Kamala Harris interviewers received large campaign donations to their groups ahead of sit-downs

Vice President Kamala Harris' run reportedly gave ample amounts of wealth to organizations tally by media figures successful the weeks earlier sitting down for interviews with them.

FEC filings, archetypal reported by the Washington Free Beacon, amusement the Harris run gave 2 $250,000 donations to Rev. Al Sharpton’s nonprofit enactment successful September and October.

Harris sat down for a friendly interview with the MSNBC big connected October 20, successful which helium asked her what she wanted her bequest to be, 50 years from now.

Sharpton wasn't the lone media state that received a outgo from the run to his enactment up of their sit-down interview, a bombshell New York Times study revealed.

Rev. Al Sharpton compared Harris to erstwhile congresswoman Shirley Chisholm successful their affable sit-down interview. (MSNBC screenshot)

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The run besides gave a $350,000 outgo to Nu Vision Media connected September 9, according to FEC filings archetypal reported by the Times.

Nu Vision Media is simply a media institution tally by writer Roland Martin. Martin spent astir 30 minutes interviewing Harris connected his streaming programme successful October.

The former CNN contributor told the Times the outgo was for advertising.

"It should person been a hellhole of a batch more," helium said, according to the report. "More should person been spent connected Black-owned media." 

The Kamala Harris 2024 run reportedly gave 2 $250,000 donations to National Action Network, the enactment led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, up of her sit-down with the MSNBC host.

According to the Free Beacon, the Harris run gave $5.4 cardinal to Black and Latino advocacy groups successful her effort to adhd much of these voters to her coalition.

News of these expenditures comes arsenic the Harris run faces expanding scrutiny implicit its $1.5 cardinal spending spree during her abbreviated statesmanlike campaign. 

The Times study besides recovered that star-studded predetermination eve rallies outgo the run implicit $10 million. While the singers were not paid, the enactment unit was, the study said.

The run also made 2 $500,000 payments to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions connected Oct. 15, a period aft Winfrey's municipality hallway with Harris and weeks earlier the brace appeared astatine a Harris Philadelphia rally, FEC filings show.

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U.S. shaper and histrion Oprah Winfrey holds up US Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris' manus arsenic she get onstage during a run rally connected the Benjamin Franklin Parkway successful Philadelphia, Pa., connected November 4, 2024.  (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The afloat terms of the lawsuit with Winfrey was person to $2.5 million, Harris allies told the Times.

A Harpo Productions spokesperson acknowledged to Variety that the institution took wealth from the run but claimed it was for "production costs."

The Harris run did not instantly instrumentality a petition for remark to Fox News Digital.

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Fox News' Stepheny Price contributed to this article.