Vice President Kamala Harris‘s presidential campaign is still sending multiple emails per day pleading with supporters for funds, more than three weeks after Election Day.
The emails, the most recent being from Tuesday night, use a variety of tactics to rake in donations, ranging from shaming supporters for allegedly emboldening President-elect Donald Trump to claiming that the funds will be used to fund recounts, even though control of the White House and Congress has already been called by organizations like the Associated Press. Harris’s deluge of fundraising emails comes amid news that her campaign managed to spend $1.5 billion over just 15 weeks and that it ended the election cycle with at least $20 million in debt.
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“Can we count on you to contribute $50, or whatever feels right to you, to support the Harris Fight Fund program to make sure we count every vote in these final races and hold Trump accountable?” one recent fundraising appeal reads. ”Over the past few weeks, we have been in the states helping finish out recounts and making sure that every vote is counted.But the reality is, we need to see another surge of donations to allow us to continue building the foundation of resources needed to hold Trump accountable these next four years,” another states.
Though the Harris campaign incentivizes donations with promised recounts, only a slim margin of the overall contributions are going to something called “Harris for President’s Recount Account.” Even though the account bears that name, there is nothing legally compelling the campaign to use those funds on recount efforts as opposed to paying off debt, for instance. The lion’s share of funds contributed to the “Harris Fight Fund” will actually flow to the DNC and the Democratic Party’s state-level affiliates, according to the fine print of the donation webpage.
The DNC could launch a recount effort in support of Democratic federal candidates but they are by no means required to spend funds raised by the Harris Fight Fund to do so, according to the Federal Election Commission. If Harris ends up with surplus funds in her campaign account, she could use it to finance a 2028 presidential campaign. Harris has reportedly told allies that she is mulling another run for the White House.
“I just have to remind you, don’t you ever let anyone take your power from you,” Harris said in a video posted to the Democratic Party’s X account on Tuesday. “You have the same power that you did before Nov. 5.”
Some X users poked fun at the vice president by suggesting that she was drunk at the time the video was recorded.
“We need to see another surge of donations to allow us to continue building the foundation of resources needed to hold Trump accountable these next four years,” a Harris campaign fundraising email sent on Tuesday reads. Multiple appeals containing warnings about Trump’s cabinet picks, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
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The people behind the emails appear somewhat self-aware, as one of the campaign’s post-election emails states, “You probably didn’t think you were going to end your day by giving a donation to support the Harris Fight Fund program.”
The Harris campaign did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
