A member of Kamala Harris’ team, who is also a prominent member of the Democratic National Committee, was filmed admitting that she “will not win this year.”
Joyce DeCerce, Kamala Harris’ campaign compliance manager and DNC compliance manager, complained that Harris is “weirdly unpopular” and admitted to making empty promises to donors.
In the footage, DeCerce agrees that the campaign’s fundraising strategy is to “take their money and tell them what they want to hear.”
The devastating denouement comes as Harris prepares to accept her party’s nomination, after signaling on Tuesday that she wants to win.
The unsubstantiated footage comes from O’Keefe Media and an unidentified female undercover journalist.
The unsubstantiated footage appears to show Kamala Harris Campaign Compliance Manager Joyce DeCerce — who also serves as Compliance Manager for the DNC — complaining about how “weirdly unpopular” Harris is, while seemingly admitting to making empty promises to donors.
O’Keefe Media founder James O’Keefe claimed in a video on X that the journalist received a “threatening” postcard at her home asking her not to publish the video.
O’Keefe, 40, is notorious for founding the far-right activist group Project Veritas, which produces misleadingly edited videos, often at the expense of politicians.
“I like Kamala Harris, but I don’t think she’s going to win this year,” DeCerce says in the clip.
When asked why, he gives a scathing answer, suggesting that Harris’s lack of popularity stems from her lack of success and the fact that she is a black woman.
“She’s strangely unpopular,” DeCerce says, sitting across from the invisible “journalist.”
“I think a lot of it is racism and misogyny,” he admits.
“And the vice president is so easy to attack, right? She has no record of accomplishments, because she’s the vice president. She doesn’t make laws.
DeCerce continued: “Her job is to become president when Joe Biden dies. And often the vice president, whoever it is, is sent in to do the hard work.”
When asked why Harris is “constantly attacked,” DeCerce responded, “Honestly, if you look at the things that people are attacking her with, it’s just a lot of racist, sexist bullshit.”
“It’s just things you wouldn’t say about a man,” he adds. “People call her ditsy.”
At this point, DeCerce explains his responsibilities as compliance manager.
“I don’t manage anyone,” he says of his role at an organization that nominates the party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates.
“The most important part of my job is to report to the government how much the DNC has raised and what the money is being spent on.
“And the Joe Biden campaign right now, because there’s nobody who can do that for them,” he adds.
“She’s strangely unpopular,” DeCerce seemingly says of Harris as he sits across from the unseen “journalist.” “I think a lot of it is racism and misogyny,” he admits at one point.
When asked how they obtain donations, he replies: ‘You basically tell a donor what he wants to hear.’
Later he was asked, “Do you think our strategy has always been to take their money and tell them what they want to hear?” – to which the aide replied, “Yes, that’s politics.”
When the filmmaker is surprised by his answer and asks again, DeCerce replies, “100 percent.”
He also says he thought it was “a good thing” that Biden debated Trump — despite it being the president’s undoing days later. The clip appears to have been filmed before the debate, which was held on June 28.
“Because then he would have had to debate Trump,” DeCerce reasons.
‘Politically speaking, he should have done that.’
He adds: “There have been people who didn’t want to give us money because they felt the campaign wasn’t doing well enough or Biden wasn’t strong enough.
The undercover journalist then wonders, “So some donors are reluctant to write checks because they don’t think the campaign is doing well?”
DeCerce seems to agree, to which the journalist replies, “Why would they think that?”
“I don’t know. A lot of people think we should attack Trump more.”
O’Keefe, meanwhile, claimed that the woman who met DeCerce and filmed the encounter arranged the meeting on the dating app Bumble.
He said the two had met several times.