Kamala Harris spent $1.5 billion on her failed presidential campaign, hemorrhaging on average $100 million per week — proving that she and her claque are as bad at managing money as they are at generating coherent policy ideas.
The big-ticket items:
- $900,000 to advertise on the outside screen of the Las Vegas Sphere (Harris ended up losing Nevada).
- A cool million to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions for Harris’ splashy townhall event with the media queen.
- Ten million for a series of Gen X-bait conferences with the likes of Jon Bon Jovi (Harris ended up losing Gen X).
- $494 million on overall advertising — half a billion bucks.
Heck, Kamala was so desperate to seem like she had something to say she paid big names to talk to her.
Her campaign handed over $500,000 to race-war enthusiast Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network ahead of her sitdown with him on MSNBC — a move that stinks to high heaven and should (though it won’t) utterly wreck the rep of the American answer to Pravda.
And she paid another sketchy news personality, Roland Martin (who’s alleged to have helped leak a townhall question to Hillary Clinton’s camp in 2016), some $350,000 via his Nu Vision Media ahead of her sitdown on his streaming show.
The Washington Free Beacon revealed the Sharpton payments; many of these other details come from a gloomy New York Times report on the Harris disaster.
Days late and $1.5 billion short, but still: America’s lucky the Gray Lady didn’t do more to vet Kamala before her ascent, otherwise Trump might have faced a genuine threat.
But the big spend on bribing Sharpton for a sitdown and Winfrey to borrow her effortless mass appeal and Bon Jovi to buy cultural cred and on and on and on reveals one of the central problems with Harris’ campaign.
It was hollow and fake from the start.
Right down to the creepy, Stalinist rallying cry of “Joy” taken up by eager lapdogs at the Times and elsewhere.
Trump was clearly the one having fun, zipping around the country, doing his trademark shuffle and letting fly one-liners as Harris stumbled and fumbled and mumbled and her army of enforcers on social media and in the press screeched about how amazing and wonderful and perfect she was.
And despite having every major media organization pulling for her, she just didn’t have what it takes.
Either in personality or policy.
Money matters plenty in campaigns, but it can’t make up for having no real message and a candidate with zero credibility.
Worse yet for the Democratic Party’s future, it may just have taught its donors to think twice before giving a dime to an apparatus that burns cash so incredibly cluelessly.
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