REPORT: Oprah Winfrey Was Paid STAGGERING $1M For Kamala Harris Endorsement

How did the Kamala Harris campaign blow through a billion dollars in donations and wind up with $20 MILLION in debt?

Well, $1 million of that appears to have been used to buy Oprah Winfrey’s support, and maybe even her “coveted” endorsement.

According to reports and FEC filings, Oprah Winfrey was paid two separate payments of $500M by the Kamala Harris campaign — just after her star-studded townhall with Kamala Harris.

Take a look:

🇺🇸KAMALA PAID OPRAH $1M IN DOOMED CAMPAIGN

Kamala's $1.2 billion presidential campaign floundered despite high-profile boosts, including a $1M payment to Oprah for a town hall.

Celeb-filled events and costly podcast appearances drained funds, outpacing Trump's $750M budget.… pic.twitter.com/uRUfILmJei

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 11, 2024

Oprah got paid $1 million dollars to endorse Kamala.
America wasn’t impressed because intelligent people can see through the smoke screen.

Take away the money, and all you have left is evil child trafficking garbage! 👇 pic.twitter.com/rzth4piEmd

— 🇺🇸Kelli Kay🇺🇸 (@KelliKayK) November 11, 2024

More details from Fox News:

Vice President Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions $1 million, just one example of millions the campaign spent on various entertainers during the vice president’s failed bid for president.

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The Harris campaign paid $1 million to Winfrey’s company on October 15, according to a report in the Washington Examiner, coming after a star-studded town hall that Winfrey hosted for the vice president in September.

Winfrey also appeared at Harris’ final rally in Philadelphia on the eve of Election Day, with the talk-show star offering a rare endorsement of a presidential candidate.

“We’re voting for values and integrity,” Winfrey said at the rally. “We’re voting for healing over hate.”

Now, Oprah herself has denied that she was paid anything by the Harris campaign.

Watch her response here:

Oprah Winfrey is asked if she was paid for her endorsement of Kamala Harris for president.

Winfrey denied ever being paid, but FEC filings say she received two payments of $500k each.

Why would she deny this? pic.twitter.com/Mk66dFl7mE

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) November 12, 2024

Variety reported:

Oprah Winfrey was never “paid a personal fee” by Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, according to her production banner Harpo Productions. The statement comes as a denial of a rumor that Winfrey was paid $1 million by the campaign, which had been reported by some outlets.

“The campaign paid for the production costs of ‘Unite for America,’ a live-streaming event that took place Sept. 19 outside Detroit, Mich.,” a spokesperson for Harpo shared in a statement. “Oprah Winfrey was at no point during the campaign paid a personal fee, nor did she receive a fee from Harpo.”

We have the receipts, Oprah!

And, Oprah wasn’t the only celebrity Kamala dished out the big bucks to.

MKTruthUltra broke it down:

Kamala Harris’ paid the following ‘Super Stars’ for their support

$10 Million to Beyoncé
$5 million to Megan Thee Stallion
$2.3 Million to Lizzo
$1.8 million for Eminem
$1 million for Oprah

She also Paid 6 figures to appear on the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast

They thought the… pic.twitter.com/xDSJM1mt9d

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) November 11, 2024

Jesus Christ.

What a miserable fail.

I have to ask: did they really think this was going to work?

Here’s more on how the Kamala Harris campaign blew through more than a billion dollars, and still lost the election, from The Washington Examiner:

In October, weeks before the 2024 election, the word was out: Vice President Kamala Harris had fundraised north of $1 billion. The haul, the New York Times reported upon breaking the news, was historic because of the short period of time, just three months, that it flooded in.

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It was ultimately no use. On Tuesday, Donald Trump made history and became only the second former president to win a nonconsecutive term. After surviving two assassination attempts on the campaign trail, Trump dominated Harris in battleground states to emerge as the president-elect. And he did so with far less cash.

The story of how Harris pocketed record sums while failing to gain support from voters will be studied by campaigns for decades to come. Democrats who successfully pressured octogenarian President Joe Biden to pass the torch to the former California senator are now conducting an internal autopsy of the 2024 race, in which Trump raised and spent hundreds of millions of dollars less than Harris.

“A billion dollars paled in comparison to the increased prices Americans were seeing across the country,” Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch and a longtime Trump ally, told the Washington Examiner. “Voters weren’t fooled.”

The Harris campaign and its affiliated committees dropped more than $654 million on advertising from July 22 to Election Day, whereas Trump spent $378 million, or 57% less, in the same category, according to data from AdImpact…

“Event production” was also a staple spending area of the Harris campaign, which notably hosted a star-studded lineup of musicians from Lady Gaga to Katy Perry for an election eve rally.

The campaign paid more than $15 million, according to federal filings, to companies for such services.

There was $1 million for Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions on Oct. 15 in West Hollywood, California.

Winfrey, a top Harris ally, appeared at a town hall with the vice president in September and was at her final rally in Philadelphia before Election Day.

Viva Creative, a marketing agency that has touted its work with Oprah, comedian Trevor Noah, the Washington Nationals baseball team, and American Express, scooped up $1.8 million from the Harris campaign for event production from September to October. A company called Production Management One in Maryland received $1.7 million, with large payments also going to Vox Productions, Temple University, Wizard Studios North, the Park Hyatt Chicago, and other entities for event production, filings show.

Then there was Majic Productions, a Wisconsin-based company, which has worked the NBA playoffs, the Super Bowl, and at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The Harris campaign paid that company $2.3 million.

A source familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner that the Harris campaign spent six figures on building a set for Harris’s appearance on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast with host Alex Cooper. The interview came out in October and was reportedly filmed in a hotel room in Washington, D.C.