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Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) are scheduled to address the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) finance directors amid reports that their campaign is $20 million in debt following a lavish spending spree.
Political mega-donor John Morgan told NewsNation’s CUOMO on Monday that those who invested in the Harris-Walz campaign were focused on defeating Trump, not electing Harris while expressing serious concern over the campaign’s spending.
“All of a sudden, everybody’s got the keys to the candy store — ad buyers, talent consultants. There’s 100 days to do it, and the money started pouring in,” Morgan said, adding that “ego” and a “crazy” desire to get commissions on ads drove much of the spending.
The spending included $15 million for “event production,” $4 million on private jets, and an additional $1 million paid to Oprah’s company, among other expensive purchases.
When asked if Morgan believes someone might have stolen the money, he responded, “Maybe legally.”
The donor also stated that the reported $1.5 billion spent in just four months is evidence that Harris should not run for office again.
“I think this disqualifies her forever,” Morgan said. “If you can’t run a campaign, you can’t run America.”
“The same thing is going to follow Harris for the rest of her career. She cannot be trusted with the money, and the donors are going to be, like, ‘Where is this money?’” he added.
In July, Morgan told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that he would not fundraise for Harris after she entered the presidential race, describing himself as a “Joe Biden-Democrat” and identifying as an independent.
A surrogate for Harris’ campaign against now-President-elect Donald Trump told “Fox & Friends Weekend” this month that top campaign officials “misled” her and others and that the overall effort by the vice president was an “epic disaster.”
Lindy Li, who said she raised “millions” for Harris, explained to co-host Will Cain that Harris’s campaign officials made a series of false promises and repeatedly claimed that the internal data showed the vice president would handily defeat Trump.
“This is just an epic disaster. This is a one-billion-dollar disaster,” Li said, referencing how the losing Harris campaign blew through $1 billion in fundraising and ended up with millions of dollars in debt.
“It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have friends that I have to be accountable to and to explain what happened because I told them it was a margin of error race,” she added.
Li stated that Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon assured all Harris surrogates that the vice president would win, even going so far as to produce videos to reinforce the message. “I believed her. My daughters believed her. And so, they wrote massive checks,” Li told the Fox News co-host. “I feel like a lot of us were misled.”
She also told Cain earlier in the interview that the “backstabbing” between Biden and Harris began long before the vice president replaced him on the 2024 ticket.
“It was a lot of backstabbing we saw in the press; people were leaking stuff all the time. The White House was leaking like a sieve when it came to Kamala Harris,” said Li.
“In the final years she was able to stabilize and stop the bleeding of her staff because there was a lot of turnover as well. And we saw the press report about that. And things have finally started to calm down,” she said, going on to add that President Joe Biden’s rapid endorsement of his VP was in response to his anger at the Democratic machine for forcing him out.
“Kamala Harris wasn’t at the top of the ticket,” Li said. “Biden’s endorsement of Harris caught a lot of people off guard. Even the chief Dems of the party.”
“I really think it was a big fu— a big ‘F you,’ I’m so sorry,” she said to Cain, catching herself before finishing the statement. She also said that there was constant friction between the Biden and Harris camps.
