A surrogate for Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign against now-President-elect Donald Trump told \u201cFox & Friends Weekend\u201d on Saturday that she was \u201cmisled\u201d by top officials and that the overall effort by the vice president was an \u201cepic disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lindy Li, who said she raised \u201cmillions\u201d for Harris, explained to co-host Will Cain that Harris campaign officials made a series of false promises and repeatedly claimed that the internal data showed the vice president would handily defeat Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is just an epic disaster. This is a one-billion-dollar disaster,\u201d Li said, referencing how the losing Harris campaign blew through $1 billion in fundraising and ended up with millions of dollars in debt.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have friends that I have to be accountable to and to explain what happened because I told them it was a margin of error race,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Li stated that Harris campaign chair Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon assured all Harris surrogates that the vice president would win, even going so far as to produce videos to reinforce the message. \u201cI believed her. My daughters believed her. And so, they wrote massive checks,\u201d Li told the Fox News co-host. \u201cI feel like a lot of us were misled.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also told Cain earlier in the interview that the \u201cbackstabbing\u201d between Biden and Harris began long before the vice president replaced him on the 2024 ticket.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a lot of backstabbing we saw in the press; people were leaking stuff all the time. The White House was leaking like a sieve when it came to Kamala Harris,\u201d said Li.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the final years she was able to stabilize and stop the bleeding of her staff because there was a lot of turnover as well. And we saw the press report about that. And things have finally started to calm down,\u201d she said, going on to add that President Joe Biden\u2019s rapid endorsement of his VP was in response to his anger at the Democratic machine for forcing him out.<\/p>\n
\u201cKamala Harris wasn\u2019t at the top of the ticket,\u201d Li said. \u201cBiden\u2019s endorsement of Harris caught a lot of people off guard. Even the chief Dems of the party.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI really think it was a big fu\u2014 a big \u2018F you,\u2019 I\u2019m so sorry,\u201d she said to Cain, catching herself before finishing the statement. She also said that there was constant friction between the Biden and Harris camps.<\/p>\n
Finger-pointing has also erupted over the Harris campaign\u2019s decision to spend up to $20 million on swing-state concerts Monday night, just hours before the VP\u2019s crushing election loss to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
According to the New York Post, the spending has sparked concerns that everyday staff and vendors may not get paid, as reports indicate the campaign is in debt by the same amount. If they get stiffed, Harris\u2019 campaign could likely face legal action, especially from vendors who want what\u2019s owed them.<\/p>\n
Members of the defeated Harris team told The Post that the concerts had a damaging impact on the campaign\u2019s finances, and this was no secret. One planned performance by \u201990s alt-rock icon Alanis Morissette was even canceled to save money.<\/p>\n
The seven swing-state concerts held on election eve featured performances by Jon Bon Jovi in Detroit, Christina Aguilera in Las Vegas, Katy Perry in Pittsburgh, and Lady Gaga in Philadelphia, with 2 Chainz joining Harris for an eighth concert in Atlanta on November 2, just three days before the election, the outlet said.<\/p>\n
Two sources revealed that Stephanie Cutter, a veteran of the Obama campaign, championed the concert concept as a strategy to mobilize lower-propensity voters to the polls.<\/p>\n
While the performers volunteered their time and talent, the events still required a significant commitment of manpower and financial resources.<\/p>\n
According to a source who spoke to The Post, David Plouffe, a fellow Obama alum, supported Cutter\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure vendors will start to get upset soon,\u201d another source added, noting that staff payments do not seem to be impacted so far, even as reimbursements are still pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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