The Harris Victory Fund, a fundraising committee authorized by Vice President Kamala Harris’s election campaign, allowed some donation funds to be allocated toward a “recount account,” according to fine print included on the website.
The fundraising site was created using the Democratic fundraising tool ActBlue, which lists information about how it would use donation money under its “contribution rules.” Those rules list three different areas where funds would be appropriated.
“The first $41,300/$15,000 from a person/multicandidate committee (‘PAC’) will be allocated to the DNC,” the site reads. “The next $3,300/$5,000 from a person/PAC will be allocated to Harris for President’s Recount Account.”
Additional money would be “split equally among the Democratic state parties,” it reads. The site also acknowledges “the allocation formula above may change if following it would result in an excessive contribution.”
A representative for the Harris campaign did not immediately respond when asked by The National News Desk if the vice president is weighing a recount effort in the election which saw her decisively defeated by President-elect Donald Trump. The vice president last week conceded the election in a speech at Howard University.
“I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now, I get it,” she said. “But we must accept the results of this election.”
Though Harris was not elected by Americans, calls are growing for President Joe Biden to resign and allow her to take the Oval Office before Trump’s inauguration. Jamal Simmons, Harris’s former communications director, said Sunday a resignation would allow Biden to fulfill his promise of being a “transnational figure.”
“It would dominate the news at a point where – Democrats have to learn drama and transparency and doing things that the public would wanna see is the time, this is the moment for us to change the entire perspective of how Democrats operate,” Simmons said.
The Harris campaign is reportedly approximately $20 million in debt after outspending the Trump team. Armstrong Williams, Washington insider and co-owner of The Baltimore Sun, told TNND the spending fell flat with voters.
“Donald Trump had a message, Vice President Harris had the money,” he said. “You can have all the money in the world, but if you don’t have the right message with voters who feel their life is lessening every day, you’re just not going to win.”
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