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Harris Looks For Boost From Oprah As Part Of Digital-First Media Strategy
Farmington Hills, Michigan – Vice President Kamala Harris sought a boost from persuadable and less-motivated voters during a livestream Thursday evening with former talk show host Oprah Winfrey, focussing on her plans to cut middle-class costs, restore a national right to abortion, and address gun violence.
The event, billed as “Unite for America,” and hosted by Winfrey from suburban Michigan, one of this election’s key battlegrounds, aimed to capture the same energy as Winfrey’s long-running talk show, which drove bestseller lists and allowed celebrities to share their softer side while also allowing ordinary people to share stories of struggle and inspiration.
Harris Looks For Boost From Oprah As Part Of Digital-First Media Strategy
It included celebrities such as Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Lopez, and Meryl Streep, as well as everyday voters’ tales, to push Harris’ message over 90 minutes and contrast it with former President Donald Trump, the GOP contender. More than 300,000 people watched the Harris campaign livestream on YouTube alone, and the event was also broadcast on other major social media channels.
“We each have those moments in our lives when it’s time to step up,” Harris said when Winfrey enquired about her overnight metamorphosis from President Joe Biden’s running mate to the Democratic contender in her own right after he abruptly dropped out in July. “I felt a sense of responsibility, to be honest with you, and with that comes a sense of purpose.”
Winfrey informed Harris that it appeared as if a “veil dropped” and she had “stepped into your power.”
At one point, Harris informed viewers that she had a gun, which astonished Winfrey, stating, “If someone breaks into my house, they’re gonna get shot.” She said, “I probably shouldn’t have said that.”
Harris was allowed to discuss her plans to reduce housing costs and slash taxes for the middle class as she answered questions from people in Michigan and Virginia.
Oprah recognized Hadley Duvall in the audience, a 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights activist after being raped by her stepfather as a youngster.
“You can’t wait until it’s too late to care about reproductive healthcare, because then it’s too late,” said Duvall, who appears in a new Harris campaign advertisement. “Thank you for hearing and seeing us when the Supreme Court won’t,” Duvall said, praising Harris.
Harris and Winfrey also hosted the mother and sister of a young Georgia mother who died while waiting 20 hours for a hospital to address complications from an abortion medication. Amber Thurman’s death, first reported by ProPublica on Monday, came just two weeks after Georgia adopted a stringent abortion ban in 2022, following the Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate nationwide abortion rights. Harris blamed her death on Trump.
“Amber was not a statistic; she was loved by a family, a strong family, and we would have done anything to get my baby, our baby, the help that she required,” Thurman’s mother, Shanette Williams, stated.
Harris applauded their courage in speaking up and warned of a “healthcare crisis” precipitated by the reversal of Roe v. Wade. “They have no right to be in your womb,” Winfrey stated.
Natalie Griffith, a student who was shot twice last month at Apalachee High School in Georgia, attended with her parents. Her mother revealed her dread after hearing about the shooting at her child’s school.
“No parent should go through this,” Marilda Griffith said through tears, recalling rushing out of work and heading to the school to see whether her daughter was okay. She called for federal action to reduce gun violence.
Harris, after mentioning that she owned a gun, stated that assault-style rifles were meant to kill as many people as possible on a battlefield and “don’t belong on the streets of civil society.”
The gathering comes as Harris works to continue sharing her biography and governance ideas with people throughout her brief presidential campaign, with early voting already underway in some states.
Harris has minimized her engagements with conventional media, instead focussing on internet engagement and casual — and often more controlled — moments that her campaign thinks would reach voters who increasingly acquire their news from digital sources.
“I want to bring my daughters to the White House to meet this Black woman president,” comedian Chris Rock declared.
Harris Looks For Boost From Oprah As Part Of Digital-First Media Strategy
The in-the-round stage resembles a college campus, with false brick pillars and a backdrop of trees and green turf beneath the chairs of the few hundred people in the audience. Dozens more supporters appeared on TV screens across the hall.
“I look around at these screens, Oprah, and I look at who’s in the room, and this is America,” she remarked.
The gathering is intended to bring together Harris supporters who formed spontaneously after a “Black Women for Harris” call drew tens of thousands of viewers and collected $1.5 million in the hours after Harris took over for Biden when his campaign ended. “White Dudes for Harris,” “Comedians for Harris,” and “Swifties for Harris” were among the suggestions.
Winfrey concluded with an appeal “for all decent people, for all caring people” to support Harris, stating of Trump, “We’re better than this.”
SOURCE | AP
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Democrats Now Leaderless After Trump Presidential Win
Democrats spent billions of dollars with the legacy media to try and create fear among American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy; in the end, voters didn’t care. They chose to believe their own eyes and not the rhetoric.
