How Democrats used their vast resources has come under particular scrutiny after Harris’ presidential campaign raised — and spent — a stunning $1.4 billion in 107 days. The pace rattled supporters, donors and even some on the campaign, who complained of lavish spending on celebrities and ongoing appeals for money even after Harris lost the election.
The only reason why we found out about 2015 shenanigans was neoliberals tucking tail after trump won so Donna Brazile had a chance to see the books.
This is a huge chance to pry the party out of neoliberal hands, because Jamie Harrison is acting like most of Biden’s picks and resigning before things get difficult.
But there is zero fucking chance $1,700,000,000 was raised and spent in 107 days and there wasn’t any grifting going on. The purpose of Kamala’s campaign wasn’t to win an election, it was to churn a bunch of money so people could take their slices.
We can’t afford to do it a fourth time in a row.
Winning the election needs to be the priority of the party.
I said this in another thread - 1.7 billion in 107 days means spending $15,887,850 a day. Let’s be generous and assume a crazy 12 hour work day, 7 days a week.
That’s $1,323,987 an hour, every hour. 12 hours a day, for 107 days… with NOTHING to show for it.
It’s been Brewster’s Millions since 2016, and at this point the only thing crazier than the party trying it a fourth time is us letting the same people keep calling the shots.
They pick their candidate long before the primary, and before 10 states vote they declare a winner and say it’s over. If a Republican wins, it’s just not a big deal to them.
Because in four years they’ll get even more money to make sure a progressive can’t make it to the general
2020 was the worst, picking Biden after the 3rd primary, and that one being South Carolina…
Because we really want red states determining who the Democratic candidate is… 🙄
I agree with you on the money. It doesn’t make any sense to me. And everyone was a volunteer too? Like you said, how do you spend that much money in such a short amount of time, and then immediately roll over and say “oh well, we lost” like they have?
It’s not a freaking game of touch football. It’s the future of the country and everyone that lives in it.
Goodhart’s law strikes again.
They can’t tune their process for ‘win election’, because that’s only one sample every four years, and it’s a binary value.
So instead they tune it for ‘raise campaign funds’ as a proxy measure for ‘win election’, and that’s vastly more responsive; they can optimise the crap out of that.
This also means that a bunch of influential people are able to skim significant amounts off the top, so they’re not minded to change it. They’re stinking rich so they don’t have to care about the actual political outcome - and the more people are suffering, the more they’ll donate.
The trump win was a massive windfall for the next cycle of fundraising.
I remember they said the same thing about Clinton and how she burned through a billion dollars in her attempt to buy a nomination. In the end, Harris brought in a bunch of Clinton leeches to destroy her own campaign. The consultant class ate well this election cycle and they didn’t even have to run a campaign nearly as long.
In the end, Harris brought in a bunch of Clinton leeches to destroy her own campaign.
What?
“Clinton leeches” have been running the DNC for decades…
It’s not that they latched onto Kamala. It’s that they had already fixed the primary and attaching themselves to Kamala was a condition of them give Kamala the nomination.
Hillary’s people are Biden’s people, would have been Kamala’s people.
For 8 years a group of unelected now liberals have been deciding our candidate and running our campaigns.
And those people are fucking idiots
Anti-Status Quo candidates win in this era. That means Obama, Sanders (hypothetically), and Trump. Clinton Biden and Harris were status quo.
Seems like a good plan after not doing it the first time Trump won.
Useless welts.
What you need is more support for progressive candidates and fewer centrists.
