President-elect Donald Trump appeared to troll Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign after reports said it was in debt for as much as $20 million, though she spent $1 billion in a losing effort.
“I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over,” Trump posted on X Saturday evening, the New York Post noted.
“Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others. Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do,” he continued, “We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was ‘Earned Media,’ and that doesn’t cost very much. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Harris far outraised Trump but in the end, a majority of voters sided with him, giving him a massive electoral college victory as well as the national vote.
Her election-eve concerts, which featured Jon Bon Jovi, Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga, incurred similar costs, and now staff and vendors are concerned they won’t be compensated.
The Harris campaign also spent a staggering six figures constructing a set for her appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, which drew only a fraction of the audience compared to Trump’s appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience.”
$1 million alone was given to Oprah Winfrey’s production studios Harpo Productions. Meanwhile, staffers told The Post that the lavish concerts took an outsized toll on the campaign’s finances.
“Money can’t buy you love or a good candidate,” Republican political strategist Brad Todd told The Washington Examiner.
CNN data guru Harry Enten was stunned by Trump’s massive victory over Harris as Republicans also managed to retake the Senate and are ahead in the party’s efforts to retain control of the House.
“Talk to me about how his support in this election compares to the past,” CNN anchor Kate Bolduan said to the analyst.
“You know, I think the breadth of the improvement that Donald Trump had — Holy Toledo!” Enten began.
“All right. Trump gained ground in 49 states and the District of Columbia compared to 2020. I went back to the record books. When was the last time a party gained in so many different places? You have to go all the way back to 1992, when Bill Clinton improved upon Michael Dukakis’s performance in 49 states, plus the District of Columbia,” he continued.
“The bottom line is, no matter where you look on the map, Kate Bolduan, no matter where you looked, Donald Trump was improving where he did four years ago except for Washington state. It is no wonder that at this particular point, he looks like he’s going to be the first Republican to win the popular vote since George W. Bush back in 2004,” the analyst said.
“And to pull that off, he gained ground where with groups that Republicans do not generally count as part of their winning coalition or really at all. How much ground did he gain?” Bolduan asked.
“Again — Holy Toledo! It’s just like, oh, my goodness gracious! These are the types of groups that you would never have thought that Donald Trump would have gained so much support among eight years ago when he first won against Hillary Clinton,” the analyst said.
“Trump scores the best GOP showing among 18- to 29-year-olds in 20 years. You have to go all the way back to 2004. How about among Black voters? It was the best performance for Republican candidate for president in 48 years since Gerald Ford back in 1976. And among Hispanic voters, the exit polls only go back since 1972, but Donald Trump’s performance on Tuesday was the best for a Republican presidential candidate in exit poll history,” Enten added.
