Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign reportedly donated $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s nonprofit, the National Action Network (NAN), just weeks before her poor interview with a professional race hunter on MSNBC.
According to a report by Washington Free BeaconHarris’s donation is part of a larger $5.4 million spending spree aimed at boosting her favorability among Black and Latino groups – a strategy that, as we know, fell flat.
Federal campaign finance records reveal the Harris campaign made two payments of $250,000 each to Sharpton’s National Action Network in early September and October. Just days after the contribution, Sharpton posted a video wishing Harris a happy birthday, in which he praised her “incredible leadership” and her role as “the voice of truth”.
On October 20, Sharpton conducted an interview with Harris on MSNBC PoliticsNationin which he highlighted Harris’ “historic campaign” and described him as a counterforce to Trump’s “hostile and uncertain” agenda.
The Washington Free Beacon reported:
Sharpton did not disclose any payments from the Harris campaign during any of his dealings with the candidate. The National Action Network did not respond to a request for comment. MSNBC also did not respond to a request for comment.
Harris’ donation to the National Action Network and similar groups is part of a $1 billion spending spree that has caused heartache and soul-searching in the Democratic Party, which has lost the popular vote to a Republican candidate for the first time since 2004. The campaign, which ended up $20 million in debt, relied heavily on celebrities, influencers, and prominent Harris supporters to make the case to voters. His campaign gave $1 million to Oprah Winfrey’s production company, and paid a six-figure sum to create a set for Harris’ interview Call Him Daddy podcast, in Washington Examiner reported.
Tim Harris donated to the National Urban League ($2 million), the Black Economic Alliance ($150,000), and the Black Church PAC ($150,000). The campaign made donations to lesser-known groups like the Haitian Women’s Fund ($30,000) and International Free and Accepted Modern Masons ($150,000), an organization of black freemasons, according to campaign finance disclosures. The Black Economic Alliance held a video call to 5,000 participants the day before the election to urge black people to vote for Harris. The Vote to Live Action Fund, which received $275,000 from the Harris campaign, launched a $4 million initiative in October to push black people to vote. Harris spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the initiative to appeal to black church voters. The two organizations, Black Church PAC and the Institute for Church Administration and Management ($250,000), are linked to Frederick Haynes, an anti-Israel pastor who has worked with Harris for years on liberal causes.
The campaign gave to Casa in Action ($120,000), Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada ($105,000), and Somos Votantes ($120,000), to mobilize Latino voters in Nevada, Pennsylvania, and other swing states. The lavish giving seems to have failed because of Harris’ poor performance with black and Latino voters.
Sharpton reportedly earns a seven-figure salary from MSNBC, and is well paid by the National Action Network, which he founded in 1991. The nonprofit paid Sharpton around $650,000 in 2021 out of $7 million in revenue, and spent another $940,000 that year on “transportation.” . service” to private jet company Apollo Jets and limousine company Carey International.
This report comes as Harris is accused of paying billionaire Oprah Winfrey $1 million for public endorsements.
According to a report from The Washington Examiner about how the campaign burned more than $1 billion in funds, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions received $1 million in October for campaign-related services.
In return for this investment, Winfrey hosted a star-studded town hall and spoke at a final rally in Philadelphia before Election Day.
“We are voting for values and integrity,” Winfrey told supporters at the rally. “We choose for healing instead of hate.”
The campaign also spent about $20 million on concerts in seven swing states, featuring Bon Jovi in Detroit, Christina Aguilera in Las Vegas, Katy Perry in Pittsburgh, Lady Gaga in Philadelphia, and 2 Chainz’s performance at a rally in. Atlanta.
Millions were also spent on various production companies, including Viva Creative, when he even made a six-figure set for an interview on the show. Call Him Daddy podcast.
Sadly for the Harris campaign, none of these celebrity appearances paid off as Donald Trump returned to the White House in a landslide victory that will be remembered for decades.
As a result of reckless spending, the campaign has ended up with a debt of $ 20 million, which Trump ridiculed.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he was “pressed by the vendors” and would support “anything we can do to help them during this difficult time.”
