Democrats used hundreds of millions of dollars from anonymous donors in their quest to take the White House, facing defeat and abandoning their principles in the process.
When the Democratic Party formally nominated Vice President Kamala Harris for President in August, it also adopted an official platform explicitly denouncing the presence of “dark money” in politics. Despite this stance, campaign finance disclosures show Harris relied heavily on outside groups funded by dark money to propel her failed bid for the White House.
Outside groups spent nearly $1 billion between January 2023 and election day working to put a Democrat in the White House in 2025, according to campaign finance records. The largest spenders among these groups received the majority of their cash not from individual Americans, but rather from advocacy groups with opaque sources of funding. (Stream The Daily…
