Major celebrities are working behind the scenes to secure prominent appearances at the upcoming Democratic National Convention ... but the Kamala Harris campaign isn't accommodating everyone ... for fear of making the DNC feel too Hollywood.
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00:00The Democratic Convention one week from today and we have the lowdown on how
00:06many celebrities are going to populate the convention in Chicago.
00:11Because you know celebrities have been coming out big for Kamala Harris and showing up at
00:16rallies but in Chicago it's gonna look a little different and by design as far as the Harris campaign.
00:24Because there is a thing that has happened over the last I don't know
00:2820 years where lots and lots of celebrities have have spoken up in favor
00:35of Democratic candidates and there has been a little bit of a backlash from
00:40time to time and the Harris campaign we're told is very conscious of that so
00:45they want celebrities there but they don't want too many of them.
00:49Right and not and they don't want them in high-profile in other words you don't
00:52want what they don't want is a parade of celebrities on stage where the DNC ends
00:58up looking more like the Oscars and it's also because but there's there's
01:02definitely a tightrope that she's walking right so she wants the money
01:07that the celebrities are going to donate the campaign but she's saying to present
01:12to the American people we can't see I just agree with him I disagree with you
01:15on that because they're she's gonna get the money no matter what the
01:20people who were like the George Clooney's everybody else right they're
01:24not gonna stop if they don't get right you know front and center at the
01:27convention but I think and actually those people probably don't want oh I
01:31don't but it'd be interesting because Clooney is the most interesting one
01:34because Clooney was really important in getting Biden to step down so it would
01:40be interesting if he spoke because that's why Kamala Harris is right there
01:43but we don't know if the only person we know for sure is gonna be there is John
01:47legend we don't know exactly what he's gonna do but there will be celebrities
01:53but there is a backlash that occurs when there are too many of them because
01:57a lot of people you know not in the flyover states as we call it they're not
02:02I don't think they call it that they don't call it that but they're they're
02:05not crazy about big celebrities telling people how to vote yeah look I think I
02:10think it's actually a really smart move by the campaign to be very selective and
02:14choosy about who they're bringing out because there are lessons to be learned
02:16from Hillary Hillary Clinton's campaign where it was chock full of celebrities
02:21remember Kim Kardashian came out all sorts of celebrities backed Hillary
02:24Clinton and it didn't work then so Kamala Harris this campaign is like we
02:27can be selective here we got a lot of enthusiasm let's get the right
02:30celebrities maybe George Clooney's in that mix maybe not but we know John
02:33legend for sure the one person who could really make a difference for the
02:37Democrats I mean there is one person and it's not Clooney and it's not Oprah and
02:42it's okay to say her name just say her name already
02:46Taylor Swift Taylor Swift but it is true can change the election and I'll
02:52tell you she is a very intentional person she came out in support of Biden
02:57in 2020 I don't think there's much doubt at all if that's going to endorse
03:02someone she's going to endorse Harris right but she will do it we don't know
03:06that she's going to we don't know that she's going to but if she does it she
03:09would do it strategically and that would probably be in late October you would
03:13think because right the idea would be to mobilize people to get them to the
03:17polls and her call to action she did this with the get out the vote campaign
03:21move the needle so she's the one person if they had to pick anybody it's gonna
03:28be Taylor Swift right hey it's Chris cadence from Las Vegas Nevada I
03:32definitely do think Taylor is gonna vote give her support to the DNC but also the
03:38DNC needs to have better discernment on what celebrities are used for this
03:42because there's a thin line between trying to be relatable and pandering
03:46that they don't seem to have the grass on that for me that's a really good
03:49distinction that's a really good distinction