Following Kamala Harris’ decisive loss, the Democrats are now entering a second Trump presidency without a clear leader, a clear plan, or an accord on the reasons for their significant miscalculations in the 2024 election.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and former Democratic primary candidate, had warned Harris before Election Day that she was focusing too much on flipping Republican votes and not enough on pocketbook issues. He issued a statement excoriating party leadership.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he said. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Trump’s promises to impose tariffs on both allies and foes and his threats to American businesses contemplating the relocation of jobs offshore were alluring to union workers.
Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of the far-left Justice Democrats, told AP that the party’s leadership must “accept responsibility for that a second”Donald Trump presidency was once again feasible under their supervision.”
Rojas charged that the Democratic Party is los”ng legitimacy among the everyday people and marginalized communities, who are continuously used as stepping stones to win elections. She also acknowledged that “there are no easy answers for where we as a coun”ry and movement go from here.”
The data indicates that Democrats have” substantial work to do.
Faiz Shakir, the Democratic strategist who oversaw Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, is concerned that Sanders’s Democratic Party will fail to engage in the necessary introspection after this catastrophic defeat.
He asserted that “a healthy party is challenging itself to conduct”that type of autopsy and hear what we did wrong.” “I am not even aware that such a process will occur. He asks, “Will the Democratic Party’s well-paid consultant and big-money interParty learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?”
“Will they comprehend the political alienation and pain that tens of millions of Americans are currently experiencing?” Do they have any suggestions for how we can confront the Oligarchy, which is gaining economic and political influence at an accelerated pace? It is unlikely, he said.
Source: AP
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Kamala Concession Speech Trends on Google
One day after former President Donald Trump’s historic re-election, Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the presidential race and vowed to maintain unity. Her concession speech trended on Google with over 5 million searches.
“I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign, but I do concede this election.” She stated, “In our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States.”
Kamala Harris acknowledged that there was no viable strategy for obtaining the presidency even though her speech was not what she intended.
In the center of Washington, DC, Harris delivered a speech at her alma mater, Howard University. Harris expressed her gratitude to the hundreds of campaign workers and volunteers who worked assiduously on her campaign and to the tens of millions of voters who cast their votes for her.
Kamala Harris also stated that the country should unite for a peaceful power transfer despite the agony of losing.
She said, “We must acknowledge the outcomes of this election.” “I conversed with President-elect Trump earlier today and congratulated him on his victory.”
I also informed him that we would assist him and his team during his transition and participate in a peaceful transfer of power.
In the interim, Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a caustic statement regarding the presidential election results, accusing the Democratic Party of having “abandoned” working-class voters. It’s unsurprising that “a Democratic Party that has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”
Sanders, who secured re-election last night, stated that the party’s white working-class voters were the first to quit and that it now appears that Latino and Black workers are following suit. “The American people are enraged and desire change despite the Democratic leadership’s defense of the status quo,” he stated. “And they’re right.”
Trump and Vance were also congratulated on their electoral victory by former President Obama, who ardently campaigned for Harris in the final stretch before Election Day. This was announced in a statement published today.
“This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues,” according to him. “But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won’t always win out, and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.”
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Despite All the Odds Donald Trump Elected 47th President
On Wednesday, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, a remarkable turnaround for a former president who refused to concede defeat four years ago.
Trump achieved the 270 electoral votes required to secure the presidency with a victory in Wisconsin. On Wednesday afternoon, he emerged victorious in Michigan, conquering the “blue wall” with Pennsylvania.
On Wednesday afternoon, Vice President Kamala Harris contacted President-Elect Trump to congratulate her and acknowledge his victory in the election. Shortly thereafter, Vice President Biden conversed with Trump to extend his congratulations and invitation to the White House.
Foreign leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also phoned Trump.
“I would like to express my gratitude to the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected as your 47th and 45th president,” Trump addressed a crowd of enthusiastic supporters in Florida before officially confirming their victory.
“Today, you demonstrated unprecedented attendance to secure a victory, and we have endured an immense amount of hardship together,” Trump said. This was truly exceptional, and we will repay you,” he added.
Upon his return to office, Trump will collaborate with a Senate that is now under Republican control, while the House’s governance remains uncertain.
Elon Musk’s Tesla, banks, cryptocurrencies, and the U.S. stock market all surged Wednesday as investors anticipated a smooth election and Trump’s return to the White House.
Trump has pledged to implement an agenda that prioritizes the substantial revamping of the federal government during his second term.
When Trump assumes office on January 20, he will face various challenges, such as global crises testing America’s influence abroad and heightened political polarization.
Trump has pledged to revolutionize nearly every facet of the American government. This encompasses the intention to initiate the most extensive deportation operation in the nation’s history, once more pursue a zero-sum approach to foreign policy, and increase the use of tariffs.
Upon his arrival in Washington in 2017, Trump was unfamiliar with the mechanisms of federal authority. Congress, the judiciary, and senior staff members who acted as guardrails impeded his agenda.
This time, Trump has declared that he will surround himself with allies who will execute his agenda without question and arrive with hundreds of proposed executive orders, legislative proposals, and in-depth policy papers.
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