Prominent Democratic National Committee (DNC) powerhouse fundraiser Lindy Li announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party, which she referred to as a "cult," after facing an onslaught of internal attacks for criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris last week.

Li, a Democrat strategist, served as both a surrogate for Harris and a member of the DNC’s national fundraising committee, where she raised "tens of millions of dollars" on behalf of Democratic candidates. She also frequently appeared on the air to stump for Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign. 

Li became the target of the left's attacks earlier this month when she expressed support for President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth. But it was the party's vitriolic response to a subsequent appearance on Fox News that pushed her rightward, she said on "Piers Morgan Uncensored."

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"This past week has been harrowing for me," Li told Piers Morgan in Wednesday's episode. "This Saturday, I went on ‘Fox & Friends’ and I said ‘Democrats have a stench of loser hanging over them.’ As soon as I said that, there were boycott campaigns against me. Unblock, unfollow campaigns."

Li told "Fox & Friends" that she felt Harris was "indulging in delusions" of making a political comeback amid party buzz of the vice president staging a 2026 gubernatorial or 2028 presidential run and that the Democratic Party was plagued by the "stench of loser" after November's defeat.

The comment cost her forty thousand followers in four days and prompted an onslaught of slanderous attacks from Democrats, the same people she spent her whole career defending, she told Morgan.

"People have called me a whore, the ‘C-word.’ They asked for me to be deported…," she revealed.

Li said she was also accused of working as a "communist spy." The accusation was particularly offensive to her, she said, considering her family history.

"They're calling me a spy for the regime that killed my great-grandfather and these are the people who call themselves the social justice warriors," she told Morgan. "They're going headfirst into racism anytime someone dares to disagree with them. I want to be a part of the team that says men are men and women are women and men shouldn't play in women's sports."

The reaction was eye-opening for her, she said, telling Morgan that she feels like the party who claims to occupy the moral high ground has been unmasked.

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"All these so-called Democrats, the party of inclusion, the party of diversity, masks off. And it's even worse because they pretend to occupy the moral high ground," she said. "They pretend to be so loving and caring and embracing of diversity but all of a sudden, when I dare to utter any criticisms of the goddess Kamala Harris, I get ostracized. Me, after having raised tens of millions of dollars for the party."

She continued, "My donors are pissed…it's my responsibility to ask what the hell happened with their money…these are legitimate questions, but no, in the cult, you can't ask questions. And leaving the Democratic Party or even questioning the Democratic Party is like leaving a cult. It's terrifying. I don't want to be a part of this craziness anymore. They're accelerating my rightward shift."

Li said Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves for driving her and other prominent fundraisers out.

"They're shrinking their tent. They're basically pushing me to bring my tens of millions of dollars that I've raised and can continue to raise to a different team that treats me better, that treats me with common decency.'

Four days earlier, Li told NewsNation's "Morning in America" that she was still weighing her options about what a future role might look like for her.

"I think I'm too big to fully exile from the party," Li said of her contributions to the DNC at the time, seemingly signifying a change of heart in the short time between both comments were made. "The leadership knows that."

"People on Trump's team have already reached out to me to see if I'd be willing to switch," Li added. "So, I'm not an orphan, you know? And I know people are actively trying to recruit me."

Li isn't the first Democratic fundraiser to exit the party. In September, an ex-Obama fundraiser who helped raise millions in donations for his campaign announced that she was "divorcing" the Democratic Party and planned to vote for Trump in the November election.

Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.V., delivered a parting shot to the Democratic Party, calling his former party "toxic" as he prepares to retire from office at the end of the congressional term.

Manchin, who was a lifelong Democrat before registering as an Independent earlier this year, blasted the Democratic Party in an interview with CNN’s "Inside Politics with Manu Raju" that aired on Sunday.

"The D-brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of, it’s just, it’s toxic," Manchin said, adding that he left the party because he no longer considered himself a Democrat "in the form of what Democratic Party has turned itself into."

Manchin blamed progressive lawmakers for shifting the party’s brand away from issues such as ensuring good jobs and good pay for Americans to instead focus more on sensitive social issues like transgender rights and telling Americans what they can or cannot do.

