Former Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) made a “handshake deal” after her massive defeat in the 2024 presidential election, which saw the party cover all of her outstanding campaign bills, according to a report.
Under the terms of the private agreement, the cash-strapped DNC paid off about $20.5 million in debts owed by the Harris campaign in exchange for the failed Democratic presidential nominee’s pledge to raise money for the Democratic Party to make the entity “whole financially,” the New York Times reported on Monday.
Federal Election Commission records show several six-figure sums the DNC has doled out to pollsters, printers, consultants, charter airlines and numerous event production companies, on behalf of Harris, since the presidential election.
One event production company, Freeman, has received nine separate payments from the DNC since last December, totaling about $3.5 million.