“Kamala is a brat” Singer Charli XCX tweeted on Sunday after Vice President Kamala Harris secured the presidential nomination for the vacancy left by President Joe Biden. Even though Charli XCX is 31 herself, she uses slang that would be obvious to anyone under 30, especially girls and gays: boy is a summer album, with a distinctive neon green cover, brimming with affection for Dimes Square podcast provocateur Julia Fox, and—somehow, simultaneously—lady angst when you’re at a bar. I’m in my twenties and haven’t had a baby yet.
Harris’ team is eager to turn what they see as pop star endorsements into branding strategies; X account “Kamala HQ” (1.1 million followers) adopts Charli boy Make your own banner image that says “Kamala Headquarters.“ Meanwhile, gays in New York City, who received news of Biden’s exit in their natural habit (Fire Island), quickly made crop tops in the exact same style as Biden’s. boy. A mash-up of one of Harris’ most chilling lines – some anecdote about coconut trees – is set to Charli XCX’s song “Von dutch.” It has received over 4 million views.
“The internet is going crazy over Harris’ campaign,” declared No. 19, a gender and politics website. CNN (CNN) added that Harris’ “meme stock is bullish,” and the outlet dedicated a panel to the topic in which a baby boomer in a suit tried not to subtly explain the craze to others. “Is Kamala Harris a ‘brat’?” asked economist, calling 2024 the “TikTok election in the United States.” The Associated Press explained rather dispassionately: “Young celebrities hope to help Harris by associating her with their viral and loyal social media brands.”
“Children should exude the ineffable aura of famous but not A-list women,” writes Shirley Li. Atlantic Organization. “The child is the quintessential female archetype, right up there with the Jezebel, the crone, the slut, the career girl,” writes Kat Rosenfield. Free Press. “The children are Cinderella’s stepsisters, lacking both social graces and proper gratitude for the privileges they enjoy.”
But what the hungry Internet, filled with people looking for writers, and the Harris campaign missed is that “brat” isn’t really a compliment.
According to Charli XCX’s own description, a “brat” is someone who walks around with “a pack of cigarettes, a Bic lighter and a white strappy top without a bra.” A girl who “feels like herself, but maybe also broken down. But kind of like a party, very honest, very forthright. A little unstable. Likes to do stupid things.”
The media thought Harris had a lock on the youth vote because Charli XCX posted a tweet that took about 30 seconds to create (possibly a spoof) that exposed some kind of wistful Obama 2.0-style campaigning on all sides, Or make Harris an inspirational figure like Bernie Sanders. Perhaps more importantly, it contradicts the polls.
CNN polling analyst Harry Enten noted that among young voters, Harris overall “performed much worse than Biden did against Trump in 2020,” That view is supported by a Quinnipiac University poll conducted July 19-21. the latest one New York Times/ Siena College polling data complicates that claim a bit, finding that “Harris performed better among younger (18 to 29-year-old) and Latino voters than Mr. Biden did in any survey this year. ”, which may not mean anything. Biden is known to underperform among these groups, so an improvement in the margins is a good thing for Democrats but may not be a game changer. (“in turn, [Harris] The results among white working-class voters and voters over 65 were worse than Mr Biden’s results in all but one of the previous polls era/Siena poll,” the same article noted. )
Perhaps more importantly, what really matters this time is not the young people’s vote. Yes, it’s nice, but Harris needs to win Penn State. Harris needs to win Arizona. Harris needs to win Michigan. Harris needs to win Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina. It would be helpful if she could appeal to young voters in those states, and/or meaningfully impact young voter turnout. Otherwise, the “Von dutch” meme doesn’t mean squat.
“Young voters remain negative about politics and voting, but hope has increased since June,” Change Research found in a report released Wednesday that found young people are actually excited about Harris and therefore more It is possible to vote. But despite this, “the main emotions associated with voting were all negative: 53% of people selected ‘anxious’, 43% selected ‘afraid’ and 38% selected ‘overwhelmed’ in the all-choice question ‘, 37% chose ‘angry’, but with Biden withdrawing and Harris entering the race, people’s hope rose from 23% to 30%.”
Kamala is not boy. Kamala was a mediocre candidate who was known as an eccentric alcoholic aunt who said strange things, capitalizing on a viral moment amid an otherwise bleak political outlook, in this case for young voters Realize that politicians rarely deliver on their promises.
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- According to the Associated Press, “A month after the Supreme Court ruled to allow cities to enforce bans on sleeping in public spaces, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Thursday directing state agencies on how to dismantle homeless people. Homecoming camp.
- The leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel has been arrested by US authorities.
- Both Barack and Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris for president, a slightly awkward call released by the Harris campaign as a campaign video.
- Just hours before the Olympics were scheduled to start, the French train system was attacked by arsonists.
- Boy, Kamala Harris sure knows how to appeal to Rust Belt normalcy:
BREAKING NEWS: Kamala Harris just started her official campaign with Ru Paul and his drag queens. pic.twitter.com/EJ1ccMEcO7
— Dom Luke | Narrative Breaker (@dom_lucre) July 25, 2024
