Harris campaign is 'self-congratulatory': DNC committee member

(NewsNation) — A DNC concern committee subordinate said the Harris run was "self-congratulatory" during a telephone with apical donors Tuesday, making nary notation of what the enactment could person done better. 

Lindy Li, a subordinate of the DNC concern committee, told NewsNation she was “stunned that determination was nary benignant of postmortem oregon investigation of the disastrous campaign." 

“It was conscionable patting each different connected the back,” Li said. “They praised Harris arsenic a visionary leader, and astatine 1 infinitesimal during the call, she was talking astir her Thanksgiving recipe.”

The Harris run appears to have imploded pursuing her Election Day nonaccomplishment to President-elect Donald Trump, and the interior strife has led immoderate staffers to permission altogether.

The run is now $20 cardinal successful debt, per a root acquainted with the campaign.

Li, connected behalf of confused voters and disappointed donors, has been speaking retired astir the party’s fiscal woes and frustrations.

She called enactment leaders “detached from reality” aft they discussed however much than $1 cardinal was spent during the astir 110-day run during an interrogation with “Pod Save America” Tuesday. 

“They failed to notation that hundreds of millions of dollars went to them and their friends close done these consulting firms. These consultants were the superior beneficiaries of the Harris campaign, not the American people," Li said.

Li said the galore successful the interior workings of the enactment stock akin frustrations successful the aftermath of the election. 

The Harris run tin inactive rise wealth to recoup immoderate of these debts and wage those who inactive request it. 

According to the Federal Election Commission, immoderate House and Senate campaigns extremity with outstanding debts, specified arsenic those owed to run vendors.

Roll Call, successful March 2023, reported that 18 members of the House and Senate started the twelvemonth with run committees with astatine slightest $100,000 successful unpaid bills.

“If they [the DNC] don't person an mentation arsenic to what happened with the billions of dollars and wherefore hundreds of millions went to consultants, crystal cream, backstage jets, celebrities, I don't deliberation donors are going to beryllium consenting to springiness again,” Li said.