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EXCLUSIVE   Insiders reveal how the Democratic Party is locked in a nasty 'knife fight' as top politicians seek revenge for Kamala's $1.5 billion 'circus of lies'

 

By Charlie Spiering 

Daily Mail

Dec 14, 2024

Warring Democratic factions are in a 'knife fight' for control of the Party after Kamala Harris 's humiliating election loss, say political insiders.

 

Warring Democratic factions are in a 'knife fight' for control of the Party after Kamala Harris's humiliating election loss, say political insiders.

The battle lines are now drawn between West Coast liberals, Bernie Sanders-socialists and moderate technocrats in the Midwest, who insist the party has completely lost touch with the average American voter.

But first, there is one thing that all sides seemingly agree on: The current political establishment must be chased out of national politics for good.

A reckoning is coming.

'The people that are responsible for this s**tshow are the Obama people. They're just grifters,' a well-connected Democratic donor exclusively told Daily Mail.

He singled out Jen O'Malley Dillon, who went from Biden 2024 campaign chair to serve in the same role for Harris's camp, and David Plouffe, an ex-Obama 2008 campaign manager turned top Kamala adviser.

Deep-pocketed lefty patrons are enraged by Plouffe's post-election admission that Harris never led Trump in their internal campaign polling, despite public surveys showing her ahead.

'[Polls] came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw,' Plouffe revealed late last month on the Democrat-friendly podcast 'Pod Save America.'

 

 

Lefty patrons are enraged by Plouffe's (above) post-election admission that Harris never led Trump in their internal campaign polling, despite public surveys showing her ahead. 

 

'They lied to us. It's just a circus of lies,' the donor erupted, complaining that Harris' team regularly painted a much rosier picture when speaking to supporters who were signing big checks.

Particularly appalling to these critics is that Harris' campaign also managed to blow through an unprecedented $1.5 billion in donor cash over the course of 15 weeks – and with barely anything to show for it, losing control of the White House, Senate and failing to flip the House of Representatives.

The campaign, for instance, spent nearly $1 million to light up the 366-foot-high, 516-foot-wide LED screen wrapping around The Sphere arena in Las Vegas.

The strip landmark played a 90-second Harris campaign ad for a week.

'$900,000 to put her face on The Sphere in Las Vegas! The ego!' griped Democrat mega-donor and trial attorney John Morgan last month. He describes himself as a 'Joe Biden Democrat.'

Other examples of alleged profligate spending included $2.5 million on the production costs for an Oprah Winfrey town hall event in September.

And there were purported donations totaling $500,000 paid to the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network charity (Harris was later treated to a softball interview on Sharpton's MSNBC show).

'People are pissed, and they are rightfully pissed,' fumed Democratic strategist Mike Nellis, a former senior advisor to Harris, to the Mail. 

MSNBC host Al Sharpton's National Action Network received $500,000 from Kamala Harris' campaign shortly before he interviewed her

Kamala Harris has come under fire for allegedly profligate spending, including $2.5 million on an Oprah Winfrey-produced town hall

Kamala also spent a reported $900,000 for a running weeklong ad on the Las Vegas Sphere 

 

Donors like John Morgan are seriously suspicious.

'There's a lot of whispers. There's a lot of names about who got paid this, who got paid that, and a lot of people got rich on the back of donors trying to stop Trump,' he said.

Of Harris, he concluded, 'I think this disqualifies her forever. Forever.'

'If you can't run a campaign, you can't run America... The same thing is going to follow Harris for the rest of her career. She cannot be trusted with the money.'

Certainly, those vying to be the next boss of the Democratic National Committee are determined to get to the bottom of all of this.

Ken Martin, the Minnesota Party chair and frontrunner for the top DNC job, has called for a third-party audit of the entire Democratic party infrastructure.

'I think you're looking at everything. It's not just contracts and consultants, it's not just ad spends and media buys, it's A through Z,' he told MSNBC this week.

Another DNC chair hopeful, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler agrees: 'There needs to be a full review, a full and formal evaluation of this last cycle — the good, the bad and the ugly.'

Regardless, Harris insists she is not going anywhere and has, according to reports, been 'instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open.'

The VP still has supporters, even among those vying to be the next chair of the DNC.

Consultants speaking to the Mail described her four-month race as 'near perfect' and 'nearly flawless,' despite the result. If given more time, they say, Harris could bounce back in a future bid.

'Kamala Harris, whether she knows it or not, is the face of the party, if she wants to be,' said Democratic strategist Michael Trujillo. 'The day after Trump is sworn in she could announce her run for president in 2028.'

They blame Biden for staying in the race too long and not giving Harris enough time to get a campaign off the ground.

Indeed, relations between the Harrises and Bidens has appeared to turn downright frigid.

At a Kennedy Center award ceremony in Washington DC on Sunday, the president and first lady were seated next to the second couple, yet they didn't acknowledge their presence or even look in their direction.

Things are getting ugly.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly working behind the scenes to sabotage on Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bid to become ranking member of the powerful House Oversight Committee.

Former Chicago mayor and outgoing ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has in recent weeks been vocal in slamming his party for its elitism, focusing too much on woke notions and special interests instead of the average American.

'Here's what I would say to the Democrats: You have a YETI cup? Sit down and shut up,' said Emmanuel this month.

 

'Here's what I would say to the Democrats: You have a YETI cup? Sit down and shut up,' said Emmanuel (above). 

 

California Governor Gavin Newsom threw a shovelful of dirt on Biden's political grave after the president's pardon of his son Hunter despite vowing that he would not.

'I took the president at his word,' Newsom said last week. 'So by definition, I'm disappointed and can't support the decision.'

And even Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has gotten in on the action.

He triggered an angry response from establishment Democrats almost immediately after the election, when he lamented Harris's 'disastrous campaign' for 'abandoning' the working class.

To some, all this bloodletting is welcome.

'Stare into the abyss and see what comes of it because I think that the Democratic Party does a poor job of having tough internal conversations about what went right and what went wrong,' said former Harris adviser Nellis.

But it's what comes next that's most critical – and there already early signs of the skirmish.

'There's a reckoning inside the Democratic Party,' said CNN commentator and left-wing activists Van Jones. 'Kamala Harris promised us freedom… well, she delivered it to us, because now we're free from having to run anything in Washington, DC.'