Harris campaign's spending comes under scrutiny
Vice President Harris’s campaign is seeing growing scrutiny over its spending strategy as Democrats continue to reckon with her devastating loss to President-elect Trump.
Harris’s campaign blew through more than $1 billion in spending, and her team was reportedly left $20 million in the red after the election — though her campaign has vowed there will be no debt listed on the next campaign finance filings.
While Democrats acknowledge Harris faced an uphill climb given President Biden’s late exit from the race in July, her loss of all seven swing states and the popular vote to Trump has prompted the party look inward for answers.
“Everybody fell short,” said James Zogby, a longtime member of the Democratic National Committee.
Zogby explained that if you’re going to be sending out emails asking members of the party for money, “then we ought to be able to say to people, ‘and here's what we did with it.’”
Recent reports have placed a greater spotlight on the Harris campaign’s spending and debt as the party reels from a decisive defeat in the presidential race.
Some members of the party have questioned the campaign’s tactics, including spending money on production costs associated........
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