Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign reportedly gave massive quantities of cash to organizations run by media figures within the weeks earlier than sitting down for interviews with them.
FEC filings, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, present the Harris marketing campaign gave two $250,000 donations to Rev. Al Sharpton’s nonprofit group in September and October.
Harris sat down for a pleasant interview with the MSNBC host on October 20, by which he requested her what she needed her legacy to be, 50 years from now.
Sharpton wasn’t the one media ally that obtained a fee from the marketing campaign to his group forward of their sit-down interview, a bombshell New York Occasions report revealed.
Rev. Al Sharpton in contrast Harris to former congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of their pleasant sit-down interview. (MSNBC screenshot)
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The marketing campaign additionally gave a $350,000 fee to Nu Imaginative and prescient Media on September 9, in line with FEC filings first reported by the Occasions.
Nu Imaginative and prescient Media is a media firm run by journalist Roland Martin. Martin spent roughly half-hour interviewing Harris on his streaming program in October.
The previous CNN contributor informed the Occasions the fee was for promoting.
“It ought to have been a hell of much more,” he mentioned, in line with the report. “Extra ought to have been spent on Black-owned media.”
The Kamala Harris 2024 marketing campaign reportedly gave two $250,000 donations to Nationwide Motion Community, the group led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, forward of her sit-down with the MSNBC host.
In accordance with the Free Beacon, the Harris marketing campaign gave $5.4 million to Black and Latino advocacy teams in her effort so as to add extra of those voters to her coalition.
Information of those expenditures comes because the Harris marketing campaign faces rising scrutiny over its $1.5 billion spending spree throughout her quick presidential marketing campaign.
The Occasions report additionally discovered that star-studded election eve rallies price the marketing campaign over $10 million. Whereas the singers weren’t paid, the assist employees was, the report mentioned.
The marketing campaign additionally made two $500,000 funds to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions on Oct. 15, a month after Winfrey’s city corridor with Harris and weeks earlier than the pair appeared at a Harris Philadelphia rally, FEC filings present.
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U.S. producer and actress Oprah Winfrey holds up US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ hand as she arrive onstage throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pa., on November 4, 2024. (Photograph by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photograph by ANGELA WEISS/AFP through Getty Photos)
The complete worth of the occasion with Winfrey was nearer to $2.5 million, Harris allies informed the Occasions.
A Harpo Productions spokesperson acknowledged to Selection that the corporate took cash from the marketing campaign however claimed it was for “manufacturing prices.”
The Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly return a request for remark to Fox Information Digital.
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Fox Information’ Stepheny Worth contributed to this text.
