Alex Cooper, the host of the sex-themed podcast “Call Her Daddy,” scoffed at the idea that Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign reportedly spent six figures to create a set ahead of their interview.
The Harris campaign and the Democratic Party burned through roughly $1.5 billion during her 15-week presidential campaign, which included the campaign reportedly spending at least $100,000 to redo the studio for the vice president’s Oct. 6 interview on “Call Her Daddy.” Cooper expressed disbelief at the reports during The New York Times Dealbook Summit, stating that the quality of the studio located in Washington, D.C. could not possibly be worth six figures.
“It was like a random house … my studio, which is gorgeous in Los Angeles, doesn’t even cost six figures,” Cooper told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin. “So I don’t know how cardboard walls could cost six figures … with love to them, oh my god, it was gorgeous, but like it wasn’t that nice. It wasn’t like gorgeous marble, no, that was not six figures.”
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Aside from the money reportedly spent on Cooper’s podcast, the campaign blew through more than $15 million on “event production,” with $1 million going to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions on Oct. 15, according to the Washington Examiner. The massive spending resulted in the Democratic National Committee landing themselves in at least $20 million in debt and be forced to fire hundreds of employees.
The campaign’s chief financial officer, Patrick Stauffer, disputed reports that the party is in massive debt due to the 2024 election cycle during an interview with Bloomberg.
The Harris campaign’s 2024 campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said during a Nov. 26 interview that the money spent on “Call Her Daddy” was “really important” in order to reach younger and lower propensity voters who had distanced themselves from politics.
Democratic donor John Morgan argued Monday that the campaign spending should end Harris’ political career, while Democratic National Committee member Lindy Li told News Nation on Nov. 26 that she was “stunned” by Harris and her campaign’s lack of accountability for the spending.
A seven-minute clip of the 44-minute long interview reached 924,000 views as of Friday, standing significantly lower than Trump’s interview with prominent podcaster Joe Rogan that reached 52 million views. Democratic strategist and media expert Lis Smith told former Obama adviser Tommy Vietor that the interview did not become too successful due to the vice president and Cooper focusing too heavily on policy.
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