Kamala Harris is roasted for crowing how her presidential campaign raised $1.4bn through grass roots funds after she splashed the cash on celebrities and the Vegas sphere

Kamala Harris has been roasted for crowing however her statesmanlike run raised much than $1.4billion done writer roots funds aft splashing it connected personage appearances and an advertisement connected the Las Vegas sphere.

The Vice President boasted successful a video connection to her supporters that her run received a 'historic $1.4billion, astir $1.5billion' from writer roots supporters, which Harris said was 'the astir successful statesmanlike run history'.

'Nearly 8 cardinal donors contributed an mean donation of astir $56 to substance our people-powered campaign,' she added. 

But she has been criticised for however her run blowing done a cardinal dollars - with fingers being pointed astatine the celebrity-filled performance rallies successful swing states that took spot successful the last days of the run arsenic good arsenic costly advertisement campaigns. 

Top Democratic megadonor John Morgan, a affluent proceedings lawyer, fumed astir the spending spree successful an quality on Chris Cuomo's amusement 'CUOMO' connected NewsNation.

'All of a sudden, everybody's got the keys to the candy store, advertisement buyers, endowment consultants. There's 100 days to bash it, and the wealth started pouring in, pouring in,' helium said.

He bemoaned immoderate of the profligate spending decisions, similar lighting up the Las Vegas "Sphere" to the tune of $900,000, positive ad-buys successful his location authorities of Florida and wall-to-wall ads successful the unsuccessful bid to forestall Donald Trump's instrumentality to the White House.

He suggested sick motives for immoderate of the costs. 'She had each these consultants. And if you don't tally the ads, you don't get paid for the buy. Nine 100 1000 to enactment her look connected the sphere successful Las Vegas! The ego, the crazy, the commissions,' helium complained.

Other run expenses that person raised eyebrows person included up to $4million connected backstage jets, $1million to Oprah Winfrey's accumulation institution Harpo studios, $5,000 to a California nail artist, and more. She besides spent $654million connected advertising, according to AdImpact.

Legendary speech amusement big Winfrey is not the lone entertainer who received wealth from the Vice President successful the hopes of helping her statesmanlike campaign.

Harris reportedly spent six figures to physique retired the acceptable for her October quality connected the deed podcast 'Call Her Daddy', wherever she sat down with the show's big Alex Cooper.  

While Harris avoided the show's typically intersexual content, she spoke of her instrumentality connected termination rights and pupil indebtedness during the 7 infinitesimal beryllium down. 

According to a study by The Washington Examiner, her run had spent six figures connected gathering retired the acceptable of the podcast for her tiny appearance.  

The outlet besides reported that it was filmed wrong a edifice country successful Washington DC, with crews gathering retired the acceptable to imitate Cooper's existent acceptable successful Los Angeles. 

The Harris run besides paid fractional a cardinal dollars to a non-profit founded by longtime on-air property the Rev. Al Sharpton conscionable earlier helium interviewed her, which reportedly blindsided cablegram quality web MSNBC.

The donations that flowed successful conscionable earlier the New York activist's speech with Harris person brought up questions astir the quality outlet's credibility. 

The National Action Network, a civilian rights non-profit that was founded by Sharpton successful 1991, received $500,000 from the Harris run conscionable weeks earlier the MSNBC big conducted a highly-anticipated sit-down with the Democrat. 

Campaign concern records from the 60-year-old's run uncover that 2 abstracted payments went to National Action Network.  One outgo for $250,000 was sent to the non-profit connected Sept. 5 and different for the aforesaid magnitude was sent connected Oct. 1. 

The softball interrogation with Sharpton occurred connected Oct. 20, conscionable weeks aft the 2nd payment. 

MSNBC is wide known to beryllium a liberal-leaning channel, and the information that 1 of its apical talents took successful a immense magnitude of currency conscionable earlier a consequential interrogation has caused backlash from journalists who accidental the outlet's present got a 'black eye.'

During the rosy interview, the MSNBC big lavishly praised Harris' 'extraordinary historical campaign' portion simultaneously decrying Donald Trump arsenic 'hostile and erratic.'  

The spending spree was each portion of a run that relied connected large rallies, predominant trips to plaything states, and nary tiny measurement of personage and enactment from A-list musicians and actors. 

Now, successful the aftermath of her defeat, her run continues to nonstop retired a drawstring of solicitations to rise wealth to effort to wage disconnected a run indebtedness reported to beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic $20 million. 

Harris said successful her video to supporters that her 'fight for freedom, for opportunity, included 'almost four million first-time contributors to our campaign'.

'I conscionable person to punctual you, don't you ever fto anybody instrumentality your powerfulness from you. You person the aforesaid powerfulness that you did earlier November 5th,' Harris said successful the video connection posted to X, referencing the day of the statesmanlike election that she mislaid to President-elect Donald Trump. 

In the past 3 weeks, Trump has gotten his modulation going by naming a flurry of Cabinet appointees. 

Harris, successful the meantime, had decamped to Hawaii for a post-election-loss abrogation and past arrived successful the Bay Area Monday to walk Thanksgiving interruption among family. 

She was dressed successful work-wear for the video successful what appeared to beryllium a surviving country and looked bleary-eyes arsenic she delivered the 28-second message.

'And you person the aforesaid intent that you did. And you person the aforesaid quality to prosecute and inspire,' she continued. 'So don't ever fto anybody oregon immoderate condition instrumentality your powerfulness from you.' 

Harris and her husband, 2nd man Doug Emhoff, spent six days astatine a $1,300-a-night abrogation spot connected Hawaii's large island, seldom venturing retired successful public, DailyMail.com reported connected Monday. 

The location was a 5,200 sq. ft, five-bedroom spot owned by a scion of the Mondavi vino family. 

And according to the online listing, the rental included 'three complimentary bottles of Mondavi household vino with each reservation.'