Democratic megadonor John Morgan appeared on CUOMO Monday night to discuss the failed Harris-Walz campaign, asserting that former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not want Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee to succeed President Joe Biden.
Biden stepped down from the presidential race in July under pressure from prominent Democratic figures, endorsing Harris within an hour. However, former President Obama took five days to offer his endorsement of Harris on his X page.
“He did not want to go gently,” Morgan said of Biden. “He nominated her, basically Obama did not want her. Obama did not endorse her for five days, Pelosi did not want her.” According to Morgan, Biden’s endorsement of Harris was an “F you” to Obama and Pelosi.
“I think it was to say, F you to Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and every representative that was pushing him out… and I think he was pissed,” Morgan told host Chris Cuomo.
“Pelosi told her California delegation, there will be a conference, there will be a caucus, there will be a convention,” Morgan said, which was mentioned several times during the recently concluded campaign by Republican politicians and commentators during the process. “We basically ran on this deal where ‘democracy, democracy!’ And then we didn’t have democracy in picking our nominee.”
Morgan, who acknowledged that he did not personally donate to Harris’s campaign, criticized how the campaign managed its funds, suggesting that it could jeopardize her future presidential prospects.
His criticism comes amid multiple reports that the Harris campaign is $20 million in debt following a lavish spending spree.
The megadonor stated that the alleged misused campaign funds should permanently disqualify her from running for president again. “The same thing is going to follow Harris for the rest of her career. She cannot be trusted with the money, and the donors are going to be, like, ‘Where is this money?’” he said.
Lindy Li, a member of the DNC finance committee, told NewsNation’s Rich McHugh that internal conflicts and financial confusion within the party led some staff members to leave entirely.
Li, who participated in a campaign call with Harris donors and staffers this week, described the vice president’s demeanor as “self-congratulatory,” even though she became the first Democratic Party presidential candidate to lose the popular vote since 2004.
“She actually held two calls, one for her top donors and one for grassroots. I was speaking and texting with fellow attendees in the call, and we were amazed by how self-congratulatory the tone was …. The call was about 20, 30 minutes,” Li said. “I don’t recall anyone taking responsibility for the fact that we spent about $2 billion across the super PAC and the campaign and came up so significantly short. We lost seven swing states.”
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During the call, Li stated that Harris was recognized as a “visionary leader.” The DNC official added, “I believe at one moment during the call she was talking about her Thanksgiving recipe. I don’t say this with any malice or anything. I’m just merely conveying what happened. I think I was stunned to hear that, given just the extent and brutality of the loss, and the fact that DNC staffers, two-thirds, at least two-thirds, have been fired summarily, and a lot of them are at a loss as to what to do.”
In conclusion, Li said that the party lacks direction after the election. “I’m just frankly stunned that there was no sort of postmortem or an analysis of how we can do better, what sort of lessons were learned. It was really just patting each other on the back, congratulating each other on I’m not sure what, and saying we’ll see you for Christmas.”
