Main celebrities are working laborious behind the scenes to safe high-profile appearances on the upcoming Democratic Nationwide Conference… however Kamala Harris' marketing campaign isn't reaching out to everybody… for worry of creating the DNC appear too Hollywood-esque.
Sources with direct data inform TMZ … that the Harris-Walz marketing campaign needs to be good about superstar involvement and is working laborious to keep away from portraying the DNC in Chicago as an occasion for the “liberal Hollywood elite.”
In accordance with our sources, the marketing campaign believes that Hillary Clinton gave an excessive amount of of a platform to celebrities in 2016 and that this had a unfavourable impact on her. Moreover, they don’t need to overdo the Hollywood facet to the purpose that extraordinary persons are turned off by it.
In different phrases, it's NOT the extra the merrier with regards to superstar appearances. As a substitute, our sources say the DNC and the Harris-Walz marketing campaign are being extra strategic and selective … selecting their spots with superstar audio system and performers that make sense.
Will probably be fascinating to see who will get invited to the DNC as soon as issues relax. Our sources say plans are nonetheless being finalized, with quite a few big-name artists vying for a spot on the conference and their very own marketing campaign occasions with Harris and Walz.
When President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris, her supporters had been inundated with requests from celebrities and musicians eager to get entangled together with her marketing campaign and the DNC.
However given considerations about turning the DNC right into a Hollywood manufacturing, it seems the Harris-Walz marketing campaign should make some powerful selections … and switch down a whole lot of celebrities.
We reached out to the Harris For President marketing campaign and senior spokesperson Adrienne Elrod tells TMZ … “We stay in probably the most personalised media surroundings ever, so it's important that we capitalize on the unprecedented pleasure surrounding this historic ticket by doing all the pieces we will to get by to the voters who will determine this election.”
Elrod provides… “Celebrities entice new voters by authentically speaking to their followers in regards to the election and the problems at stake in a manner that solely they’ll.”
We all know that John Legend will probably be a part of this system, however we don't know if he’ll converse or carry out.
Regardless of all the eye from Hollywood, don't count on to see Taylor Swift or Beyoncé on the DNC. Taylor is at the moment on tour abroad, and our sources extremely doubt Bey will make a private look on the DNC or attend a marketing campaign rally.
