An official of the DNC Finance Committee calls Harris campaign a '$1 billion disaster'

An official of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) called Vice President Harris’s campaign for president a “$1 billion disaster” following President-elect Donald Trump’s substantial victory in the election this week. 

DNC National Finance Committee member Lindy Li said during an appearance on Fox and Friends this weekend that “The truth is this is just an epic disaster, this is a $1 billion disaster,” according to The Hill. 

“They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s 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,” she added.  

Li said that Harris’s campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, “promised all of us that Harris would win.” 

“She even put videos out saying Harris would win,” Li said on Saturday. “I believed her, my donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks. I just feel like a lot of us were misled.”

Li said that when she heard Democrats, on the night of the election, confident that Harris was winning, she did not fully understand what they were seeing to give them such confidence. 

“I asked them, ‘Are you privy to internal numbers that I am not seeing?’ Because I study this so carefully and I just wasn’t seeing any basis for that level of confidence,” she said.

Other reports this week, such as a report in the Washington Examiner, pointed to how much was spent on advertising, celebrities and concerts. 

The campaign and its affiliated committees spent more than $654 million on advertising from July 22 to Election Day, compared to Trump, who spent $378 million, or 57% less during that same period, according to the outlet. 

Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions received $1 million, while Oprah appeared at a town hall with Harris in September and at her final rally in Philadelphia before Election Day.