Democratic Firms Cashed In On Harris’ Failed Campaign

Andrew Kerr of the Washington Free Beacon reports on Democratic groups that profited from Kamala Harris’ election loss.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign directed nearly $600 million to just four media consulting firms with deep ties to the Democratic establishment, Federal Election Commission records show.

The latest available FEC data show the Harris campaign exceeded $880 million in total spending as of October 16, though that number is expected to balloon to $1.5 billion after the Harris campaign files its post-election FEC report on December 5. Seventy percent of the campaign’s known total spending flowed through four firms: Media Buying & Analytics, Gambit Strategies, Bully Pulpit Interactive, and Dupont Circle Strategies.

Together, these four Democratic firms were largely responsible for distributing Harris’s campaign messaging across the nation—an effort that ultimately saw Harris lose all seven swing states and the popular vote but directed huge sums of donor money the firms’ way.A little-known Atlanta-based firm founded in May 2019, Media Buying & Analytics was the top-earning contractor for the Harris campaign, raking in an astonishing $281 million for ad production and placement services as of October 16, FEC records show.

If Media Buying & Analytics had its way, its work for the Harris campaign would have been conducted entirely from the shadows. Media Buying & Analytics doesn’t have a website, its business is registered to a law office in Atlanta, and the Harris campaign’s checks to the company were made out to a UPS store in the city. …

… Gambit Strategies came in a distant second in Harris campaign contractor payments, bringing in $122 million from the vice president’s campaign for media production and placement services.

Founded in 2021, Gambit Strategies was a natural fit for the Harris campaign. One of its founding partners, Megan Clasen, was a senior paid media adviser to Biden’s 2020 campaign, during which she claims to have executed “the largest digital ads program ever run by a Democratic campaign.” Prior to that, Clasen led digital advertising efforts for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.