{"id":33830,"date":"2025-02-20T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T09:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/dnc-gave-ex-harris-booster-no-choice-but-to-leave-she-says-as-dems-cry-turncoat\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T09:59:50","slug":"dnc-gave-ex-harris-booster-no-choice-but-to-leave-she-says-as-dems-cry-turncoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/dnc-gave-ex-harris-booster-no-choice-but-to-leave-she-says-as-dems-cry-turncoat\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC gave ex-Harris booster &#8216;no choice&#8217; but to leave, she says, as Dems cry turncoat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrat fundraiser<\/a> and political strategist is responding to questions about her leaving the party, saying she &#8220;didn&#8217;t plan&#8221; on making the exit and &#8220;had no choice but to leave the cult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m the only one from the campaign telling the truth,&#8221; Lindy Li, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/woke-god-ex-dem-fundraiser-says-party-in-shambles-after-2024-election-losses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fundraised for Democrats<\/a> in the 2024 presidential election, told Fox News Digital in an interview. &#8220;DNC leadership responded to my questions with deeply personal attacks. I had no choice but to leave the cult and am finally free to return to my roots as a conservative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Piers Morgan said in a post on X he was &#8220;confused&#8221; by one of Li&#8217;s posts during the campaign, where she is pictured with presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and said that she &#8220;already voted&#8221; for her in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m confused. On Monday, you told me you didn\u2019t vote for Kamala in the 2024 election. But you posted this on your X account on October 3. Though oddly, you have now deleted it overnight. What\u2019s going on?&#8221; Morgan wrote Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/woke-god-ex-dem-fundraiser-says-party-in-shambles-after-2024-election-losses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>\u2018WOKE IS THEIR GOD\u2019: EX-DEM FUNDRAISER SAYS PARTY \u2018IN SHAMBLES\u2019 AFTER 2024 ELECTION LOSSES<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Li, responding to the question, said that as a surrogate of the Harris campaign, she &#8220;didn\u2019t want to hurt Harris by disclosing I didn\u2019t vote for her&#8221; and felt a &#8220;responsibility&#8221; to &#8220;see the campaign through,&#8221; despite personal objections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/democratic-operatives-freaked-out-party-wont-have-come-to-jesus-moment-after-trump-win-nyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES FREAKED OUT THAT THE PARTY WON&#8217;T HAVE \u2018COME-TO-JESUS\u2019 MOMENT AFTER TRUMP WIN: NYT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a public-facing surrogate of the campaign and a member of the team, I had a responsibility to see the campaign through, despite my personal objections \u2014 supporting Harris through Election Day was the right thing to do,&#8221; Li told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t leave the DNC. They pushed me out for simply asking for accountability for how the billions of dollars were spent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Li was a well-known fundraiser for the Democrats&#8217; 2024 presidential campaign before announcing her exit from the party in December after she said she was ostracized for criticizing then-Democrat presidential nominee Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The former Democrat said her decision to leave the party &#8220;wasn&#8217;t easy&#8221; but was the &#8220;result of a decade-long progression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took a while for me to get here over the course of the past year. I just realized that the values of the Democratic Party are so incongruous to mine,&#8221; Li told Fox. &#8220;It just contradicts everything I believe, everything from open borders to woke and DEI insanity. It&#8217;s just not my party anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one is contradicting me on the facts, they are coming after me as a person,&#8221; Li said, telling Fox that she is already working on fundraising for the GOP for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 midterms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to the DNC for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: A former Democrat fundraiser and political strategist is responding to questions about her leaving the party, saying she &#8220;didn&#8217;t plan&#8221; on making the exit and &#8220;had no choice but to leave the cult.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m the only one from the campaign telling the truth,&#8221; Lindy Li, who fundraised for Democrats in the 2024 presidential election, &#8230; <a title=\"DNC gave ex-Harris booster &#8216;no choice&#8217; but to leave, she says, as Dems cry turncoat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/dnc-gave-ex-harris-booster-no-choice-but-to-leave-she-says-as-dems-cry-turncoat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DNC gave ex-Harris booster &#8216;no choice&#8217; but to leave, she says, as Dems cry turncoat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}