In terms of the fundraising race, the Democrat occasion is means behind Republicans. The DNC at the moment has about $13 million available whereas the RNC is sitting on a nest egg of about $84 million.
One of many issues that’s hurting the DNC is that they’re nonetheless struggling to assist repay the debt from the failed Kamala Harris marketing campaign. She spent greater than a billion {dollars} in a matter of months final fall and someway nonetheless got here up hundreds of thousands of {dollars} brief with nothing to indicate for it.
Harris has tried to assist the occasion with their fundraising efforts however for some unusual purpose, it’s simply not understanding.
FOX Information stories:
Kamala Harris fundraising occasions have been a flop to assist elevate cash for DNC: report
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ fundraising occasions for the Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC) have fallen brief, based on Axios, because the DNC has continued to repay the previous presidential nominee’s marketing campaign bills.
Harris allowed the DNC to make use of her e mail record to assist elevate funds, based on Axios. She has additionally reportedly held a number of small fundraising occasions.
“However the whole cash raised from the occasions has been disappointing,” Axios reported, citing individuals aware of the matter.
After Harris misplaced to President Donald Trump in 2024, prime Democrats expressed concern about potential marketing campaign debt.
“How do you elevate a historic sum of money and never win a single swing state?” one Harris aide informed Axios in November, following the election loss. “The sincere reply is: I don’t know. It appears we misplaced the nationwide narrative, and that’s what we have to diagnose.”
Along with this, people who find themselves donating to the DNC now, in all probability assume they’re giving cash to help new initiatives and candidates, not realizing that they’re simply serving to to pay down the Harris marketing campaign debt.
NYTIMES: Kamala Harris ended her failed $1.5 billion marketing campaign with $20 million in unpaid payments, which the DNC had secretly agreed to cowl. Since then, Harris has been elevating cash from donors with out disclosing the cash was really gong to repay her marketing campaign debt! pic.twitter.com/ivPKrrfGCM
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 25, 2025
Cash isn’t all the things in politics however the Democrats aren’t even liquid. They’re nonetheless paying off an election that occurred virtually a yr in the past. It’s a horrible place to be in at this stage of the sport.
