Knives out for Kamala Harris as defeated campaign begs for money: Insiders tear into 'appalling' cash plea after failure of celeb endorsements

The knives are retired for Kamala Harris arsenic donors and run unit question however she could rise $1 billion, stroke the election, and wind-up millions of dollars successful indebtedness successful the aftermath.

The vice president remains hidden down closed doors for the 2nd time successful a enactment with nary nationalist events connected her schedule.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is dealing with the fallout from her run debt, reported to beryllium up to $20 million, and disquieted it whitethorn outgo them successful 2 years erstwhile they're begging donors for wealth for the midterm elections.

Donors are furious and demanding answers connected wherever their wealth went. They are besides questioning wherefore the run held seven-figure personage events successful its closing days, and are complaining astir the deficiency of transparency astir spending decisions.

Fundraising continues agelong aft voters had their accidental and elected Donald Trump, and determination is nary program to extremity emails and texts anytime soon.

Even Harris' run unit is furious astir the situation.

One elder run authoritative told NBC News that the information supporters are inactive being asked for wealth – adjacent aft Harris mislaid - is 'appalling.' Another called it 'disgusting.'

Harris raised an historical magnitude successful her abbreviated statesmanlike campaign: $1.4 billion.

Her biggest disbursal was advertising, astir $654 billion, according to AdImpact, a institution that provides advertizing quality and information solutions.

But filings with the Federal Election Commission amusement her squad besides spent $20 cardinal connected concerts and personage appearances successful the last days earlier the election.

Those events included Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Jon Bon Jovi, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry, Megan thee Stallion, and Cardi B.

There was besides $12 cardinal spent connected integer media consultants – to link the run with societal media influencers - and six figures spent connected gathering a acceptable for Harris's quality connected Alex Cooper's fashionable Call Her Daddy podcast.'

Then determination was the $1 cardinal fixed to Harpo Studios for productions costs tied to an Oprah Winfrey interrogation with Harris successful October.

None of the celebrities were paid straight for their clip but the accumulation costs and question expenses astir their appearances rapidly added up.

Meanwhile, the texts and emails asking for wealth support going out.

Campaigns often extremity successful debt. That's not unusual. If Harris had finished with wealth successful the bank, donors would person asked wherefore each cent wasn't spent trying to decision Trump.

Even Barack Obama's past statesmanlike run ended with astir $6 cardinal successful debt. But Obama won. And helium hadn't raised a cardinal dollars.

'How bash you rise a historical magnitude of wealth and not triumph a azygous plaything state?' 1 Harris adjutant told Axios. 'The honorable reply is: I don't know.'

And the indebtedness whitethorn beryllium bigger than known. Harris' finances stay shrouded successful mystery. No 1 tin accidental who was successful complaint oregon wherever each the wealth went oregon however galore bills person yet to beryllium paid.

It's portion of the unit in-fighting that plagued her campaign. Harris became the de facto nominee successful July aft Joe Biden dropped retired and endorsed her. She was fixed his run staff, brought successful immoderate Obama radical and tried to propulsion her ain radical into the premix too.

These aggregate stakeholders fought, made differing decisions and past blamed everyone other erstwhile Harris lost.

Meanwhile, invoices and bills from the run way are inactive flooding in. The afloat fiscal representation of Harris' costs and debts whitethorn not beryllium known until aboriginal adjacent year.

'I consciousness misled,' 1 Democrat who often talks to donors told NBC.

Harris did person fundraising emails acceptable to spell post-election – successful the lawsuit of a recount oregon ineligible challenges. But not to wage disconnected millions successful debt.

Campaign unit remains successful daze astir the nonaccomplishment and is inactive processing precisely what went wrong. Because, successful summation to beryllium kept successful the acheronian astir finances, galore staff, donors and enactment officials consciousness similar they were misled connected the campaign's interior polling.

In the days starring up to the election, Harris' squad was arguing they were winning and could perchance instrumentality each battleground state.

She mislaid each 7 to Trump and the predetermination was not adjacent close.

'I ever knew we could lose,' a elder staffer told NBC News. 'I was ne'er prepared for america to suffer the nighttime of the election.'

Additionally, galore staffers recovered retired astir the campaign's indebtedness erstwhile it was learned that 3rd parties were funny successful purchasing the campaign's email list, meaning millions of people's information could extremity up successful the hands of tele-marketers.

Selling lists is simply a mode to rapidly rise money.

Two Harris run officials told NBC News the email database is not for sale.

But the adjacent bigger interest is however this could impact fundraising for the 2026 midterm elections erstwhile Democrats volition beryllium trying to triumph backmost power of the House and Senate.

Lindy Li, a subordinate of the DNC concern committee, has been a fierce professional of Harris' spending.

She told NewsNation she was told by the run that this was an 'eminently winnable race.'

'We mislaid each the plaything states. We mislaid successful each region successful America,' Li said. 'This is conscionable astounding. This is not immoderate similar blip. This is an avalanche.'

Party enactment successful the Democratic National Committee is 'absolutely successful turmoil,' Li said.

'People are stepping down,' Li said. 'And determination are going to beryllium elections.'

Even Donald Trump has expressed sympathy astir the situation.

'I americium precise amazed that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant combat successful the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a grounds magnitude of money, didn't person tons of %text#8217;s near over. Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others. Whatever we tin bash to assistance them during this hard period, I would powerfully urge we, arsenic a Party and for the involvement of desperately needed UNITY, do. We person a batch of wealth near over,' helium wrote connected societal media.