One big area of focus in the various post-mortems of Vice President Kamala Harris’ second failed presidential campaign has been on the piles of money (one billion dollars) she spent trying to win the support of voters in key battleground states.
For instance, there were the stories about the million dollars the Harris campaign spent on the “Unite for America” live-streaming event in Michigan that took place on September 19th which was hosted by TV talk show host/producer Oprah Winfrey. Though Winfrey’s production company, Harpo, has denied that she was paid any personal fees whatsoever from the Harris campaign or Harpo, the questions continue to swirl.
The list just goes on and on. Among other things, there was also the $100,000 paid to create the cringe “Call Her Daddy” podcast set and the reported $20 million Harris paid for the cross-country election-eve concerts, including the one in Pennsylvania that got blasted by the Philly Democrat Party chair the day after the election.
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And now, hot on the heels of the Winfrey allegations comes news of what the Harris campaign gave to the racist “Reverend” Al Sharpton, a former Democrat candidate for president himself and longtime host on MSNBC.
According to a new Free Beacon report, the Harris campaign donated to Sharpton’s organization, the National Action Network (NAN), two times prior to her October 20th interview with him, which was broadcast on MSNBC. What did she donate? $500,000:
Harris’s campaign gave two payments of $250,000 to National Action Network on Sept. 5 and Oct. 1, according to campaign finance records.
On Oct. 3, Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him happy birthday on his MSNBC weekend show, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton. “Happy birthday, Rev,” Harris said, using Sharpton’s nickname. “You have been over all of your years such an extraordinary leader. You have been a voice of truth, a voice of conscience.”
Sharpton, 70, conducted a glowing interview with Harris on Oct. 20 in which he touted her “extraordinary historic campaign” while referring to Trump as “hostile and erratic.” His questions lined up closely with messages that Harris sought to highlight on the campaign trail.
The below clip is just a small portion of that softball “interview”:
If you’re Kamala Harris and people are worried you might be too progressive, it’s probably not wise to go on MSNBC with Al Sharpton and let him put words in your mouth that you are, in fact, super progressive and soft on crime. pic.twitter.com/LzRo19l76A
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 21, 2024
Relatedly, here’s this flashback clip from her first failed presidential campaign in 2019, which should explain a lot about Harris, Sharpton, and her affinity for coddling notorious race hustlers:
Do these optics concern anyone? Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) w/ Al Sharpton, as Harris refuses to answer Qs about Smollett case. When the story 1st broke, Harris immediately called it an “attempted modern-day lynching.” Optics with Sharpton’s staging of the Tawana Brawley hoax? pic.twitter.com/lpVuUzHJOE
— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) February 21, 2019
But back to the financial contributions to NAN, we expect that a shameless hack like Sharpton wouldn’t reveal those donations ahead of his interview in the interest of full disclosure, but MSNBC should have known better.
In any event, this is just wild. I mean from start to finish, the Harris campaign literally had to pay handsomely to butter up influential people on their side for official endorsements and/or positive press coverage. As far as I’m concerned, if that’s not definitive proof of the fakeness and inauthenticity of her entire campaign (something we predicted it would be from the start) and political career, I don’t know what is.
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