“On the Holmes Front” with Frank Holmes
If the 2024 election proved anything to the Democratic Party leadership, you could sum it up in the words of President Donald Trump’s campaign theme song: “You can’t always get what you want.”
The two centers of power in the Democratic Party—Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi—wanted Joe Biden to leave the presidential race, and they got it.
But a Democratic insider says the two ran into a humilating surprise they never bargained for: Kamala Harris became the nominee.
Neither Obama nor Pelosi wanted Kamala Harris to run for president in 2024, according to DNc Finance Committee member Lindy Li — and their election interference backfired spectacularly, ending with the sweeping election victory of President-elect Donald Trump.
“I know they didn’t,” admitted Li.
“I have a lot of friends in Obama World, and actually, I’m friends with Speaker Pelosi,” Li told NewsNation. “It’s not a matter conjecture for me. I know they didn’t.”
Li had a front seat, not only as a leading official in the Democratic Party, but also because of her closeness with the former president and Speaker Emerita of the House. Li is so close to the latter half of the power duo that she said that, before she publicly called on President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, she talked it over with Pelosi’s office first.
Pelosi was all on board and reportedly played a pivotal role in talking Biden into backing out of the election. As The Horn reported, Barack Obama and his team played a behind-the-scenes role in ousting Joe Biden from his own presidential nomination.
But their plans for redistributing their party’s presidential nomination got dashed to pieces. Li presents it as a procedural issue.
“Obama and Pelosi were both hoping for a primary instead of a coronation, so to speak,” Li explained. But that ran up against the plans of “the chieftains of the party” in smoke-filled back rooms, who “were hoping for a lightning round, a lightning primary.”
But if Obama and Pelosi wanted the party to have a primary, they could have had one…during the Democratic presidential primaries.
Instead, the party intimidated governors like Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker into staying on the sidelines, and it squeezed challengers like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dean Phillips into oblivion.
Only after the voters no longer had a voice in their nomination did Obama and Pelosi really pressure Biden to step aside.
The bigger problem is As I reported at The Horn News, “All reports are Obama wanted the Democrats to nominate Arizona Senator Mark Kelly instead of Kamala” as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, “but Joe Biden tipped the scales in favor of Kamala, possibly knowing she would lose.”
Multiple sources also told the New York Post that Obama told them he wanted to see Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, “at the top of the ticket” when he left the convention.
But, Li has revealed, neither one saw what was coming next.
“President Biden essentially preempted that by issuing his endorsement 30 minutes after he dropped out,” revealed Li.
Sources had confirmed the story before. “It was Joe’s big f–k you” to the powers-that-be, one Democratic insider told the Post. “Joe said, ‘If I’m out, then I am endorsing her.’”
That handed the nomination to the one person Obama and Pelosi never wanted to see nominated: Kamala Devi Harris.
That’s right: The greatest Democratic political strategists of the last 20 years—Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi—got outflanked and outsmarted by Joe Biden.
Lindy Li, a DNC official and former Kamala Harris surrogate, just CONFIRMED that neither the Obamas nor Nancy Pelosi ever actually supported Kamala Harris 😱 pic.twitter.com/rRJOssBeio
— 🇺🇸Jessica🇺🇸 (@Jessica_4_Trump) December 2, 2024
The rest is history.
But, some in the Democratic Party aren’t willing to leave this history in the past.
Kamala Harris and her supporters spent more than a billion dollars on a campaign where the polls never showed her in the lead—even when the campaign pretended they did. (Shortly before the election, Harris-Walz officials hyped a poll showing Kamala winning Iowa.)
The full total, according to an independent media tally, is more than $1.5 billion—including a million dollars to Oprah Winfrey’s company, Harpo Productions, before their town hall event, and a quarter of a million dollars to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network before Sharpton held a fawning interview with the Democratic candidate on his MSNBC show.
“Half a billion dollars went to just four well-connected Democrat firms,” Li told Piers Morgan Uncensored.
“They knew all along that Kamala Harris was losing,” she said. “But when she was with us donors, when they were wining and dining us, they told us a completely different story.”
DNC Finance Committee member Lindy Li is accused of being a grifter, and shuts up her accuser by laying out how the Kamala Harris campaign were the real grifters:
Francesca Fiorentini: "I mean no disrespect: The Democrat party has surrounded itself with opportunistic grifters… pic.twitter.com/q3OdeLpA8o— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) December 4, 2024
Li is calling for an audit of the campaign’s finances, so she can face the party’s small donors.
But two people she won’t be looking in the eye again are Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. They got their heads handed to them at the polls and spent their party into bankruptcy.
They have no business holding their heads up for a long, long time.