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Price tag for Oprah’s Kamala Harris event wasn’t $1M — it was WAY more, numbers reveal
BPR ^ | 11/18/24 | Tom Tillison

Posted on 11/18/2024 9:37:43 AM PST by DallasBiff

Turns out, Oprah Winfrey’s buy-in on failed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris wasn’t as cheap as originally advertised.

When it was first revealed that the Harris campaign, which spent $1.6 billion on her failed bid and is reportedly $20 million in debt, paid millions of dollars to essentially buy the support of a number of top-tier entertainers, Oprah was quick to deny reports that she was paid $1 million — the billionaire media proprietor held a September town hall with Harris and appeared at Harris’ final campaign rally in Philadelphia.

While Winfrey acknowledged that her Harpo Productions staff was paid by the Harris campaign, she did not set the record straight on how much that amounted to. Thanks to the New York Times, we now learn that according to two people familiar with the matter, the full payout for the town hall was closer to $2.5 million.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2024election; election2024; kamala; oprah; oprahwinfrey; trump
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To: Who is John Galt?; Red Badger
..being Democrats, they will forget it all in 4 years...

The Democrats I know will forget it all in 4 days...

The democrats I know will won't even understand what it means. No need to forget it.

41 posted on 11/18/2024 1:18:24 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: Leaning Right
"Spend $1.6 billion to put lipstick on a pig, and you’ve still got a pig."


42 posted on 11/18/2024 2:08:35 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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