With campaign season in full swing both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are pulling out all the stops to try to give themselves an edge in November's election, especially looking for an edge in the key swing states that are tipped to likely decide the election. But what 'pulling out all the stops' means is different for the two campaigns; to the Trump/Vance campaign it seems to mean taking every opportunity to talk to whoever wants to talk to them whenever they want to talk which is of course the more traditional way of doing these things. Sadly for the Harris/Walz campaign they simply don't have that luxury since their candidate for President has a nasty habit of coming off a bit.
.. let's say ditzy when she talks unscripted, so they've increasingly relied on their armies of cultural 'influencers' to do the campaigning for them.
The Democrats always have an advantage when it comes to the 'influencer' types, of course, since despite being the party that always frames itself as the cultural underdog and outsider they have for well over a generation had a stranglehold on the levers of cultural power in Hollywood and the music industry. But when it comes to celebrities there are those whose endorsement is helpful, Taylor swift (perhaps) for instance, and then there are those who have enough baggage to drown an ox whose enthusiastic endorsement is likely to do more damage than good with a huge swath of the population..
. and it's hard to think of a be.