Kamala Harris is still reeling from losing the presidential election to Donald Trump. Heading into Election Day, Harris and her fellow Democrats seemingly thought that she had this election in the bag.
Instead, Trump ended up trouncing Harris not only with the Electoral College, but also in the popular vote. Now, things have gotten even worse for Harris, as her “$1 billion disaster” is being exposed.
New reports have revealed that the Harris campaign blew through over $1 billion in just three months. This goes to show just how desperate she was to win this race.
From The Washington Examiner:
The story of how Harris pocketed record sums while failing to gain support from voters will be studied by campaigns for decades to come. Democrats who successfully pressured octogenarian President Joe Biden to pass the torch to the former California senator are now conducting an internal autopsy of the 2024 race, in which Trump raised and spent hundreds of millions of dollars less than Harris.“A billion dollars paled in comparison to the increased prices Americans were seeing across the country,” Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch and a longtime Trump ally, told the Washington Examiner. “Voters weren’t fooled.”
The Harris campaign and its affiliated committees dropped more than $654 million on advertising from July 22 to Election Day, whereas Trump spent $378 million, or 57% less, in the same category, according to data from AdImpact.
Harris Campaign’s Spending
In mid-October, the Harris campaign revealed that it had spent $880 million this election. This is nearly $526 million greater than the roughly $354 million that the Trump campaign had disclosed spending at the time.
Much of this money was spent on digital media advertising and traveling from state to state. Some was spent on a private jet company called Advanced Aviation.
The Harris campaign spent $56.6 million on payroll and the taxes that accompanied this. In contrast, Team Trump spent just $9 million on payroll, employing hundreds fewer staff members.
Last month, the Harris campaign paid $1 million to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions for the fawning interview that she did with the mogul. The campaign also spent six figures on building a set for Harris’s appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast with host Alex Cooper. This podcast is popular with young people, particularly with women.
Unfortunately for Harris, this was all for nought, as she still lost the election handily.
“Money can’t buy you love or a good candidate,” one Trump campaign adviser bluntly said.
Republican political strategist Brad Todd believes that in the end, having tons of money didn’t matter for Harris because her message was off.
“Advertising is a pretty important source of information for swing voters,” Todd said. “It no doubt matters, but it’s not enough. It doesn’t matter if you have the wrong message and it’s not delivered in a compelling way. What her campaign was missing was any effort to break with the unpopular administration she has been a part of.”
Trump Responds
As for Trump, he claims to have money left over after Harris blew through $1 billion and then some.
“I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over,” Trump recently said. “We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was ‘Earned Media,’ and that doesn’t cost very much. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
BOOM!
It seems that all the money in the world couldn’t save Harris. She was an unlikable and incompetent candidate from the very beginning. In the end, the American people saw right through Harris!
Sources: The Washington Examiner, Breitbart News
