Hollywood helped raise over a billion dollars for Kamala Harris’ ill-fated presidential campaign, but it appears the former vice president doesn’t have a whole lot of fans in Los Angeles.
Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff were on hand to watch the L.A. Lakers take on the Golden State Warriors Thursday night and the crowd wasn’t particularly enthused to see the couple.
On Friday’s show, Megyn was joined by Victor Davis Hanson, author of The End of Everything, to discuss the rise and fall of Harris’ political career.
The Reaction
Harris and Emhoff were at the Crypto.com Arena to watch LeBron James and the Lakers take on Steph Curry and the Warriors. And while you may have expected to see the one-time California attorney general and U.S. senator sitting courtside, she was actually dozens of rows back in front of the broadcast booth.
Thousands were already in attendance when Harris and Emhoff made their way up the stairs to their seats and video shows the former VP smiling and waving to some in the crowd, but there appeared to be very little fanfare in return.
It was a marked difference from the reception celebrities in the front row like Ben Affleck and his son received from the fans and even the players themselves. TMZ reported Curry stopped by to chat with the actor.
What It Says
Megyn said the scene shows just how disconnected the perception of the Harris campaign was from the reality. “She is not beloved. She doesn’t inspire anyone. This was an astroturf campaign,” she explained. “[They] swung by the L.A. Lakers game. That’s where she lives, where she’s from… and literally no one is even noticing them.”
As the Trump administration takes aim at the DEI initiatives that have infiltrated every aspect of American life, Hanson said the gig is up for Harris. “From the very beginning, she had one card and you saw that in the debate in 2020 with Joe Biden when she called him a racist… I won’t even get into Willie Brown, but she was a mediocrity,” he said. “I don’t mean that in a mean way. She just was in way over her head. She knew she was over her head. They knew she was over her head.”
And as he noted, the truth is finally coming out. “The other day, Nancy Pelosi basically said, ‘We decapitated our candidate. Joe Biden in all his feebleness was a better candidate than Kamala Harris,'” Hanson said. “They know what they did. That was the worst campaign, I think, in my lifetime.”
It was a fail, he said, not because the U.S. electorate is sexist or racist as the Democrats would like to believe, but because of what she and the party stands for. “They had the money, they had the media, they had the administrative state on their side, and they still lost,” Hanson explained. “The problem wasn’t the sex or the gender. It was the message, and the message repelled people.”
“They keep thinking, ‘Oh, it’s a messenger,’ ‘Or it’s this,’ ‘Or it’s that,'” he concluded. “No, it is you and what you stand for.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Hanson by tuning in to episode 1,003 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.