# Blakeman campaign paid millions to AfD-linked ad firm and convicted fraudster

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/jewish-gop-hopeful-bruce-blakeman-pays-millions-to-agency-behind-far-right-german-party-ad-campaign-and-11k-to-fraudster-who-went-to-prison/
- Published: 2026-10-30T11:12:59+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-30T11:23:17+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/us-politics/article-16240777/Bruce-Blakeman-New-York-Governor-AfD-fraudster-nationalist.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Art, Culture, Elections, Geopolitics, Politics, World

## Key points

- Blakeman’s campaign paid Harris Media more than $4.2 million.
- The agency worked on AfD advertising in 2017.
- A firm founded by a convicted fraudster received over $11,600.

## Summary

Bruce Blakeman’s New York gubernatorial campaign paid more than $4.2 million to Harris Media, an advertising agency that worked on Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) campaign in 2017. The payments have drawn attention because the AfD is a far-right party and the agency’s past work included an ad portraying then-chancellor Angela Merkel as a terrorist.

The campaign also paid more than $11,600 to Better Mousetrap Digital, a fundraising firm founded by Jack Daly, who was sentenced in 2023 to four months in prison for fraud involving a political action committee. Daly’s scheme raised more than $1.6 million by falsely suggesting a Wisconsin sheriff might run for the US Senate; prosecutors said he targeted vulnerable donors, including elderly veterans and a woman with Alzheimer’s. Blakeman is a Trump-backed Republican and is running against Democratic governor Kathy Hochul, whose re-election contest is rated Democratic leaning by the Cook Political Report.

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