We’ve spoken about how Kamala Harris seems to need to drag in celebrities to pump up her audience numbers. Unlike President Donald Trump, we might add, who doesn’t need to do that because he is the person people are coming to see.
As we reported on Thursday night, she had Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama, and even Samuel L. Jackson at a rally in Georgia. I like Jackson as an actor, so it’s sad that he’s deluded in this regard. As my colleague Bob Hoge wrote, Springsteen’s singing was sad at best — “sounded like a cat being throttled.”
But once Obama and Springsteen were done, it looked like many folks decided that they didn’t care about sticking around to hear what Kamala had to say, as many headed to the doors as she started speaking.
After Obama spoke, Harris took the stage, but her usual walk-on song did not play, leaving the 60-year-old to enter without the same energy seen at other rallies.
While the vast majority of attendees in the stadium remained, dozens of people were spotted exiting the bleachers as she spoke in the way baseball fans head for the exits of a blowout in the late innings to avoid traffic.
It was perhaps especially funny that they were making for the exits as she spoke about “turning the page.”