Vice President Harris’ debt-ridden presidential marketing campaign spent $2.6 million on non-public flights in the previous few weeks of the election season, paperwork present.
The discharge of the findings comes because the debt-saddled marketing campaign, which spent $1 billion on the path, is being scrutinized for the monetary selections it made earlier than dropping the Nov. 5 election to President-elect Trump. The marketing campaign is believed to be $20 million in debt.
The eyebrow-raising bills had been listed in a Federal Election Fee (FEC) submitting obtained by Fox Information Digital. In line with the FEC submitting, within the month of October alone, the Harris marketing campaign spent $2,626,110 on non-public flights.
The prices ranged from $3,500 to $940,000 per disbursement, with $2.2 million going to an organization named Non-public Jet Providers Group, whereas $430,000 went to Superior Aviation Crew, a constitution flight dealer.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., Nov. 2. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)
In September, marketing campaign employees spent $3.1 million on non-public flights, which brings the flight-related expense whole to greater than $10 million since July.
The expenditures are just some of a number of monetary selections for which the marketing campaign has been intensely scrutinized. For instance, Harris’ staff paid Oprah Winfrey’s manufacturing firm $1 million after the TV star spoke at a rally Oct. 15.
Harris staffers additionally gave $4 million to Village Advertising Company, an organization that connects purchasers with social media influencers. Moreover, FEC information present the marketing campaign spent at the very least $15 million on “event production.”
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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden onstage on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago Aug. 19. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
The marketing campaign’s use of personal jets has been criticized in latest weeks for each monetary and environmental causes. Non-public jets emit extra greenhouse gases per passenger than business flights do, and Harris beforehand mentioned local weather change was an “existential threat.”
“There’s no question we have to be practical. But being practical also recognizes that climate change is an existential threat to us as human beings,” Harris informed CNN in 2019. “Being practical recognizes that greenhouse gas emissions are threatening our air and threatening the planet and that it is well within our capacity as human beings to change our behaviors in a way that we can reduce its effects.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., Oct. 13. (Alex Wong)
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Fox Information Digital reached out to the Harris marketing campaign for remark.
Fox Information Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller and Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.
