down payment assistance for qualified first-time home buyers. Reality? The Harris campaign was spending donor money as fast as they could acquire it.
Where did average Democrats who voted for Harris think she’d get the funds for down payments for home buyers, if not them - the taxpayer? That’s just one example.
Now we’ve learned that even the Harris campaign was struggling but didn’t tell party leadership.
Harris’ senior adviser David Plouffe recently revealed on Pod Save America, a podcast hosted by former President Barack Obama staffers, that while many polls suggested Harris had a lead on Trump, their internal polling never showed that.
"I think it surprised people because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw," Plouffe said.
Worse, insiders on the campaign, who knew Harris was not leading Trump, did not share this with Democratic Party leadership.
"That's not what we were told," DNC National Finance Committee Lindy Li told Fox News Digital. "We were told definitely that she had a shot at winning – it wasn't even a shot. I was even told that Pennsylvania was looking good, that we would win 3-4 swing states."
It’s disturbing to see the level of hypocrisy and deception within the Harris campaign. They were behind and knew it, but didn’t share it within their own leadership. Instead, they continued to raise – and spend – extraordinary amounts of donor funds, based on the narrative that they were winning or would win. Even though both sentiments were already being proven false.
Elections can’t be bought
It’s nice to know, as a conservative in favor of federalism and the electoral college, that elections can’t be bought. At least for now.
Every state in the Union became slightly more conservative this cycle. Progressive values, especially very far left liberalism, are out. Conservativism, or at least Trump’s version, is in. Trump swept even swing states, to the surprise of probably everyone but the millions of conservatives who weren’t swayed by Harris’ lavish campaign stunts or public polls that proved to be flat-out false.
The Harris campaign promised Americans a better life if they voted for her, economically, socially and even in terms of domestic and global security.
But by the way her campaign was run, it’s clear this was all talk; a narrative that truly sounded too good to be true. It was all a ruse. Harris overspent tens of millions of donor dollars and when the campaign knew they were behind in the polls, kept that a secret, even from party leadership.
The Harris campaign couldn’t be trusted to run a solid campaign, let alone a country. She’d have wasted our hard-earned money too. It’s a good thing she lost. The Democratic Party has a long way to go to recover.
