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The Harris campaign raised $1 billion in 100 days and somehow lost the election with $20 million in debt
Not the Bee ^ | Nov 7, 2024 | Commodore Vanderbilt

Posted on 11/07/2024 3:59:26 PM PST by george76

Kamala didn't need the insult added to the injury after Tuesday's election, but boy howdy, she's getting it:

Ok so this just got very explosive. A Kamala campaign staffer who saw these posts called me just now and said there is a massive scandal here worthy of an audit.

The $20 million debt thing is real. Rob Flaherty, this staffer said, is currently shopping around the Kamala fundraising email list to anyone who wants it to try to raise the money back. This includes other campaigns and outside groups.

Flaherty is the deputy campaign manager and reports to Jen O’Malley Dillon.

“Jen blew through a billion dollars in a few months and it was all Jen’s idea to do all the concerts.” — Kamala campaign adviser told me

This source added that O’Malley Dillon did these “concerts,” like Katy Perry, Lizzo, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen et cetera at the expense of “prioritizing and spending money on social media and other campaign priorities.”

Apparently a group in Georgia had to lay off 100 people because they couldn’t pay them.

It’s unclear at this time if the campaign PAID the talent to perform but the cost of production for the events was “immense.”

What’s more, this Kamala campaign staffer said several people who were working for the Kamala Harris for President campaign are still awaiting several overdue payments they were promised for their work. IE, they didn’t pay the staff.

This Kamala campaign staffer said to me of @jomalleydillon :

“People didn’t like working with her. Many people on the campaign felt like we lost because Kamala wasn’t allowed to run her campaign. They were running Joe Biden’s campaign instead of a Kamala campaign. Obnoxious and very much a gate keeper and interfering with the vice president’s people who were trying to do their job.” Quote Matthew Boyle @mboyle1 · 21h There needs to be an AUDIT of the Kamala campaign finances top to bottom — donors and supporters of hers must be furious. Where did the money go?

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it's common for political campaigns to go into debt. Hillary Clinton's failed 2008 presidential bid racked up $25 million in debt and only paid it off in 2013. And the 2012 Obama campaign still had millions of debt left over in 2015.

The difference is arguably in how much the campaign raised. Hillary's 2008 bid racked up about $230 million. In 2012 the Obama campaign raised a little over $700 million.

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And it's even crazier when you consider that the campaign raised that $1 billion in just over 100 days. Other campaigns have had months or years to drain their reserves and rack up the debt.

Kamala had one of the biggest campaigns in U.S. history, set all that money on fire, and still lost the election with millions in the red.

So what caused all that cash to up and vanish?

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[Kamala campaign manager] Jen [O'Malley Dillon] blew through a billion dollars in a few months and it was all Jen's idea to do all the concerts.'

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The campaign, meanwhile, is reportedly so broke that it's skipping out on some of its payments:

Apparently a group in Georgia had to lay off 100 people because they couldn't pay them. ...

What's more, this Kamala campaign staffer said several people who were working for the Kamala Harris for President campaign are still awaiting several overdue payments they were promised for their work. IE, they didn't pay the staff.

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In addition to her alleged money-no-object campaign, O'Malley Dillon was reportedly just not fun to work for.


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1 posted on 11/07/2024 3:59:26 PM PST by george76
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Rob Flaherty, this staffer said, is currently shopping around the Kamala fundraising email list to anyone who wants it to try to raise the money back. This includes other campaigns and outside groups.


The only asset they have is an email list.................................


2 posted on 11/07/2024 4:00:52 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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But the important thing is that all the right pockets were filled.


3 posted on 11/07/2024 4:01:54 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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Just watch...$20 million will look small as this story develops.


4 posted on 11/07/2024 4:01:59 PM PST by Starboard
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“Can’t Buy Me Love”...


5 posted on 11/07/2024 4:02:16 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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A lot of the speculation is that the campaign spent an absolute fortune on all the concerts with the big-name celebrities and musicians but they ended up being useless. An incredible waste of money.


6 posted on 11/07/2024 4:02:19 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Twitter and Elon Musk helped DJT save America.


7 posted on 11/07/2024 4:02:23 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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If there was ever a reason to never let a democrat handle our money again . . . . . . !


8 posted on 11/07/2024 4:03:18 PM PST by knarf (Candice Owens, Personmal advisor)
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I doubt that “the Big Guy” got his 10%.


9 posted on 11/07/2024 4:04:23 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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Well that’s kind of how Democrats run their cities and Washington so no surprise there


10 posted on 11/07/2024 4:04:37 PM PST by rdcbn1
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I’m sure that $20 million will never be paid back.


11 posted on 11/07/2024 4:04:37 PM PST by Antihero101607
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well DAMN! just think how she would have bankrupted the country by 20 billion.


12 posted on 11/07/2024 4:04:43 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First ges secnd" L.Star)
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Did the big guy get his cut?


13 posted on 11/07/2024 4:04:44 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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They had ads on every You Tube video.


14 posted on 11/07/2024 4:04:59 PM PST by alternatives?
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$1 billion 20 million that the left just threw in the toilet lol


15 posted on 11/07/2024 4:05:39 PM PST by Bob434
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How much was skimmed off?


16 posted on 11/07/2024 4:06:08 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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If you can’t handle your campaign’s finances correctly, there is zero chance you could handle the nation’s finances correctly.


17 posted on 11/07/2024 4:07:10 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Trump kicked Harrass...


18 posted on 11/07/2024 4:09:12 PM PST by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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When you were paying 8 million per
7 minute celebrity appearance like Beyonce and your entire campaign was a
celebrity invested pointless rally . The Money runs out real quick.
How much the Greedy nasty Oprah demand each time .
Those fake soulless amoral creatures are pricey .


19 posted on 11/07/2024 4:09:32 PM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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Talk about corruption and graft.


20 posted on 11/07/2024 4:09:48 PM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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