Kamala Harris Delivers What the Media Wants: Provocation, Humor, and Celebrity

Whether you like Donald Trump or not, it is impossible to deny that he is a news machine. Secretly, journalism is grateful: the raw material provided by the conservative politician generates a high audience. Unlike the dull rhetoric of Joe Biden.

Even before being confirmed as the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris is proving to be a match for her rival by producing stories that attract millions of clicks on the Internet and extra news points.

The vice president has excellent public speaking skills. She reads texts on a teleprompter with ease and is good at improvising. Technique developed during her artistic training and during years of activity as a lawyer and attorney general. Clearly vain, she likes cameras and has a magnetism that attracts lenses.

He smiles a lot (his laughter, in fact, is demonized by Republicans), jokes, encourages the audience with taunts against his opponent – such as saying that he is used to dealing with “criminals of the same type as Trump” – and injects a generous dose of relaxation into the serious political environment. He is famous, for example, for his TikTok-style dances. Kamala knows how to go viral, just as Barack Obama used to do swaggering demonstrations to increase his visibility.

It also pleases the media by attracting celebrities to the campaign news. The support of George Clooney, Beyoncé, Barbra Streisand, Spike Lee, John Legend, Mark Hamill, Jamie Lee Curtis, among others, has been highlighted on talk shows, websites, podcasts, magazines, and newspapers. The artists’ demonstration serves as a stimulus to voters who like famous groupies.

A line from the excellent series ‘West Wing’ (1999-2006), about the behind-the-scenes of the White House, serves the new ‘show woman’ of American progressives. “You are a smart, savvy woman who could easily consider world domination as your next career move.”

Kamala and Trump use charisma to co-opt support and votes, producing memes and spontaneous publicity in the mainstream media. For those who love politics, following the day-to-day life of this White House dispute has been pure entertainment, complete with heroes, villains, and surprising twists.

Source: Terra