US Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign shelled out $4.03 million (AUD) on private jet travel in the final, dying gasps of her presidential run — bringing her failed campaign’s total tally on the environmentally unfriendly mode of transportation to a staggering $18.6 million, records show.
As Harris’ team desperately shuttled across the nation to host rallies and coax voter turnout between Oct. 1 and Oct. 17, her campaign ponied up nearly $3.
41 million to the south Florida-based company Private Jet Services Group, along with $668,500 to Arlington, Va.-based charter flight broker Advanced Aviation Team, according to Federal Election Commission data. The reliance on private jets, which can be up to 14 times more polluting than commercial flights, flies in the face of her 2019 doom-saying that global warming is an “existential threat” to humanity, as well as calls on the campaign trail for Americans to reduce their carbon emissions to stop global warming.
“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,” said Benji Backer, founder and executive chairman of the American Conservation Coalition. “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.” Private Jet Service Group claims its flights are all .
