Ex-DNC member says she's now raising money for Trump
An ex-Democratic National Committee official who helped finance President Biden and Vice President Harris’s White House campaigns says she's now fundraising for President-elect Trump.
In an interview with The Daily Mail this week, Lindy Li, a former DNC official who raised money for high-profile Democrats, said that she is turning her attention to Republicans, aligning with the MAGA figures she tried to defeat as recently as November.
Li in the interview described the DNC as a “cult” and is now asking fellow donors to join her in the pro-Trump movement.
“My real friends are all supportive, but my political friends, it’s just been really bad. It’s a cult. The way that they’ve treated me is difficult,” she told the outlet. “I’m not the only donor, I’m just the only one who is a public figure and willing to speak out, everyone else is afraid for their own necks."
Li described the experience as “painful and rewarding” following Harris’s sweeping loss to Trump. She had spent much of the election appearing alongside prominent Democrats in support of the Biden-Harris ticket and later the Harris-Walz effort when Biden announced he would not seek a second term. She emphasized Harris possibly ascending to become the first female president.
During the cycle, Li harshly condemned the now-president-elect most notably around his allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, painting him as unqualified to serve again in the Oval Office. But after Harris’s loss, she quickly got in front of cable news audiences by criticizing the Democratic nominee and party structure led by Biden ally Jaimie Harrison. Democrats in turn called out the Princeton graduate, who many saw as abruptly switching sides to gain political favor in Trump’s Washington.
Li escalated her rhetoric against Democrats as they piled on, causing her to become further alienated from the party and in some cases receive ill will from top DNC brass, including Harrison.
Less than a week out from Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, she said the experience has been better working with Republicans.
“They are so much more human with me,” Li told the Daily Mail. “'With the DNC it was so mercenary it felt that everyone had dollar signs in their eyes, they treated me like a wallet it was just so disgusting and gross.”
“I think people have had enough of the 'Oh Trump is really bad we’re going to pre-hate everything he does,'" Li added. “I think it’s dead.”