Lindy Lee, a member of the Democratic National Committee's finance committee, slammed Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign on the coal issue, calling it a “billion-dollar disaster” and criticizing President-elect Donald Trump. demanded accountability after the victory.
At one point during a TV appearance, Lee even dropped a bombshell, accusing the Democratic Party of “you” of President Biden's last-minute decision to resign. She claimed she and others had been misled about Harris' electoral chances.
“The truth is, this is just a disaster, a billion-dollar disaster,” Lee said candidly on Saturday's “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
“They're $20 million or $18 million in debt. It's unbelievable, but I raised millions of dollars of it. I'm responsible for what happened. I have friends to explain, because I said it was a race with a margin of error.”
According to campaign filings, the Harris-Waltz campaign raised at least $1 billioncombined with other cooperating groups, totaled well over $1.6 billion. Notably, there is still another submission deadline in October. Politico reported Since November 5th, the campaign has lost $20 million.
In the run-up to Election Day, Harris publicly identified herself as the “underdog” in the race, and her campaign repeatedly warned that it would be a tough race.
Biden, 81, withdrew from the race on July 21 amid a Democratic revolt sparked by a fumble performance in the debates. He immediately endorsed the 60-year-old Harris as standard bearer and secured the nomination within weeks with the support of party insiders.
Back in July, Lee defended Biden's praise of him.Collective action and the perfect leader'' on July 18th.Biden has the most He is the most successful president in my lifetime. She later said she was “shocked” by Biden's resignation. I noticed something “Flat relief” from donors he dropped out of.
On Saturday, Lee weighed in on Biden's fall from grace, suggesting it was his “to-you attitude” toward fellow Democrats that led to Harris' rapid support. Fox News censored her accidentally dropping the bombshell on air, and Ms. Lee subsequently restrained herself from using it again.
“In fact, I think it was a big ‘F you’ for the party that President Biden, 30 minutes after he left office, everyone endorsed her. “If you don't like me, deal with it because here's someone you don't like,” Lee said.
“It’s like sticking it on a guy.”
Last week, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is widely believed to have played a key role in ousting the octogenarian Catholic Democrat, similarly criticized the way Biden left office.
“If the president had withdrawn earlier, there might have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said.interviewa New York Times podcast. “There was an expectation that if the president left office, there would be a primary.”
Ms Lee fumed that she had been “misled” about Ms Harris' chances by senior officials, including campaign chairwoman Jen O'Malley Dillon.
“We were promised…Jen O'Malley Dillon promised us all that Harris would win,” she complained. “She even released a video saying Harris would win. I believed her, the donors believed her, so they wrote a big check. I feel like a lot of us were misled. Masu.”
O'Malley Dillon later sent a memo to staff reflecting on the loss.
“You were staring down unprecedented headwinds and obstacles over which we had little control. We knew this was going to be a race with a margin of error, and it was,” she said of her team. I wrote to.
“While the entire country moved to the right, there was the least movement in his direction in the battleground states compared to the rest of the country. It was the closest in the places we competed.”
Mr. Trump, 78, won the biggest election night of 2024 since 2016, sweeping all seven battleground states and garnering the largest popular vote for a Republican presidential candidate in U.S. history.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is mired in blame-shifting and widespread criticism over its crushing defeat.
Trump is scheduled to meet with Biden in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
