The Democratic National Committee has hired the social media staff who ran the @KamalaHQ account during Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign, the organization announced Monday.
The social team will now focus on building a new @FactPostNews brand for Democratic Party through X, Threads and Bluesky, with plans to expand to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. The bill will seek to counter so-called “disinformation” from President-elect Trump’s administration in real time.
“The Republican disinformation machine is powerful, but we believe the stronger weapon is giving people the facts about how Trump and his administration are screwing the American people,” Shelby Cole, the DNC’s chief of mobilization, told Axios.
The DNC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment Monday morning.
The social media team behind Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign account is launching a new initiative with the Democratic National Committee. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The team’s first set of marching orders will be to disrupt the confirmation process for Trump administration nominees, namely by highlighting their personal wealth, according to Axios. An internal memo calls the nominees an “inappropriate choice of billionaires.”
The new initiative comes as Democrats reassess their election strategies after Trump’s landslide victory in November.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., acknowledged last week that Democrats should consider the 2024 election a loss and reflect on what went wrong for the party after losing both The white house and the Senate and the failure to change the House of Representatives.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, September 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
Schumer appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he was asked about Democratic strategist James Carville’s claim that the reason Democrats lost was because of “economy, stupid.”
“I told my caucus, and I’ll say it here … certainly it was a loss, but it’s also a challenge,” Schumer said of the election.
Schumer said Democrats faced “serious headwinds” to win four of the seven Democratic Senate seats up for grabs, though he acknowledged that “we’ve done some things wrong and we have to look in the mirror and see what we did wrong.”
President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans secured landslide victories in November. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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“What we’re going to do is spend time talking to working families, showing them how much we care about them,” Schumer added. “And not just about legislation, but about conditions that have many working families worried about their future.”
Fox News’ Stephen Sorace contributed to this report
