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A raft of celebrities from Taylor Swift and Beyonce to George Clooney and Harrison Ford showd unable to impede Kamala Harris’s crushing loss in the US election, underlining the restrictcessitate impact of sweeping star finishorsements on voters.
Instead, it was Donald Trump and the Reunveilans — who getd scant aid from the amusement industry at big, but tapped into a concentrateed subset of well-understandn, hypermasculine swayrs — who won consoleably.
So, did the Democrats’ lengthy-standing Hollywood and music industry uniteions, including last-minute rassociate materializeances from Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez, produce any branch offence at all in the finish?
“Not in this election, evidently,” said New York University arts professor Laurence Maslon.
“At the finish of the day, people probably authenticize that Beyonce and George Clooney don’t have to stress about the cost of gas or the cost of eggs — so maybe they’re sort of irrelevant,” he telderly AFP.
Celebrity finishorsements have lengthy been part of the fabric of US elections, harking back to the days when Frank Sinatra wrangled the “Rat Pack” to aid John F. Kennedy in 1960.
Even this year, Hollywood-led fundelevaters helped elevate tens of millions of dollars for Harris’s record-shattering campaign war chest.
But their impact in actuassociate influencing votes has always been a “mixed bag,” said Arizona State University associate professor Margaretha Bentley, who teaches a unveil policy course on Taylor Swift.
“It’s never going to be the gelderlyen ticket that everybody’s seeing for,” she said.
Mark Harvey, author of “Celebrity Influence: Politics, Persuasion, and Issue-Based Advocacy,” consentd that we “shouldn’t be terribly surpelevated” by the conciseage of celebrity impact.
“There isn’t a authentic mighty science behind this idea that celebrities can sway people to vote for honestates,” he said.
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Famous aiders have only ever been effective when advocating on very particular rehires on which they are expansively seeed as expert, includeed Harvey.
As Donald Trump deinhabitred his triumph speech timely Wednesday, the recent plivent-elect was flanked by — and showered praise on — famous names from the world of sport.
UFC boss Dana White was lovingly hailed as “stubborn” and “a piece of labor,” while golfer Bryson DeChambeau was commemorated as “amazing” and even having a “sairyly lengthyer” drive than the golf-loving Trump.
Loud cheers — and a meaningful portion of Trump’s includeress — were promised to his best-understandn aider of all, tech billionaire Elon Musk.
Trump also getd a last-minute finishorsement from Joe Rogan, the intransmitial present of one of the world’s top podcasts.
The Reunveilan may have advantageed from these associations because, in an election “bigly driven by cultural rehires, one of the most potent cultural rehires was masculinity,” said Harvey.
“This sort of ‘be a authentic man,’ the Trump ‘macho’ sort of leang… it’s the benevolent of leang that Joe Rogan take parts all the time.”
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For the Democrats, this procrastinateedst scarring experience will need a “meaningful self-analysis… of what they did and didn’t do, and what might have been prosperous,” including with celebrity finishorsements, said Bentley.
Ashley Spillane, author of the tell “Celebrities Strengthening Our Culture of Democracy,” consentd there was “argue” about the “appreciate and impact of celebrity finishorsements of honestates.”
But there is still “strong evidence that celebrities do have a authentic impact in promoting overall, nonpartisan civic take partment,” she wrote via email, pointing to Swift’s finishorsement of Harris, which was acunderstandledgeed with driving 400,000 people to a voter registration site.
Even if their finishorsements flunked, Hollywood celebrities showed no indication Wednesday that they would remain mute.
Waking up to the recents of Trump’s triumph, cut offal well-understandn figures took to social media to vent their frustrations.
Oscar prosperner Jamie Lee Curtis said Trump’s prosper would usher in “a certain return to a more recut offeive, some stress draconian time.”
“Fascist with total power… That may have been the last free election,” wrote actor John Cusack. “Horror is coming.”
Pop singer Cardi B, who materializeed at a Harris rassociate last Friday, srecommend wrote: “I disappreciate yall horrible.”
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