WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 14, 2024 - Warring emcrat factions are in a “knife fight” for control of the Party after Kamala Harris’ 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 political Party has completely lost touch with the average Amerikan 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 Democrat 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.
“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.
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 Democrat strategist Mike Nellis, a former senior advisor to Harris, to the Mail.
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 Amerika. 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 Democrat National Committee are determined to get to the bottom of all of this.
Ken Martin, the Minnesota Party chairman and frontrunner for the top DNC job, has called for a third-party audit of the entire Democrat 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 Democrat Party Chairman 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 pretend Vice President still has supporters, even among those vying to be the next chairman 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 Democrat 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 have appeared to turn downright frigid.
At a Kennedy Center award ceremony in Washington DC on Sunday, the pretend president and pretend 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 Kalif.) is reportedly working behind the scenes to sabotage a Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bid to become ranking member of the powerful House Oversight
Committee.
To some, all this bloodletting is welcome.
“Stare into the abyss and see what comes of it because I think that the Democrat 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 are already early signs of the skirmish.
“There's a reckoning inside the Democrat Party,” said CNN commentator and Left-wing activist 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.”