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"They have basically expanded upon thinking, ‘Well, we want to protect you there, but we’re going to tell you how you should live your life from that far on,’" Manchin said of the Democratic Party.

He claimed the progressives in Washington, D.C., are out of touch with Americans, stating, "This country is not going left."

But Manchin did not only criticize Democrats, pointing the finger at Republican lawmakers who he claimed are "too extreme" and lack common sense on the issue of guns.

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"I’m not going to ban you from buying it," Manchin said of guns, "but you’re going to have to show some responsibility."

"So the Democrats go too far, want to ban," Manchin said. "The Republican says, ‘Oh, let the good times roll. Let anybody have anything they want.’ Just some commonsense things there."

Manchin, who has often been a crucial swing vote, was known for his moderate approach and bipartisan work on national issues in the Senate.

Manchin served 14 years in the Senate. His political career began as a state delegate in the early 1980s, before being elected as a state senator until the late 90s. Manchin served as Secretary of State for four years, and then was elected as governor of West Virginia in 2005. 

Fox News Digital’s Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.

In the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election, ESPN's Stephen A. Smith addressed whether he regretted backing Democrats. 

"I voted Democrat, and I got to tell you something right now, I don't like the fact that I did. I don't like what I'm seeing," Smith said on "Life, LIberty & Levin," Saturday.

Since President-elect Trump's historic win in November, the Democratic Party has played the blame game with accusations swirling over who is to blame for Vice President Harris' loss.

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While some have pointed to Harris, others have called out President Biden for his failed re-election campaign and poor approval rating. 

Criticism of the president has continued in the final weeks of his term, specifically over his decision to pardon his son, Hunter. 

"I don't want to hear about, 'Oh we're about the law. Nobody's above the law. Nobody's above the law.' But then you go out, and you pardon your son, and you try to blame everybody else for it," Smith told host Mark Levin.

Biden issued a sweeping pardon for Hunter on Dec. 1 after he stated on record multiple times that he would not pardon him should a jury convict his son.

Smith's qualms with the Democratic Party, however, extend beyond Biden's controversial pardon. The ESPN personality echoed sentiments from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders calling out the party's platform and policy focuses. 

"I don't want to hear about defund the police. I don't want to hear about, you know what? There should be open borders. I don't want to hear this stuff. And I don't think most of the American people want to hear that," Smith said. 

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Following the election, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders pinned blame for Harris' loss on the Democratic Party for "abandoning" the working class, sparking a rebuke from former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. 

"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change," Sanders posted to X in November, accompanied by a press release on the election results. "And they’re right."

Smith told Levin he is "no longer interested in… listening to a bunch of fearmongering to tell us who we shouldn't vote for."

"Why don't you come up with a plan that tells us why we should vote for you?" he posited.

"We're not about America only, but being about America and prioritizing what's going on in this nation with the desolate and the disenfranchized and everybody else in between, and looking out for the best interests of what it is for America… that is not a crime for an American politician or commander in chief or senator or congressional figure to have that mentality," he continued.

"If Donald Trump, JD Vance, Byron Donalds, Marco Rubio, or a host of other Republican candidates coming down the pike, that's the kind of message that they're going to put forth, I'm down for it. I'm open-minded enough to make sure that they entertain that from a policy perspective. That's what I want for the American people. That's what I want for this nation."

Smith conceded he could "quite possibly" see himself voting for Trump if the president-elect could run again, but he said Trump would still have to "prove a lot." 

"What concerned me about Donald Trump, and the reason I voted against him and voted for Kamala Harris, was because I felt that he would be divisive. That he would create chaos because he demands such a level of loyalty and fealty to him. And that would take priority over governing our nation. That was my concern," he explained. 

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"It can't be just about fealty to him and loyalty to him. It has to be about getting the job done on behalf of what's in the best interests of the American people as opposed to yourself, and not engaging in the kind of juvenile tendencies, tweeting all the time and going after people who are really…irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. You do things like that, and you show that you're the adult in the room, I don't think anybody could dismiss Donald Trump at this particular moment in time."

Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this report.