A-list actresses stumped through Arizona over the weekend as a pitch for Vice President Kamala Harris included a callback to “breakfast tacos.”
Like busing in supporters to fill venues with fawning sycophants for photo-ops, the vice president’s campaign deployed celebrities to the Grand Canyon State to bolster her vainglorious vibes. With net worths ranging from eight to ten figures, Jessica Alba, Glenn Close Kerry Washington, and others sold themselves as empowering average Americans left beaten by the Biden-Harris economy.
“I’m not here as Olivia Pope. I am here because I want each of you to remember how powerful you are,” said Washington, referencing her character from ABC’s “Scandal” “Each of you has the power to transform the trajectory of this country.”
“We keep thinking that somebody else should fix things for us,” she suggested before claiming, “but we are the answer to the problems that we are facing.”
You have the power. ✊ #HarrisWalz2024 pic.twitter.com/cV5wg0weKk
— kerry washington (@kerrywashington) October 7, 2024
Likewise, according to a report from the Arizona Republic, Alba pitched to voters, “I am here as a proud American citizen, as a Latina, as a mama, and as a community member. I grew up in a working-class family, my parents living paycheck to paycheck, several jobs each, and it’s not that fun just to get by. And Kamala Harris promises an opportunity economy where we’re not just gonna get by anymore, we’re going to thrive.”
According to a report from The Strive, Alba was on track to become a billionaire thanks to her stake in Honest Co., but her net worth dropped throughout the Biden-Harris administration from $340 million in 2021 when the company was valued at $1.7 billion to roughly $100 million earlier in 2024 when the market cap shifted to $154 million.
The focus on her Latina identity also included a popular phrase from communist icon Cesar Chavez as a selfie with a crowd on Sunday saw Alba, Close, Washington, and actor Michael Ealy chanting the line, “Yes we can” in Spanish, “Si se puede!”
View this post on Instagram
The demographic pandering in the state where voters were fed up with the border crisis harkened back to First Lady Jill Biden’s butchering of the line when she said, “Si, se pwodway!” only to refer to the Hispanic community as “breakfast tacos” while stumbling on the pronunciation of “bodega.”
Piling on the disconnect, Close, who actually portrayed Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance’s grandmother in the film adaptation of his best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy,” said, “Come January, I will have my first grandson, and I’m here because of him. I’m here because of people who don’t have a voice. We have so much healing to do in this country, and in order to heal we need all of us together. I have a brother who has very, very different political views, but I’m sure, I’ve always thought, the most important thing is to love him no matter what.”
While speaking with reporters, Ealy contended at an event that included former Attorney General Eric Holder, Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and Senate candidate Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, “If I was able to kind of reach out to them and talk to them, I feel like there’s a way in which we can hear them and then turn that around into something more positive, into something more realistic. No person can come to me and tell me that Trump’s policies are going to benefit the black community. Nobody can say that.”
Meanwhile, at a separate event Saturday with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and Melania Trump’s onetime chief of staff Stephanie Grisham, actress Jennifer Garner pushed the female empowerment narrative rampant in Harris’ campaigning that encouraged disunity in households.
“I remember when I was young, my mom didn’t want to tell my dad when she voted for Carter. I remember as she got older and had three daughters who were all Democrats, she was empowered to say, ‘Phil, you know, I just love you, but I just don’t vote like you,'” she recalled according to the Republic. “You vote for you.”
- ‘I’m not going to listen to transphobia at this table!’ CNN panel explodes over a perceived ‘slur’ - November 9, 2024
- FEMA official given the boot after directing relief workers to ‘avoid homes advertising Trump’ - November 9, 2024
- Tulane women’s basketball head coach wore Kamala shirt to kick off season, team loses - November 9, 2024
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.