The campaign staff of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, who lost the US presidential election, fears they will not be paid amid rumors that the vice president’s campaign is around $20 million in debt from concerts. campaign, the pro-Republican New York Times reports, citing the Harris campaign. staff.
According to the newspaper, the day before the election, on October 4, the Harris campaign organized concerts in seven swing states, where artists as famous as Jon Bon Jovi, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry AND Lady GagaIn addition, a television presenter performed at one of the concerts. Oprah Winfrey.
“Recriminations arose when Kamala Harris’ campaign spent up to $20 million on concerts in swing states… raising concerns that frontline staff and vendors would not be paid amid reports that the campaign is in debt for the same amount.” – write the post.
As sources told the newspaper, these concerts caused a significant hole in the wallet of the Democratic headquarters, something that was not a secret to anyone. They were supposed to encourage more voters to go to the polls and cast their ballots, but as a result, these concerts went largely unnoticed in the general news flow.
According to the publication, a week before the election, Harris’s campaign managers discovered that more than a billion dollars raised for the campaign had been exhausted and tried to reduce concert expenses, but failed. In some cases, on the contrary, the cost of holding events has increased.
According to the newspaper’s sources, so far Harris’ staff and suppliers are paid regularly, but people are worried.
A source told the New York Post that funds intended for the concerts were wasted because millions of voters had already cast their ballots early. Additionally, the source estimates that voters are more concerned about their own financial problems than about celebrity stories that “America will cease to exist.”
Previously, the Financial Times reported that the last election was the most expensive in US history. So the Republican candidate donald trump and his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris spent a total of $3.5 billion on their campaigns. As the newspaper notes, Harris’ campaign managed to raise more funds than Trump: $2.3 billion versus $1.8 billion, RIA Novosti recalls.
