Oprah's full price tag for Kamala Harris event is finally revealed

Kamala Harris's run paid much than treble what was antecedently thought to Oprah Winfrey arsenic Democrats proceed to fundraise past the predetermination aft going into indebtedness to tally a statesmanlike bid.

Reports emerged that Harris's run paid Winfrey's Harpo Productions $1 million arsenic portion of a precise pricey and abbreviated tally for the White House.

But now, the New York Times reports that 2 radical acquainted with the substance uncover the afloat terms of the lawsuit with Winfrey outgo person to $2.5 million.

Overall, Harris' run spent a whopping $100 cardinal per week during her precise condensed statesmanlike run, which began successful precocious July.

And supporters of the vice president are inactive being flooded with requests for donations aft her extravagant $1.6 cardinal run fund near the Democratic Party with $20 cardinal successful debt.

The indulgent spending has caused broader concerns and heightened scrutiny implicit however Democrats take to walk run funds considering it spent implicit the monolithic warfare thorax it had and inactive didn't travel adjacent to winning.

President-elect Donald Trump bushed Harris with 312 Electoral College votes, a borderline of triumph not seen since the 1988 election.

The 2024 predetermination besides saw Republicans maintaining power successful the House of Representatives and retaking a bulk successful the Senate – springiness the GOP a trifecta of authorities travel 2025, arsenic good arsenic a six-to-three blimpish bulk successful the Supreme Court.

A fewer expenditures of Harris' run included astir $9,000 toward crystal pick purchases from high-end shops similar Sweet Lucy's Ice Cream and Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams.

The run reportedly allocated astir $15,000 connected nutrient transportation services specified arsenic Uber Eats and DoorDash from July done the extremity of the contention successful aboriginal November.

Some of the higher spending went towards things similar influencer partnerships and paying celebrities to look and execute astatine her events.

There was besides astir $1 cardinal – $900,000 – spent to reserve advertisement abstraction connected Las Vegas' Sphere successful the last week of the election.

Harris' run besides spent $2.6 cardinal successful backstage pitchy question during a two-week blitz of battleground states successful October.

Winfrey was paid $2.5 cardinal for her accumulation steadfast holding a municipality hallway with Harris successful September.

Campaign concern laws forestall businesses from providing services to campaigns astatine below-market rates.

The tv property insisted she did not pouch immoderate of the funds, but paid her squad and charged for what the run needed for the event. 

'I was not paid a dime,' Winfrey wrote successful an Instagram comment.

'For the live-streaming lawsuit successful September, my accumulation institution Harpo was asked to bring successful acceptable design, lights, cameras, crew, producers and each different point indispensable (including the benches and the chairs we sat on) to enactment connected a unrecorded production. I did not instrumentality immoderate idiosyncratic fee,' she added.

'However, the radical who worked connected that accumulation needed to beryllium paid. And were. End of story.'

The fewer twelve cardinal spent connected different personage events included Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Katy Perry and galore more.

The effectiveness of personage endorsements and performances is present coming into question considering Harris' star-studded and pricey run and her definitive loss.

Trump, connected the different hand, gained a important magnitude of publicity and viewership by appearing connected podcasts for escaped – including tens of millions of listens and views connected the world's astir fashionable podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.