CV NEWS FEED // President-elect Donald Trump teased Democrats on social media Saturday morning after voters decisively rejected the party’s nominee Kamala Harris despite her campaign fundraising over a billion dollars.
“I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over,” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social.
“Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others,” he continued:
Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do. We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was “Earned Media,” and that doesn’t cost very much. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
The New York Times in early October reported that “Harris has raised $1 billion in less than three months as a presidential candidate, according to three people with knowledge of her fund-raising haul.”
“The $1 billion threshold is more than Mr. Trump has announced raising in all of 2024,” the Times added at the time.
On Wednesday, POLITICO’s Christopher Cadelago wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the Harris/Walz campaign “ended with at least $20 million in debt, per two sources familiar.”
“Harris raised over $1 billion and had $118 million in the bank as of Oct. 16,” according to Cadelago.
As of Saturday afternoon – over three days after media outlets called the 2024 election for Trump – the fundraising page on Harris’ website still appears to be active.
The page, headlined “OUR FIGHT CONTINUES,” states:
With a handful of key Senate and House races still too close to call, we are keeping our organizers and volunteers on the ground in those states to see the election across the finish line.
If you are able, please donate to the Harris Fight Fund today to ensure we have the resources to elect Democrats down the ticket ready to hold the Trump administration accountable.
>> 2024 ELECTION: TRUMP DEFEATS HARRIS IN A ROMP <<
In a Friday piece for The Washington Examiner, Gabe Kaminsky noted that the vast sum of money Harris raised “was ultimately no use.”
“The story of how Harris pocketed record sums while failing to gain support from voters will be studied by campaigns for decades to come,” wrote Kaminsky.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told the Examiner: “A billion dollars paled in comparison to the increased prices Americans were seeing across the country. Voters weren’t fooled.”
Writing for The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Jack Gillum and Anthony DeBarros stated:
Harris’s fundraising dominance, which her campaign had touted, wasn’t enough to overcome political headwinds, including shifts in demographic support and an economic malaise that left much of the electorate soured on the Biden administration in which she served.
