Kamala’s $1.5B Campaign ‘Disqualifies Her Forever’ From Running For POTUS: Dem Megadonor
Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) are set to address the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) finance directors amid reports of a significant financial strain on their campaign, which is reportedly $20 million in debt after a period of extravagant spending.
Political donor John Morgan, speaking on NewsNation’s CUOMO on Monday, criticized the campaign’s financial practices. Morgan emphasized that donors supported the Harris-Walz campaign to defeat Trump, not to endorse Harris, while expressing deep concerns about the campaign’s spending decisions.
“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 stated. He attributed much of the excessive spending to “ego” and a “crazy” push for ad commissions.
Campaign expenditures reportedly included $15 million for event production, $4 million on private jets, and $1 million paid to Oprah Winfrey’s company, among other high-priced outlays. When asked if he believed any money had been misappropriated, Morgan quipped, “Maybe legally.”
Morgan also argued that the staggering $1.5 billion spent over just four months demonstrates Harris should not pursue office again. “I think this disqualifies her forever,” he remarked. “If you can’t run a campaign, you can’t run America.”
“This reputation will stick with her throughout her career,” Morgan added. “She cannot be trusted with the money, and donors are going to ask, ‘Where did it all go?’”
Previously, Morgan told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that he would not raise funds for Harris after she announced her presidential bid, describing himself as a “Joe Biden Democrat” with independent leanings.
Lindy Li, a fundraiser who said she secured “millions” for Harris’s campaign, expressed her frustration on Fox & Friends Weekend. Speaking to co-host Will Cain, Li described the campaign as an “epic disaster,” citing the mismanagement of $1 billion in funds, which resulted in significant debt.
“This is just an epic disaster. This is a one-billion-dollar disaster,” Li said. She explained that campaign officials repeatedly misrepresented internal polling data, claiming Harris would easily defeat Trump. “I raised millions of that. Now I have friends to whom I must explain what happened because I told them it was a margin-of-error race.”
Li specifically criticized Harris’s campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, for misleading supporters. According to Li, Dillon reassured surrogates with videos asserting Harris’s eventual victory. “I believed her. My daughters believed her. And so, they wrote massive checks,” Li said. “I feel like a lot of us were misled.”
Li also revealed that tensions between Biden and Harris had been brewing long before Harris replaced him on the 2024 ticket. “There 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,” she noted.
While Harris eventually stabilized her staff amid reports of significant turnover, Li suggested that Biden’s rapid endorsement of his vice president was more a rebuke of the Democratic establishment than a show of solidarity. “Biden’s endorsement of Harris caught a lot of people off guard,” she said. “Even the chief Dems of the party.”
Li bluntly described the endorsement as a “big ‘F you’” before apologizing for the language. She concluded by highlighting the ongoing friction between the Biden and Harris camps, which she said plagued the administration.