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On Thursday, Oprah Winfrey “interviewed” Kamala Harris during a livestream rally in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Calling it an interview is generous—it was more of an Oprah-produced campaign ad for Kamala, complete with a lineup of celebrities, likely brought in to boost viewership. The entire thing felt like an effort to use Oprah’s influence to deliver Harris’s campaign message, not to have a serious discussion about the issues.
Butitdidn’twork.NeitherHarris,Winfrey,northecelebrityguestswereenoughtoattractmuchinterest. BasedonscreenshotssharedonX/Twitter,theeventgotbarely271,000viewersonYouTube,andviewershiponXrangedanywherefrom10,000tojustunder65,000viewers.It’snotentirelyclearwhatotherplatformsshemayhavestreamedtheeventthroughorwhattheactualviewershipwas,buteventheNewYorkTimesonlyputthenumberat“hundredsofthousandsofviewers,”whichtheysay“bolster[s]astrategythatMs.Harris’scampaignseesascrucialtoreachingvotersinbattlegroundstatesandbeyondinNovember.”
ButTrump’sinterviewwithElonMuskonXhadmillionsofpeople
