It's not hard to spot some important clues for why Harris lost a few extra votes that a candidate like Elissa Slotkin didn’t.

Working-class voters, people of color and immigrants voted in lower numbers or moved to Trump, and national party leaders ignored local organizers.

It was one of the high points in the early days of the Kamala Harris campaign, the honeymoon period where the vice president -- newly minted as the Democratic nominee -- was in "joyful warrior" mode: A sit-down with media icon Oprah Winfrey in Detroit.

Here's what we know about the claim that the vice president's campaign paid the television icon a sum of $1 million.