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According to a recent study, the Oprah Winfrey town hall event cost Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign more than twice as much as previously thought.
A month after Winfrey’s town hall with Harris and weeks before the two appeared at a Harris rally in Philadelphia,
The Harris campaign paid Winfrey’s Harpo Productions $500,000 twice on October 15, according to FEC filings that were first revealed by the Washington Examiner.
According to two sources, the event with Winfrey cost close to $2.5 million in total, as reported by The New York Times.
During her 15-week presidential campaign, Harris’ campaign spent $1.5 billion, or $100 million a week, the Times reported.
The Democratic Party is reportedly $20 million in debt from the unsuccessful campaign, and Democratic contributors say they are still receiving solicitations.
Almost $9,000 worth of ice cream from upscale stores like Sweet Lucy’s Ice Cream and Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams was among the recorded expenditures.
The Chicago Tribune criticizes the Harris campaign for sending enormous sums of money to celebrities like Oprah Winfrey.
According to the Times, Harris’ team spent about $15,000 on meal delivery services like DoorDash and Uber Eats between July and the end of the election in early November.
According to reports, Harris’ campaign spent $2.6 million on private jet travel over two weeks in October.
Even though Hillary lost Nevada by three points, the campaign also paid $900,000 to reserve ad space on Las Vegas’ Sphere in the last week of the election.
According to reports, influencer relationships and celebrity appearances and performances aimed at promoting campaign events accounted for the majority of the excessive spending.
OPRAH, HARRIS IS BLEACHED BY THE TIKTOK CREATOR FOR INCLUDING HER IN THE TOWN HALL INTERVIEW: “I am not in favor of Harris.”
Although Harpo Productions admitted to taking funds from the campaign, a representative for the company told Variety that the money was used for “production costs.”
“Oprah Winfrey was at no point during the campaign paid a personal fee, nor did she receive a fee from Harpo,” a spokeswoman stated.
The Harris campaign was contacted by Fox News Digital for comment, but they did not immediately respond. Jeffrey Clark of Fox News Digital contributed to this story.