The D.N.C. Is in Chaos and Desperate for Cash

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/dnc-ken-martin.html

Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.

Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the party’s financial commitments to every state, and even to far-flung territories like Guam.

Fellow Democrats are grumbling that Mr. Martin, who quietly accepted a raise after taking the post, has been badly distracted by internal battles. So far, they say, he has been unable to help unite his party against Republicans, who control the federal government.


Didn’t the DNC raise a billion dollars for Kamala? Why is this happening?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/dnc-ken-martin.html

Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.

Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the party’s financial commitments to every state, and even to far-flung territories like Guam.

Fellow Democrats are grumbling that Mr. Martin, who quietly accepted a raise after taking the post, has been badly distracted by internal battles. So far, they say, he has been unable to help unite his party against Republicans, who control the federal government.


Didn’t the DNC raise a billion dollars for Kamala? Why is this happening?

Oh I did not realize they were still round. I m sure they will poke their heads up to support Israel’s war. It’s not like they do anything.

[Anonymous]

Didn’t they raise billions for Kamala via ActBlue? Where did that money all go?

Trump should investigate Act Blue. They text all the time begging for cash yet they have billions in their coffers

[Anonymous]

Ken Martin needs to resign. Ben Wickler really should have been elected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ken Martin needs to resign. Ben Wikler really should have been elected.

This.

[Anonymous]

The party is so unpopular that they managed to lose to Donald Trump. They need to move to the center and shed the extreme wing of their party. That’s all who’s left though, after they’ve purged everyone who doesn’t toe the line.

[Anonymous]

Not surprising! As a Democrat, I dislike the DNC - they consistently make bad decisions and they have crummy leadership.

[Anonymous]

F them. A billion dollars and they still couldn’t manage a single, believable message. It’s like they took the money to make their friends rich.

[Anonymous]

They need to reconnect with their base. Maybe another fundraiser in East Hampton.

[Anonymous]

Looks like the saying, “Go woke, go broke” has some truth to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They need to reconnect with their base. Maybe another fundraiser in East Hampton.

I spit out my Berkeley Roast after your post. Thanks for the laugh,

[Anonymous]

I’m not surprised. I’m not giving political money before. I gave a ton in 2020–at least most of the senatorial candidates I supported won
I think the donors will come back next year even if the party is a crapfest, because the mid terms are importsnt. At the moment we are directing money to thinks that uSAID and other governmental dollars used to support. I’m not donating to DNC just so they can squabble amongst themselves. Things will come into sharper focus later this year and early next year and will be cooking with gas next summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising! As a Democrat, I dislike the DNC - they consistently make bad decisions and they have crummy leadership.

They do support some important voting rights litigation without which it would be increasingly difficult to win in some states. They are often the lead pocketbook on a lot of those cases.
I’m not sure how much they do as far as crafting candidate messages. I don’t think they play much role there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/dnc-ken-martin.html

Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.

Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the party’s financial commitments to every state, and even to far-flung territories like Guam.

Fellow Democrats are grumbling that Mr. Martin, who quietly accepted a raise after taking the post, has been badly distracted by internal battles. So far, they say, he has been unable to help unite his party against Republicans, who control the federal government.


Didn’t the DNC raise a billion dollars for Kamala? Why is this happening?

Over 15 billion "donated" dollars have been spent on presidential elections since 2016 with the amount raised and spent in 2020 and 2024 being over 100% more than in any previous election cycle. This investment into presidential campaigns gave the donating entities a return of Trump-Biden-Trump. 15 billion dollars spent to give us the worst leadership in American history.

Our political landscape has been poisoned by money and we're seeing the effects of this in Federal Government functionality. This is much, much more than just a DNC problem. The GOP was first to push the concept of loosening campaign finance regulations so that large donating entities could more easily pay to play and now 99% of Federal level politicians are puppets of their mega-donors.

Campaign finance in Federal level politics is a hot mess of the ultra wealthy buying political influence. Reducing the influence of money in politics won't be an easy fix. The first step is the American people understanding and acknowledging this as problem number one in politics and government.

[Anonymous]

These old f#cks that run the DNC and have all the senior committee seats need to resign.

I’m convinced they are hanging on because there’s a degree of immunity that comes with being a member of Congress.