Harris Campaign Ends $20 Million in Debt

[Anonymous]

I read when Obama was President, the Democrats stopped the process of paying consultants 15% of ad buys and switched to a fixed fee.
Is this still the case, or did they keep a hundred million dollars on ad buys?
The process encourages more ad buys rather than getting people to vote, and is why Republicans generally lose.

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Harris campaign raised over $600 million, ActBlue superPAC raised over $1 billion — two separate buckets of money. Both are twice what the opposite numbers raised.

Going into the last week of the campaign, Harris campaign had only spent half of it. Trump campaign and the red superPAC had also spent only half of what they had raised.

How in the hell is there now $20 million in debt?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harris campaign raised over $600 million, ActBlue superPAC raised over $1 billion — two separate buckets of money. Both are twice what the opposite numbers raised.

Going into the last week of the campaign, Harris campaign had only spent half of it. Trump campaign and the red superPAC had also spent only half of what they had raised.

How in the hell is there now $20 million in debt?[/quote

How do you know what they had going into the last week? They don't report October spending until next year.

[Anonymous]

Well, common sense would suggest that really good people hawk themselves - they don't need others to do that. Good products also sell themselves. Advertisement is about outreach and promotion. It is NOT about selling the color blue, purple. I kept saying - the more she invites celebrities to to endorse her and introduce her at events, the worse it is for her. We're not all electing George Clooney or Beyonce. We're electing her.

Look at Trump - as goofy as he was - he went everywhere and showcased himself. He did a podcast that he spoke on. Regardless of how boring, weird, senseless and dumb he sounded - he was there himself. No surrogates - all him - warts and all. That's what people need to see - authenticity. Yes, he's a basket case and a demon but at least you know what he is. Who knew what Kamala was?!

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Why even donate to a presidential campaign at this point? So your money can go to Oprah, Lizzo and Beyonce? And then you get blasted with further texts and emails nonstop for the pleasure?

This is ridiculously poor stewardship. What a crapshow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And these people campaigned to be in charge of this country’s finances?

Please open your hymnal to the Constitution, Article II. Congress is in charge of the country’s finances.

But Harris’s weak track record as an executive was not a point in her favor - imagine if we’d nominated someone with a strong track record who could have taken on Trump in this regard.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And these people campaigned to be in charge of this country’s finances?

Please open your hymnal to the Constitution, Article II. Congress is in charge of the country’s finances.

But Harris’s weak track record as an executive was not a point in her favor - imagine if we’d nominated someone with a strong track record who could have taken on Trump in this regard.

But instead of nominating a strong, smart, and attractive male figure to take on Trump, Democrats have twice thought that it was more important to show that women could do the job. Nope. And that's just reality.

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Anonymous wrote:Harris campaign raised over $600 million, ActBlue superPAC raised over $1 billion — two separate buckets of money. Both are twice what the opposite numbers raised.

Going into the last week of the campaign, Harris campaign had only spent half of it. Trump campaign and the red superPAC had also spent only half of what they had raised.

How in the hell is there now $20 million in debt?

Jay Z had to do something while an Oberlin grad used her $300K education to teachers Beyonce her lines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like typical democratic money management

Right.
How was she going to run the economy if she had a billion dollars and ended up 20 million in debt?

[Anonymous]

It’s just a ploy to get Soros to cough up more money.

All those YouTube ads and celebrity appearances are expensive.

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Anonymous wrote:SHE SPEND OVER A BILLION DOLLARS! Usually whomever out spends wins. She massively outspent Trump and lost horribly. That should tell the dems something.

It does. America is Taliban like towards women. Women are not meant to lead, but follow. Stay in your place.

She’s leading already and will be here in 2028. Hold tight.

And this three-time Trump voter will gladly vote for her when she steps up.

JD is the right guy right now, but in ‘28 I’m with her.

I love Tulsi.

[Anonymous]

All that money wasted on paying celebrities to appear with her, thinking we would be impressed. Her campaign ended the same way Hillary’s did, with a celebrity-filled rally in Philadelphia. Both candidates crashed and burned the next day.

[Anonymous]

Kamala Harris burned through $20 million on concerts, risking unpaid staff and vendors

Harris's campaign concerts, featuring high-profile artists, reportedly exhausted funds, leaving the campaign in debt and staff unpaid.

Kamala Harris had a spectacular concert eve on the election day on Monday night just before her sore loss to Donald Trump in the presidential race. The VP reportedly blew up $20 million on the concerts and now the staff and vendors fear they will not be paid for their services as the reports of the campaign being in debt emerge.

The defeated campaign’s members revealed to The Post that the concerts had emptied the coffers of the Democratic campaign. This was hinted at earlier as well when they cancelled one performance by ’90s alt-rock goddess Alanis Morissette to save some bucks, as reported by The New York Post.
The concert eve featured performances by artists such as Bon Jovi in Detroit, Christina Aguilera in Las Vegas, Katy Perry in Pittsburgh and Lady Gaga in Philadelphia. For the eighth concert, 2Chainz joined Harris in Atlanta, three days prior to the election day, on November 2.


Two sources revealed that the concerts were Obama campaign alum Stephanie Cutter’s idea and were supported by fellow Obama alum David Plouffe.
One source revealed to the Post that Harris-Walz campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon approved the go-out-to-vote concert idea and was criticised internally for it. She did not want to approve it and sit on the idea for weeks before giving it a green signal. Another source emphasised if that was the case then she led the campaign right to increased production costs because “putting [concerts] together last minute makes [them] cost twice as much.”
The second source criticized Dana Rosenzweig, the campaign operations chief, suggesting she should have flagged concerns earlier in the planning process. However, a third source defended her, arguing that the responsibility for managing the campaign budget fell more on the budget team, not Rosenzweig. The second source quipped, “They said they were ‘spending to zero.’ I guess they overshot zero.”

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/kamala-harris-burned-through-20-million-on-concerts-risking-unpaid-staff-and-vendors-101731127735828-amp.html

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Anonymous wrote:One BILLION was her budget? That's shameful to have spent that much money on any campaign, even if she won.

Colgate-Palmolive alone spent around $2.4 billion on advertising worldwide in 2023. Commercial advertising way exceeds political. Why are toothpaste ads more valid? Limiting money spends by campaigns typically hurts challengers and benefits incumbents. Trump, of course, has figured out how to get tons of free airtime with his antics.

Because they use their own money and campaigns beg for donations?