Posted on 12/15/2024 6:56:53 PM PST by DoodleBob
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday thanked deep-pocketed Democratic donors who raised record sums in last month's election loss to President-elect Donald Trump and urged them not to lose hope and to remain politically engaged.
Biden and Harris, along with their spouses, in remarks at the Democratic National Committee holiday reception sought to buck up key donors who the Democratic Party needs to stay committed as it tries to pick up the pieces. Republicans scored a decisive victory taking the White House and Senate while maintaining control of the House in an election where donors of all political stripes spent about $4.7 billion.
“We all get knocked down. My dad would say when you get knocked down, you just got to get up,” Biden said. “The measure of a person or a party is how fast they get back up.”
Harris, who stepped in as the party's presidential nominee after Biden ended his campaign in July following his disastrous debate performance, praised donors for putting their time — and checkbooks — into backing her and Democrats that they believed in.
Democrats, their allied super PACs and other groups raised about $2.9 billion, compared to about $1.8 billion for the Republicans. Harris noted that Democrats raised a whopping $700 million over just 700 events organized by the Democratic finance committee.
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$2,900,000,000.
Trump beats Harris.
Republicans will ultimately take control of the House by a margin of 220 to 215 — meaning Democrats picked up one seat.
Republicans poised to control 53 seats in the Senate.
The GOP is heading toward full control in Washington come January.
Was Kamala drunk this time?
Begged for money too, no doubt.
“URGE” in DEM SPEAK ==BEGGING IN OTHER’S LANGUAGES
When Madoff did this he went to jail.
They’re now enraged by Plouffe’s admission that Harris never led Trump in their internal campaign polling, despite public surveys showing her ahead. ‘Polls showed leads that we never had,’ Plouffe revealed.
‘They lied to us. It’s just a circus of lies,’ a donor erupted, complaining that Harris’ team regularly painted a much rosier picture when speaking to supporters who were signing big checks.
Harris blew through an unprecedented $1.5 billion in donor cash over the course of 15 weeks, losing control of the White House, Senate and failing to flip the House........assuring donors they needed cash to do this.
So Ilhan Omar’s 2019 remark to the media: “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” referring to her prejudice about alleged Jewish secret control of politics turned out to be wrong.
A lot more Benjamins went to the Dems than money donated by anyone to the GOP.
And the Dems still lost.
Dem donors: I always dreamed of wasting millions of my dollars donating it to a losing, sinking campaign. Now it came true.
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RE: you get knocked down, you just got to get up,” Biden said.
Donors who wasted millions of dollars each:
“How about this one? We punch and kick the two of you down leave it at that.”
It’s nice that Biden-Harris invited the donors to a holiday party. It’s the least they could do.
Was Clooney invited? Seems he’d be a lot of fun.
“urged them not to lose hope and to remain politically engaged” = “whatever you do, do NOT quit shoveling big bucks at us”
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