The Democratic National Committee has hired the social media staffers 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 the new @FactPostNews brand Democratic Party Through X, Threads, and Bluesky, with plans to expand to Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. The account will seek to counter so-called “misinformation” from President-elect Trump's administration in real time.
“The Republican disinformation machine is powerful, but we believe the most powerful weapon is giving people the facts about how Trump and his administration are screwing over the American people,” Shelby Cole, chief mobilization officer for the Democratic National Committee, told Axios.
The DNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on Monday morning.
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The social media team behind Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign account is launching a new initiative with the Democratic National Committee. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
The team's first set of orders will be to harass the confirmation process for Trump's Cabinet nominees, that is, by highlighting their personal wealth, according to Axios. An internal memo describes the candidates as “inappropriate billionaire choices.”
The new initiative comes as Democrats reevaluate their election strategies across the board 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 view the 2024 election as a loss and reflect on what went wrong for the party after losing both The white house The Senate and the failure to overturn the House of Representatives.
Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks after a political luncheon on Capitol Hill, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Maryam Zohaib, File)
Schumer appeared on NBC's “Meet the Press,” where he was asked about Democratic strategist James Carville's assertion that the reason Democrats lost is because “economy, stupid.”
“I've told my caucus, and I'll say it here as well… Certainly it was a loss, but it's also a challenge,” Schumer said of the election.
Schumer said Democrats faced “severe headwinds” to win four of the seven contested Democratic Senate seats, though he acknowledged “we did 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 scored big victories across the board in November. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“What we're going to do is spend some time talking to working families, showing them how much we care about them,” Schumer added. “And we're not just talking about legislation, we're talking about the conditions that have made a lot of working families anxious about their future.”
Fox News' Stephen Sorace contributed to this report
