As the finger-pointing begins, and the autopsy of the Kamala Harris campaign continues, financial details are being released on how the Harris campaign managed to blow more than $1 billion in war-chest funds — and not only lose, but get wiped off the electoral map by Donald Trump, who ended his campaign with roughly $488 million. That’s not a Dr. Evil typo: Kamala Harris not only blew a billion dollars, but actually ended up $20 million in debt.
As it turns out, the Harris campaign wasn’t run much differently. As reported in the Washington Examiner, the Harris campaign spent upwards of six figures to build a custom set for her appearance on the Call Me Daddy podcast, which only netted about 800,000 downloads.
There were seven swing-state concerts that involved high-priced performers — Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jon Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin and more — who seemingly ended up costing the Harris campaign more than $20 million on event production alone, and reportedly even more on paying the celebrities to appear. Even Oprah Winfrey charged the campaign $1 million to show up. The campaign went so far into debt that the campaign was reportedly forced to scrap Canadian Nineties indie-pop singer Alanis Morissette to save money. The pop concert campaign strategy is said to have been the brainchild of former Obama advisors on the campaign.
Of course it was lmao. I saw approximately one million ads of the Democratic politicians begging for donations, and I’m not even on their email and phone lists. Thinking about all the regular working people who donated their hard-earned money for it to be lit on fire by a PodJohn
Edit: I had almost forgotten about the Kamala Fashion Week party
During the campaign I thought the celebrity appearances were a really bad move… making the Democrats look completely out of touch when average Americans have rising living costs.
Yeah I also thought that as a non American. It was probably one of the worst moves to make when running against Trump. Trump’s major appeal to a lot of people is that he’s an outsider running against the “liberal elite”. Harris being endorsed by most major celebrities just reinforces that idea.
Even before results started coming in, the difference between election night rallies was obvious. Kamala had the bigger production, but the crowd seemed dead in comparison. Like they were just there for a free concert
some part of the decision matrix has to be that without free concerts from big celebrities, they cannot draw crowds.