Democratic Consultants Lash Out at Voters as Racist and Sexist

Some Democratic consultants working on the presidential race are not in the mood for introspection.

The Democrats raised and spent historic amounts of money on the failed presidential campaign, much of it flowing to an array of consultants and highly paid operatives. The Kamala Harris campaign raised and spent well over $1 billion, while its major SuperPAC, Future Forward, contributed over $700 million. The total tally from the many other Democratic PACs focused on the race isn’t yet available.

Yet the result was a catastrophe for Democrats across the board. Donald Trump mobilized a coalition of working class and multiracial support, convincing significant numbers of Arab, Latino, Native American, Asian, and Black voters. 

In response, the D.C. consulting clash is lashing out at the voters they failed to persuade.

Cornell Belcher, whose polling firm Brilliant Corners was paid over $1.1 million by Democratic PACs this cycle, responded to the results by endorsing a claim from former New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley that the election showed the “deep roots of racism, sexism and xenophobia.” Belcher posted that Wiley’s observation was “very, very well said and spot on.”

Adrianne Shropshire, a Democratic operative who leads the Black PAC, a group primarily funded by billionaire George Soros and Harris’s Super PAC, struck a similar tone. 

Harris’s defeat, wrote Shropshire in a column for Newsweek on Saturday, was “a stunning rebuke of the possibility of a nation guided by our better angels in favor of a modern-day caricature of the Confederacy.”