by Hailey Gomez, All News Pipeline:
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign appears to have set their focus on fundraising and celebrity sit-downs, raking in millions through the help of Hollywood and big money donors.
Support for Vice President Kamala Harris skyrocketed after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid on July 21 and endorsed her. Donors who had withheld funds under Biden and celebrities questioning his mental fitness quickly rallied around Harris, dramatically boosting her image.
Less than a day after Biden’s exit, the Democracy Alliance — a group of left-leaning donors that has raised over $2 billion for liberal causes — threw its support behind Harris. In her first official month as the nominee, Harris’ campaign raised $361 million in August, more than doubling former President Donald Trump’s haul for the same month.
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Harris made her first appearance in the Los Angeles area since announcing her campaign on Sunday, hosting a fundraiser with tickets starting at $500 per person and rising to $1 million, according to Deadline. With celebrities like Stevie Wonder, Demi Lovato, Jessica Alba and Lily Tomlin in attendance, the event in combination with another San Francisco fundraiser raked in an estimated $55 million for the vice president’s campaign, Spectrum News 1 reported.
“We just see the same old tired show from the same old tired playbook,” Harris stated at the Los Angeles fundraiser, the outlet reported.
Former Obama fundraiser Allison Huynh told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Hollywood and Big Tech have long pushed candidates as a “aspirational luxury ticket,” recalling how former President Barack Obama was “adopted” by the two major groups.
“They market their candidates as, like I said, an aspirational luxury ticket item. I was interested in Obama because there were a lot of young people who supported him … he spoke to folks who were new to politics or disenfranchised with the divisiveness of politics,” Huynh said. “But then quickly Obama was adopted by Oprah, by P. Diddy, the royalty of Beverly Hills, I believe even Harvey Weinstein under the guise of social justice … Obama became the puppet for the Hollywood and tech elite. That’s what I saw.”
Despite strong Hollywood support for Harris, Trump has received backing from celebrities like Kid Rock, Zachary Levi, Dennis Quaid and billionaire Elon Musk. In June, a Silicon Valley fundraiser for Trump raised an estimated $12 million, surpassing the amount expected from the typically left-wing circle, according to Craft Ventures co-founder David Sacks.
Since the first presidential debate against Trump on Sept. 10, Harris has made campaign appearances in North Carolina, Wisconsin and Georgia, while conducting just four short interviews with 6ABC Philadelphia Action News, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle and a sit-down with celebrity Oprah Winfrey as celebrities like Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Stiller and Chris Rock virtually attended. (RELATED: Kamala Harris Struggles To Speak After Teleprompter Appears To Stop Working)
Former Democratic fundraiser Evan Barker spoke with the DCNF about the apparent disengagement in Harris’ strategy of speaking to the wealthy and famous instead of a more concerted effort to spend time with regular voters.
“You know, I think what was really telling — I’m sure you saw the Oprah Winfrey rally … That, to me, was just absolutely repulsive. I just saw a bunch of celebrities zooming in from their mansions or their hotel suites and basically just talking about Kamala Harris’s identity or just making sort of like these very generic platitudes about hope, joy and integrity and not really discussing the like actual state of the economy and how working Americans are really, really hurting right now,” Barker said.
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