Democratic National Committee compliance manager Joyce DeCerce recently admitted that he thinks Vice President Kamala Harris cannot win in the November general election and that he and others have made empty promises to party donors.
The admission was recorded in a video published by James O’Keefe.
“[Harris] doesn’t have any accomplishments to speak of,” DeCerce can be heard saying. He also said that the vice president was “weirdly unpopular.”
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Democratic officials, activists, and donors put tremendous pressure on President Joe Biden to drop his re-election bid in the weeks following his disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump in late June. His exit from the race marked a humiliating end to a decades-long political career for the 81-year-old commander-in-chief.
Party officials and donors quickly rallied around Harris, essentially anointing her the presumptive Democratic nominee before the Democratic National Convention.
“DeCerce admits that the DNC’s engagement with donors is little more than a façade. He explains, ‘You just put on a performance for them, a little show, right?’ implying that the DNC merely tells donors what they want to hear in order to receive donations. He further claims that the DNC’s approach is to fuel donors’ fantasies with empty promises, emphasizing, ‘They want their fantasy to be, you know, fed,'” wrote O’Keefe on X.
O’Keefe’s media organization reached out to DNC CFO Kristin Hetherington for comment. She allegedly hung up on the group “in frustration” when confronted with DeCerce’s comments about how donors may have been misled about Harris’ chances at beating Trump.
An average of recent polls analyzed by FiveThirtyEight currently shows that the race is neck-and-neck, with independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. trailing behind at 5.6% support.