Democratic campaign guru James Carville says there is only one thing the party can do to win back the trust of donors who feel "burned" by the extravagant spending in 2024: "audit."
"The amount of money and the amount of lobbyists that were involved in this campaign is staggering," Carville said. "That’s $2.5 freaking billion dollars. Do you have any idea where that money went? Does anybody have any idea where that money went?"
"The Resistance is gonna have trouble raising money. These fundraisers are burnt. They’re really pissed now. And the damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done — to the Democratic brand is almost unfathomable," he said.
Carville said Thursday on the Politicon podcast.
JAMES CARVILLE: We know what it is, and we’re totally powerless.
"The Resistance" is gonna have trouble raising money. These fundraisers are burnt. They’re really pissed now. And the damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done — to the Democratic brand is almost unfathomable.
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Remember the scene in the movie, The Graduate, where he says "One word, son, one word. Plastics." You know, one word: Audit.
I have people that are contacting me to run for DNC Chair. I promise you, I’m not gonna get in the middle of that. And I don’t have a vote, I don’t have an opinion, no one cares. But I would say the policy number one is we’re gonna audit everything. We’re gonna audit the campaign. We’re gonna audit Future Forward. We’re gonna audit the DNC, so people can know.
I’m telling you, without complete transparency — the campaign we think raised a billion and a half dollars. We know that Future Forward, the last we heard was $900 million. So we can assume that they got to a billion before the election. That’s $2.5 freaking billion dollars. Do you have any idea where that money went? Does anybody have any idea where that money went?
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