Democratic National Committee’s Women’s co-chair Lindy Li tore into Joe Biden for “coronating” Kamala Harris by endorsing her simply half-hour after dropping out of the race. During her Saturday look on Fox & Friends Weekend, the Harris surrogate dubbed the vice chairman’s marketing campaign a “$1 billion catastrophe.”
DNC’s Lindy Li rips Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Obamas
“The reality is that is simply an finish epic catastrophe. This is a $1 billion catastrophe,” Li mentioned of the Harris marketing campaign, including, “They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s unimaginable, and I raised tens of millions of that. I’ve associates I’ve to be accountable to and clarify what occurred as a result of I advised them it was a margin-of-error race.”
Calling for accountability on their half, the 33-year-old contended that she, together with different Democratic officers, had been “misled.” Li revealed that marketing campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon had promised the staffers, together with her, that the vice chairman would win the election.
“She even put movies out saying Harris would win,” Li mentioned of Dillon. “I believed her, my donors believed her, and they also wrote large checks. I simply really feel like a whole lot of us had been misled.” The DNC finance committee member additional known as out Biden for pushing Harris to exchange him within the race.
Li identified that if Donald Trump was as huge a risk to America because the Dems claimed all through their marketing campaign, they need to have had a technique of voting on Biden’s successor “as a substitute of simply coronating someone.”
“I really suppose President Biden, the entire endorsing her half-hour after he dropped out, I feel that was an enormous, ‘F you’ to the occasion. ‘If you don’t need me, right here’s someone chances are you’ll not like, take care of it,’” she fumed.
She additional criticised the Obamas for delaying their endorsements of Harris. “I need to level out they waited three days – Michelle and Barack Obama waited three days to endorse Kamala Harris. It was the silence heard around the world,” Li mentioned.