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

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From the Washington Free Beacon: Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign donated $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s nonprofit organization just weeks before the anti-Semitic MSNBC host—who once said that “diamond merchant” Jews have the “blood of innocent babies” on their hands—conducted a friendly interview with Harris.

The campaign’s remittance to Sharpton’s National Action Network was part of a flurry of donations—$5.4 million in all—to black and Latino advocacy groups that seem aimed at winning Harris support from those constituencies. Harris’s campaign gave two payments of $250,000 to National Action Network on Sept. 5 and Oct. 1, according to campaign finance records.

On Oct. 3, Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him happy birthday on his MSNBC weekend show, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton. “Happy birthday, Rev,” Harris said, using Sharpton’s nickname. “You have been over all of your years such an extraordinary leader. You have been a voice of truth, a voice of conscience.”

Sharpton, 70, conducted a glowing interview with Harris on Oct. 20 in which he touted her “extraordinary historic campaign” while referring to Trump as “hostile and erratic.” His questions lined up closely with messages that Harris sought to highlight on the campaign trail. Sharpton addressed concerns among black voters—especially black men—about Harris’s record as a prosecutor in California, where she was given the nickname “Kamala the Cop.” Sharpton brought up Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, and one of Harris’s personal heroes, to put Harris’s candidacy in historical perspective. Sharpton asked Harris whether men who opposed her were “misogynistic.”

The Harris-Walz campaign, which ended up with over $20 million in debt, relied heavily on celebrities, influencers, and other high-profile supporters to try to win over voters.

Included in the campaign’s wild $1 billion spending spree included the following payoffs:

  • $1 million to the production company of Oprah Winfrey
  • Paid six-figure sum to create a set for Harris’s interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
  • $2 million to the National Urban League
  • $150,000 to the Black Economic Alliance
  • $150,000 to Black Church PAC
  • $30,000 to Haitian Ladies Fund
  • $150,000 to International Free and Accepted Modern Masons, a black freemasons organization
  • $275,000 to Vote to Live Action Fund, who launched a $4 million initiative in October to pressure black men to vote.
  • $120,000 to Casa in Action
  • $105,000 to Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
  • $120,000 to Somos Votantes

In another big payoff, the New York Times reported that the Harris-Walz campaign also made a $350,000 payment to Nu Vision Media on September 9, based on FEC filings.

Fox News explained: Nu Vision Media is a media company run by journalist Roland Martin. Martin spent roughly 30 minutes interviewing Harris on his streaming program in October.

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