The Democratic Party in the United States has still not recovered from their loss to the Republicans and President Donald Trump back in November last year. While the margin of victory was not historic electorally—President Trump won the popular vote by 1.48 points and won 312 electoral votes—one aspect of the Democrats’ loss certainly was: the amount of money they spent on losing.

The Kamala Harris campaign spent around $1.5 billion, more than any presidential campaign in US history—and remember, they did it in only three months, as Vice President Harris did not become the party’s presumptive nominee until early August…

Meanwhile, President Trump was able to cruise his campaign to victory on less than a third of that budget, with only $450 million spent.

‘People invested more money than they ever had before, they dug deeper than they ever had, and they are quite frustrated by the result. They want answers,’ new DNC chairman Ken Martin told The New York Times in a piece published on Wednesday, 18 June.

That piece, despite being run by the traditionally left-leaning publication The New York Times, does not paint a pretty picture of the Democrats’ present.

First off, the big-money donors Martin mentioned above have not returned to the Democratic Party yet. As a result, the party’s cash on hand decreased by $4 million from April to June. At the same time, the GOP has increased its cash reserves by $29 million, the article points out. According to the latest numbers from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Democrats have $15 million in cash on hand, while the GOP has $72 million. To make matters worse, despite the financial woes, incoming Chairman Martin has accepted a pay raise for himself: he will be making $350,000 a year, as opposed to his predecessor, Jaime Harrison, who was making $300,000 a year.

And the Democrats’ problems do not stop with money.

In an effort to reach out to young men, a voter demographic they are desperately behind, the DNC elected David Hogg as party Vice Chair in February 2025. 25-year-old Hogg first received national attention in February 2018, when he recorded videos while the mass shooting at his high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was taking place.

However, his stint as DNC Vice Chair abruptly ended. Not only did he use DNC communication channels without authorization to solicit donations to his own action PAC, Leaders We Deserve, thus diverting funds away from the DNC, but later it was also revealed that he was planning on using that money to challenge incumbent Democrats in primaires if he thought they were not progressive enough. This culminated in Hogg’s election being voided by the DNC in April, citing a lack of compliance with the party’s diversity quotas.

‘This is worse than some high school student council drama,’ Democrat Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin damningly described the David Hogg debacle in the NYT piece.

This is the current state of the Democratic Party in the United States, while they do everything they can to halt President Trump’s agenda.

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