World Courant
Vice President Harris’ debt-ridden presidential marketing campaign spent $2.6 million on personal 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 choices 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 personal flights.
The prices ranged from $3,500 to $940,000 per disbursement, with $2.2 million going to an organization named Personal Jet Companies Group, whereas $430,000 went to Superior Aviation Workforce, a constitution flight dealer.
TRUMP APPOINTS TULSI GABBARD AS DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: ‘FEARLESS SPIRIT’
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., Nov. 2. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin)
In September, marketing campaign employees spent $3.1 million on personal flights, which brings the flight-related expense complete to greater than $10 million since July.
The expenditures are just some of a number of monetary choices 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 data present the marketing campaign spent not less than $15 million on “occasion manufacturing.”
HERE ARE THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT CANDIDATES FOR TOP POSTS IN TRUMP’S ADMINISTRATION
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 by way of Getty Photos)
The marketing campaign’s use of personal jets has been criticized in latest weeks for each monetary and environmental causes. Personal jets emit extra greenhouse gases per passenger than business flights do, and Harris beforehand stated local weather change was an “existential risk.”
“There’s no query we’ve to be sensible. However being sensible additionally acknowledges that local weather change is an existential risk to us as human beings,” Harris instructed CNN in 2019. “Being sensible acknowledges that greenhouse fuel emissions are threatening our air and threatening the planet and that it’s effectively inside our capability as human beings to vary our behaviors in a approach that we will scale back its results.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., Oct. 13. (Alex Wong)
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
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.
Andrea Margolis is a author for Fox Information Digital and Fox Enterprise. Readers can ship story tricks to [email protected].
