Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign reportedly gave giant 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, wherein he requested her what she wished her legacy to be, 50 years from now.
Sharpton wasn’t the one media ally that acquired a cost from the marketing campaign to his group forward of their sit-down interview, a bombshell New York Occasions report revealed.
The marketing campaign additionally gave a $350,000 cost to Nu Imaginative and prescient Media on September 9, in accordance 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 former CNN contributor advised the Occasions the cost was for promoting.
“It should have been a hell of a lot more,” he mentioned, in accordance with the report. “More should have been spent on Black-owned media.”
In response to 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 brief 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 workers 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.
The complete value of the occasion with Winfrey was nearer to $2.5 million, Harris allies advised the Occasions.
A Harpo Productions spokesperson acknowledged to Selection that the corporate took cash from the marketing campaign however claimed it was for “production costs.”
The Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly return a request for remark to Fox Information Digital.
