Democratic National Committee (DNC) executive Lindy Lee said that after Vice President Harris lost to President-elect Trump in the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Harris' candidacy for the White House was a “billion dollar bid.” “It's a disaster,” he said.
“The truth is, this is just a disaster, this is a billion-dollar disaster,” Lee, a member of the DNC National Finance Committee, said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends Weekend” Saturday morning. spoke.
“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,” she added.
The strategist said Harris' campaign chairwoman Jen O'Malley Dillon “promised all of us that Harris would win.”
“She even released a video saying Harris would win,” Lee said Saturday. “I believed in her, and my donors believed in her, so they wrote a big check. I feel like a lot of us were misunderstood.”
Trump's landslide victory in Wednesday's election has sparked a clash between Democrats over who should be held responsible for the party's strategy and the outcome. While some argue the party has moved far enough to the left to satisfy its base, centrists argue the party has moved too far to the left and scared away more moderate supporters in battleground states. . Harris lost all seven battleground states.
Some within the party argue that Democrats should start fresh, focus more on messaging and start better gauging voters' temperature.
Even on election night, Lee said he heard Democrats expressing confidence in Harris' hopes of winning the election, something Lee himself didn't fully understand.
“I asked them, 'Do you know any internal numbers that I'm not looking at?' Because I study this very carefully and there's no basis for that level of confidence. Because I couldn’t find any,” she said.
