Campaign filings have indicated that the Harris-Walz campaign took in at least $1 billion, and when combined with other aligned groups, the total was well over $1.6 billion. Notably, there is still another filing due for the month of October. Politico reported that the campaign was $20 million in the hole after Nov. 5.
âTheyâre $20 million or $18 million in debt. Itâs incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have friends I have to be accountable to and explain what happened because I told them it was a margin-of-error race.â
Campaign filings have indicated that the Harris-Walz campaign took in at least $1 billion, and when combined with other aligned groups, the total was well over $1.6 billion. Notably, there is still another filing due for the month of October. Politico reported that the campaign was $20 million in the hole after Nov. 5.
Li is far from the only Democrat pointing fingers. Across the board, Democrats have been stunned by the scale of the loss last Tuesday and engaged in a mix of soul-searching and blame-trading. Trump appears poised to have gained ground in every state except Washington since the 2020 election.
Some are blaming Biden or the Harris-Walz campaign strategy. In other instances, prominent progressives have wrestled with concerns about identity politics, backlash to wokeism, patronizing messaging, elitism and lack of an exciting agenda paved the way for Trumpâs victory.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), for instance, accused the party of abandoning working-class votes and becoming defenders of the status quo.
âIt should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,â Sanders wrote in a fiery takedown of the party last week.
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