Debt-ridden Harris campaign spent $2.6 million on private flights for staff in October: FEC documents

Vice President Harris' debt-ridden statesmanlike run spent $2.6 cardinal connected backstage flights successful the past fewer weeks of the predetermination season, documents show.

The merchandise of the findings comes arsenic the debt-saddled campaign, which spent $1 billion connected the trail, is being scrutinized for the fiscal decisions it made earlier losing the Nov. 5 predetermination to President-elect Trump. The run is believed to beryllium $20 cardinal successful debt.

The eyebrow-raising expenses were listed successful a Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing obtained by Fox News Digital. According to the FEC filing, successful the period of October alone, the Harris run spent $2,626,110 connected backstage flights. 

The costs ranged from $3,500 to $940,000 per disbursement, with $2.2 cardinal going to a institution named Private Jet Services Group, portion $430,000 went to Advanced Aviation Team, a charter formation broker.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic statesmanlike nominee, speaks during a run rally successful Charlotte, N.C., Nov. 2.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

In September, run unit spent $3.1 cardinal connected backstage flights, which brings the flight-related disbursal full to much than $10 cardinal since July.

The expenditures are conscionable a fewer of respective fiscal decisions for which the run has been intensely scrutinized. For example, Harris' squad paid Oprah Winfrey's accumulation institution $1 cardinal aft the TV prima spoke astatine a rally Oct. 15. 

Harris staffers besides gave $4 cardinal to Village Marketing Agency, a institution that connects clients with societal media influencers. Additionally, FEC records amusement the run spent astatine slightest $15 cardinal connected "event production."

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Second man Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden onstage astatine the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago Aug. 19.  (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The campaign's usage of backstage jets has been criticized successful caller weeks for some fiscal and biology reasons. Private jets emit much greenhouse gases per rider than commercialized flights do, and Harris antecedently said climate change was an "existential threat."

"There’s nary question we person to beryllium practical. But being applicable besides recognizes that clime alteration is an existential menace to america arsenic quality beings," Harris told CNN successful 2019. "Being applicable recognizes that greenhouse state emissions are threatening our aerial and threatening the satellite and that it is good wrong our capableness arsenic quality beings to alteration our behaviors successful a mode that we tin trim its effects."

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic statesmanlike nominee, speaks during a run rally successful Greenville, N.C., Oct. 13. (Alex Wong)

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Fox News Digital reached retired to the Harris run for comment.

Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller and Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.