Too expensive, the DNC told Clarke after the company presented the list. “They said all their money had to go into the presidential race,” he recalled. They told him they’d worry about the security issues after Election Day. That response came as no surprise to anyone who knew the DNC as a bailing-wire-and-duct-tape organization held together largely by the labors of recent college graduates working on shoestring budgets. Of the many disastrous misjudgments the Democrats made in the 2016 elections, that one may rank as the worst.
