(Congress Report) – If you thought all of those celebrities appearing at Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign rallies did so strictly because they believed in the cause and wanted to really help her defeat President-elect Donald Trump for free, my friend, you would be very, very wrong. In fact, Harris actually paid Oprah’s company, Harpo Productions, a whopping $1 million for Oprah to make an appearance and promote her bid for the presidency. And that’s just one of many payments made to Hollywood’s “elites” in order to campaign for the vice president. The amount of money spent on this strategy is obscene.
“The Harris campaign paid $1 million to Winfrey’s company on October 15, according to a report in the Washington Examiner, coming after a star-studded town hall that Winfrey hosted for the vice president in September. Winfrey also appeared at Harris’ final rally in Philadelphia on the eve of Election Day, with the talk-show star offering a rare endorsement of a presidential candidate,” Fox News divulged.
“We’re voting for values and integrity,” Winfrey stated at the rally. “We’re voting for healing over hate.” How seriously can you take someone talking about values, integrity, and healing when they are standing up at the podium receiving a cool million dollars to spout all that stuff? Kind of hard to take what’s being said as sincere.
We have plenty of other examples.
“A source familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner that the Harris campaign spent six figures on building a set for Harris’s appearance on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast with host Alex Cooper,” the Examiner went on to reveal. “The interview came out in October and was reportedly filmed in a hotel room in Washington, D.C.”
“The campaign also spent up to $20 million on swing state concerns on the eve of the election, according to a report in the New York Post, a sum that could have been more if a planned performance by Alanis Morissette had not been scrapped. The campaign had seven swing-state concerts on Monday, the report noted, including performances by Jon Bon Jovi in Detroit, Christina Aguilera in Las Vegas, Katy Perry in Pittsburgh and Lady Gaga in Philadelphia, and a 2 Chainz performance at a rally three days before the election in Atlanta,” the piece continued.
Wondering why Kamala Harris is $20 million in debt? $1 million for Oprah's endorsement that flopped harder than her campaign, plus $100,000 for a SET where she delivered what might be the internet's most painfully awkward podcast. pic.twitter.com/ogpaLTLmsd
— Cam.™ (@_CameronLane) November 9, 2024
Brad Todd, a GOP strategist spoke with the Examiner and remarked, “Money can’t buy you love or a good candidate.”
“Advertising is a pretty important source of information for swing voters,” Todd explained. “It no doubt matters, but it’s not enough. It doesn’t matter if you have the wrong message and it’s not delivered in a compelling way. What her campaign was missing was any effort to break with the unpopular administration she has been a part of.”
When Fox News sought comment from the Harris campaign regarding all of the money they blew, trying to get celebrity endorsements for someone who might just be the worst candidate to ever run for office, there was no response.
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