Kamala Harris’ campaign spent an eye-watering $2.6million in the month of October on private jets to help fuel her failed $1billion race for the presidency.
The Vice President’s campaign, Harris for President, spent nearly $3million on private flights between October 3 and October 15, according to recent FEC filings.
This brings her total to $12million for private jet usage, records show, but the number could shoot even higher as final receipts are submitted to the FEC.
Her campaign paid Private Jet Services Group nearly $2.2million and Advanced Aviation Team $430,000 in the last few weeks of her campaign around the country with running mate Tim Walz.
The use of private transportation, especially air travel, has long been criticized for its huge amount of carbon emission – something Harris told Americans needed to be reduced to combat global warming.
‘Kamala Harris and a lot of pro-climate leaders have a lot of hypocrisy with the words that they state and the realities they must think are real,’ Benji Backer, founder of the American Conservation Coalition, told the New York Post.
‘We need sensible solutions on environment and climate issues, but we’re not going to get them when there’s so much hypocrisy coming from the elitists that everyone else needs to change their lives except for them.’
But Harris’ contribution to carbon emissions throughout her historic 107 campaign wasn’t the only astronomical expense spared for the failed ticket.
The team behind Harris also spent a whopping six-figure on set design for the Call Her Daddy podcast appearance, as well as, $1million to Oprah’s production company.
And as the campaign highlights showed, Harris and Walz rarely went without a sweet little treat or a hearty meal, and they also bought more behind the scenes, spending more than $12,000 on DoorDash and UberEats, according to the FEC.
Another $12,000 went to buying pints and pints of ice creaming including Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams and Sweet Lucy’s Ice Cream.
They also spent $62,722 on room and board at Hotel Du Point, a five-star hotel, in Wilmington, Delaware.
The campaign also spent nearly $10,000 at Pebble Bar near Rockefeller Center in New York City, where the likes of comedian Pete Davison and others dining inside. This charge was made when Biden was still the Democratic presidential nominee.
GOP consultant Erin Perrine told the New York Post that ‘nobody should be shocked Kamala Harris is not being sworn in on January 20’ as the campaign just ‘wanted to have a party’ rather than ‘getting the message out.’
‘That’s not how it works,’ he told The Post.
Harris’ campaign also paid out $5.6million to 24 liberal groups, with a large number of them going to black and Latino groups in swing states.
The Harris for President campaign’s biggest expense went to Media Buying & Analytics LLC, which received $281million for ad buys and productions, according to records.
She spent nearly $1.5billion on her campaign in a little over 100 days.
Despite internet speculation that Harris ended her campaign with millions of dollars owed, according to FEC filings, she is currently in $0 in debt.