Democrats and liberal media are trying to recruit and pressure celebrities into endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to continue to breathe life into her mediocre campaign.
Democrats and their media allies had been dreaming of landing a presidential endorsement from Taylor Swift for some time before Tuesday’s debate, and Swift delivered it right after the debate ended. CNN’s Brian Stelter was one of many highlighting the celebrity endorsement and even pitching possible other celebrities for Democrats to chase based on who “liked” Swift’s post on Instagram, including WNBA star Caitlin Clark.
Sure enough, sports “journalists” have already tried to recruit Clark into endorsing Harris, pestering her about what posts she likes on Instagram at a pregame press conference. Clark declined and encouraged voters to think for themselves, as did NFL star Patrick Mahomes after “journalists” tried to get him to weigh in on the race. Liberal media have already obsessed over Mahomes’s wife liking a post about the 2024 GOP platform on Instagram. Actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson also said he wouldn’t be making an endorsement, as he felt his 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden helped fuel political divisions.
That is the entire point of why Democrats and liberal media typically chase celebrity endorsements and hound conservative celebrities and athletes into silence. The Left wants a cultural stranglehold that makes being a conservative or Republican seem unthinkable unless you actually know one in your personal life. It is the same reason conservative ideas have been pushed out of universities and “mainstream” media, two institutions that present liberalism as reality and conservativism as hateful “disinformation.”
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With Harris, though, there is an additional reason that the Left is desperate for these endorsements. Harris’s campaign is a shallow sprint to Election Day in which she has tried to erase her prior political positions, refuses to do unscripted events with the exception of one debate and one softball interview, and is focused only on maintaining her voter enthusiasm for her truncated campaign. That is difficult to do even in a shorter campaign, so Harris and her team are relying on celebrities such as Swift to keep the “joy” high and the good vibes going.
Harris makes the Democratic Party even more reliant on celebrities than it has been for the past two decades because she is utterly unremarkable as a candidate. Between that and the Democratic Party’s goal of erasing conservatism from public discussion, you have a campaign that is going to obsess over celebrities for another two months in hopes it will provide just enough momentum to drag Harris’s mediocre campaign over the finish line.
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