Kamala Harris' campaign spent a staggering $12 million on private jet travel while campaigning for her failed presidential bid against Donald Trump. The vice president's team shelled out $2.6 million on the environmentally damaging mode of transportation in the final weeks of the campaign alone.
Harris campaign spent $2.6 million on private jet in final weeks of campaign Harris has received major flak for her multi-million-dollar spending, as private jets can be up to 14 times more polluting than commercial flights. “Kamala Harris and a lot of pro-climate leaders have a lot of hypocrisy with the words that they state and the realities they must think are real,” Benji Backer, founder and executive chairman of the American Conservation Coalition, told New York Post.
“We need sensible solutions on environment and climate issues, but we’re not going to get them when there’s so much hypocrisy coming from the elitists that everyone else needs to change their lives except for them,” Backer added. Harris' failed presidential bid, which included glitzy rallies featuring appearances and concerts from A-listers like Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga, has been dubbed a “$1 billion disaster.” Last week, Democratic National Committee's Women's co-chair Lindy Li tore into Harris, calling her presidential run an “epic disaster.
” Li called out campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon for “misleading” Democrats into believing Harris would win. “She even put videos out saying Har.
