President-elect Trump has repeatedly said he wants to unite the country during his second term in office. On Saturday, he said he had a new idea to do just that, paying off the Democratic Party's debt.
The Harris-Waltz campaign is reportedly $20 million in debt, has raised more than $1 billion and has $118 million in the bank as of Oct. 16, according to Politico's Christopher Cadelago. is said to remain.
In the name of unity, or in the name of spectacular vandalism, President Trump is insisting that the nation come together to bail out his vice president's campaign.
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President-elect Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris (Fox News)
“I am extremely surprised that the Democratic Party, which fought hard and bravely in the 2020 presidential election and raised record amounts of money, has so little money left over,” Trump wrote on social media. Media platform Truth.
“Right now they are being squeezed by traders and others. Anything we can do to help them in this difficult time, as a party and for the unity that is sorely needed. I strongly recommend that you do so.”
“Our biggest asset in this campaign is 'earned media,' which doesn't cost that much, so we have a lot of money left over. Let's Make America Great Again!”
Earned media is essentially free media coverage, and Trump said he received a wealth of coverage throughout his historic campaign. Trump's earned media came in the form of viral social media posts, giving free interviews and hosting dozens of rallies that generated their own news stories and headlines.
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Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in early October, and her campaign reportedly spent six figures building the set for her appearance. (Call Her Daddy YouTube Channel)
People are wondering how the Harris-Waltz campaign was able to spend so much money and yet suffer such a crushing defeat against the former president, who had won all the battleground states and the popular vote in a landslide. is rising. Fox News Digital reached out to Harris Walz's campaign to confirm the $20 million figure, but did not receive a response.
The Washington Examiner released a report Friday detailing how the Harris campaign spent its $1 billion war chest, but one particular expenditure raised some eyebrows.
“Harris' campaign spent six figures building a set for her appearance on the popular podcast Call Her Daddy with host Alex Cooper,” the Examiner wrote. “The interview was released in October and was reportedly filmed in a hotel room in Washington, D.C.”
However, this episode failed to reach 1 million viewers. The video has been viewed 822,000 times since it was uploaded on October 6th, but President Trump's appearance on “Logan” on October 25th has received far more than 47 million views on YouTube. There is.
Harris campaign fundraiser Lindy Lee told “Fox & Friends Weekend” that the campaign ended in “an epic disaster.”
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Trump appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast on Oct. 6, which has garnered more than 47 million views on YouTube. (Screenshot/Joe Rogan Experience)
“The truth is, this is just an epic disaster. This is a billion-dollar disaster,” Lee declared Saturday morning, summing up the Harris campaign's results.
DNC members said they raised campaign funds with the understanding that the election was a “margin of error race.”
“I raised those millions of dollars. I have friends who have to take responsibility and explain what happened because they said it was a race with a margin of error. I was promised, (Harris campaign chair) Jen O'Malley Dillon promised everything.'' We believed Harris would win, and donors believed in her and wrote her big checks. ”
FOX News' Gabriel Hayes and Alexander Hall contributed to this report.
