Harris’ campaign blew $2.6 million on private jets in the final weeks of the campaign

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign spent $2.6 million on private jet travel to the finals, ending her presidential race – records show, bringing the total to her unsuccessful campaign on an environmentally friendly mode of transportation to $12 million. Reached.

As Harris’ team scrambled to host rallies across the country and boost turnout between October 1 and October 17, her campaign gave nearly $2.2 million to South Florida-based company Private Jet Services Group and $430,000 to Arlington . VA-based charter flight broker Advanced Aviation Team, according to Federal Election Commission data.

Dependence on private jets, which It is possible 14 times more pollution than commercial flights, flies in the face of their 2019 destruction—saying that global warming is an “existential threat” to humanity, as well Called on Americans to campaign to reduce their carbon emissions To stop global warming.

“There is a lot of hypocrisy in the words of Kamala Harris and many pro-climate leaders and the realities they need to understand are real,” Benji Backer, founder and executive chair of the American Conservation Coalition, told The Post.

“We need sensible solutions to environmental and climate issues, but we’re not going to get them when there’s so much hypocrisy coming from the elites that everyone else needs to change their lives except them.”

Private Jet Services Group Claim Its flights are completely carbon-neutral through its “recycling program” which reduces the jet’s carbon emissions. It is unclear whether Advanced Aviation offers a similar program or whether the Harris campaign purchased carbon offsets for its flights.

It’s possible that Team Harris’s private airfare tab could rise even higher, as the final tranche of campaign expense filings covering the final weeks of the presidential race have not yet been made public.

In recent days, the Harris campaign has been mocked and ridiculed for wasting a $1 billion war chest, including high-profile spending. millions of dollars Celebrity-filled events and a six-figure set design For her appearance on the podcast interview “Call Her Daddy”.

But The Post examined most of the campaign’s FEC filings and found that the campaign also committed wasteful spending:

• $12,097 on food delivery from Uber Eats and DoorDash since July
• At least $12,081 on ice cream pints and parlors like Sweet Lucy Ice Cream and Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream after President Biden was ousted from the top of the ticket.
• $6,000 for a “site fee” at the board game cafe Snacks & Lattes in Tempe, Arizona, where Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is stopped a campaign Pressuring college students to vote on election day.
• When Biden was still running for office, the room and catering charge at the posh, five-star Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, DE, was $62,772. A luxury king-bed room with a soaking tub currently costs $500 per night.
• $9,600 on food and drinks at the Pebble Bar near Rockefeller Center, including the famous Pete Davidson at the march, while Biden is still the Dem presidential nominee.

“No one should be surprised that Kamala Harris is not being sworn in on January 20,” GOP consultant Erin Perrin said.

“Instead of spreading the message, they wanted to have a party. It doesn’t work like that.”

The campaign additionally paid more than $5.6 million to 24 left-wing groups to help advance its agenda and energize voters – many of them black or Latino advocacy groups, or based in swing states where it Had lost.

Four groups benefiting from the campaign’s generosity – Washington, D.C.-based Voto Latino and Power Rising Action Fund, Brooklyn-based Make the Road Action Fund, and Hyattsville, MD-based CASA in Action – have also received a combined $8.4 million. Records show that since 2017, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.

Others include Al Sharpton’s nonprofit National Action Network, which received two payments totaling $500,000 from the campaign just weeks before Harris joined the civil rights leader on her MSNBC weekend show for a softball interview.

According to campaign finance records, the biggest winner in campaign spending in the 2024 election cycle was Media Buying & Analytics LLC, which took in more than $281 million in ad buying and production. The firm is a flagship company of Canal Media Partners, which is headed by former Georgia Democratic Party Chairman Bobby Khan, who previously worked for Uber and the gun reform advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, the newsletter Sludge. informed,

Despite the Harris campaign’s heavy spending, which aligned with interest groups The amount was $1.6 billionSince 2020, Trump has made gains in every state in the union except Washington as he moves toward election victory.

Meanwhile, Team Harris has somehow found itself 20 million dollar burden Deep in debt, angering Dems got down quickly Pointing fingers and demanding accountability.

“You’re looking at these seven-figure luxury costs and wondering, ‘Couldn’t this have been deployed to reach Hispanic males who listen to podcasts, or to reach suburban voters?’ And then you say, ‘Who’s making that decision?’ That doesn’t make any sense,” said Democratic strategist John Reinisch.

A Harris campaign spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.