Kamala Harris 'needs more than Taylor Swift and Beyonce' to help her become US President

If the 2024 US predetermination were to beryllium won by Hollywood endorsements, Kamala Harris would locomotion into the White House with the Oscar for “best personage campaign.”

However, with voters heading to the ballot container successful conscionable 8 days (eight days connected Monday), her rival, Donald Trump, is inactive favoured by immoderate pollsters to retake the Oval Office.

US governmental watcher Patrick Finn told the Mirror that though Harris had “obliterated” her Republican rival successful the personage race, she inactive had overmuch to bash if she wants to go America’s archetypal pistillate president.

“Historically, Hollywood endorsements person done small to sway nationalist opinion. They person hardly touched the dial,” helium said. But successful the world we present unrecorded in, with societal media carrying truthful overmuch weight, the 2024 contention could beryllium the archetypal clip we spot personage power marque a difference.

“With that said, arsenic we adjacent the last hurdle, unless Harris starts making up mislaid crushed connected Trump and accelerated successful presumption of existent policies, she could person immoderate endorsement she wishes, it volition not beryllium capable to get her successful the Oval Office. She needs to archer the American radical however a presidency nether her volition enactment wealth successful their pockets. Trump is up successful that area.”

Harris hopes her amassed A-list coalition, featuring euphony icons similar Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Cher, Cardi B, and John Legend, could beryllium the quality successful this razor-thin race.

Such prima power, including Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro and Jennifer Lawrence, has painted her run arsenic a who’s-who of the amusement industry, showcasing enactment from taste heavyweights with large power crossed property groups and genres.

Beyoncé has lent her almighty anthem, “Freedom”, to the Democratic campaign. She appeared connected Friday astatine a rally successful Houston, joined by her mother, Tina Knowles, and chap Texan Willie Nelson. Swift has endorsed Harris connected societal media, calling her a “steady-handed” person to 552 cardinal followers.

The singer’s endorsement has energised her instrumentality base, with hers known Swifties and Beyonce’s arsenic Beyhives, expected to crook retired powerfully astatine the ballot container successful enactment of the Democrat, providing a monolithic boost among important pistillate voters. Cher and John Legend person besides voiced support, with Legend emphasising the stakes of the election, portion Springsteen and Eminem precocious rallied alongside erstwhile President Obama to backmost Harris.

The existent Vice President’s raft of endorsers is conscionable arsenic awesome successful Hollywood. Actors similar Sarah Jessica Parker, George Clooney, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jennifer Aniston person besides each rallied for her, with Clooney highlighting her quality to pb with empathy and span governmental divides.

Parker adjacent posted a photograph of a Harris motion successful her window. On the different hand, Trump’s database of personage supporters is, by contrast, a satellite distant from existent superstars and tends to skew toward nostalgic figures with niche appeal. Elon Musk has emerged arsenic 1 of the erstwhile president’s biggest supporters, controversially donating $1 cardinal a time to swing-state voters.

However, Musk’s power remains polarising, particularly among mainstream voters. Fallen Hollywood prima Mel Gibson, who made headlines for a bigoted and sexist rant during a postulation stop, is perchance 1 the highest-profile backers of Trump. When asked astatine an airdrome past week who helium is voting for, the Lethal Weapon histrion replied: “I don’t deliberation it’s going to astonishment anyone who I ballot for.”

“I’m going to conjecture Trump,” helium was asked. “I deliberation that’s a beauteous bully guess,” Gibson replied without endorsing the Republican by name. When past asked astir Harris, helium said: “Appalling way record. No policies to talk of. And she’s got the IQ of a obstruction post.”

Trump’s different personage endorsers see ageing taste icons similar actors Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight, and Roseanne Barr, wrestlers Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker, stone prima Kid Rock, and UFC president Dana White - figures fashionable among his MAGA base. Although the figures resonate with Trump’s established audience, they don’t transportation the aforesaid taste value oregon relevance arsenic Harris’s diversion endorsers.

On the sporting front, again, the erstwhile president has struggled. He has a smattering of existent and erstwhile NFL players, boxing promotor Don King and Mike Tyson. Meanwhile, the VP’s “Athletes for Harris” initiative, launched successful September, has drawn endorsements from NBA fable Magic Johnson, tennis icon Billie Jean King, Golden State Warriors hoops caput manager Steve Kerr, and prima subordinate Steph Curry.

The contrasts successful personage and sporting enactment underscore antithetic dynamics successful each campaign. Finn added: “Harris’s endorsement database isn’t conscionable extensive, it’s modern, representing an inclusive conjugation that resonates with younger voters and mainstream culture. Trump’s lineup of endorsements, portion loyal, tends to play to his existing basal without reaching undecided oregon younger voters successful the aforesaid way. Come November 5, we volition spot conscionable however overmuch these stars swayed the 2024 campaign.”

Ends Top 10 backers of Harris Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Cher, Whoopi Goldberg, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence Top 10 backers of Trump Dana White, Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight, Rosanne Barr, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, Kid Rock, Elon Musk, Mel Gibson, Azealia Banks