Hollywood celebrities are lining up to support Kamala Harris in the final stages of the election cycle, providing her campaign with a wealth of free publicity, social media influence, and positive media coverage. There is.
But as ordinary Americans continue to suffer from record high consumer prices, one of Kamala Harris' biggest allies in the media is calling out her coziness with wealthy stars. It's ringing.
NBC News ran Wednesday's article warned that the party could be making big mistakes this election year.
“Soliciting celebrity endorsements is a long-standing tradition in presidential politics, and it's usually something Democrats win,” NBC News reporter Matt Dixon said. “But in the process, Democrats could be open to easy attack from Republicans, who are pandering to Hollywood rather than average Americans.”
Former President Donald Trump's campaign seized the opportunity to point out the socio-economic disconnect.
“Patriots, Comrade Kamala is assembling the radical left dream team,” Trump wrote in a fundraising email last week after Harris' interview with Oprah Winfrey. “She has Hollywood hacks like Oprah Winfrey and Jamie Lee Curtis and has raised millions of dollars for campaigns.”
Like many of her campaigns, Kamala Harris' affinity for celebrity has been inconsistent and sometimes contradictory.
Just before the Democratic National Convention in August, reports say his campaign wants to keep Hollywood celebrity attendance to a minimum to avoid accusations of elitism that plagued Hillary Clinton's ill-fated 2016 run. flowed.
Still, Oprah Winfrey and Pink played an important role at this year's DNC.
Kamala Harris has begun to lean more toward celebrity, welcoming celebrity endorsements and star power as voters look to her for substance rather than high praise.
She sat down with Winfrey for a television special in which she detailed record-high consumer prices, an unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants and other issues weighing on voters. I couldn't do that.
And while she has touted recent endorsements from Taylor Swift and Jennifer Lawrence, polls show a majority of voters don't care about Taylor Swift's political views. has been done.
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