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A majority of Republican voters “strongly/somewhat” disapprove of celebrities speaking out about political issues, according to a new poll.

Conducted by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, the poll found that a 61 percent majority of Republicans are opposed to celebrities bumping their gums about political matters. Among Independents, the number drops to just 39 percent, and among Democrats, it drops even lower to 20 percent.

These numbers are probably easy to explain. Most celebrities are leftists, so of course Democrats support them running their mouths. Conversely, most Republicans don’t.

Among those who “neither approve nor disapprove,” independents lead with a whopping 49 percent.

Overall, among all groups, a 39 percent plurality (not to be confused with a majority) oppose celebrities talking about politics, while a 24 percent minority support them.

Celebrities are relevant because Vice President Kamala Harris desperately tried to grab every celebrity endorsement possible during this year’s presidential election, but to no avail.

“The mega-wattage glare of stardom shining on the electorate may have reinforced an idea of a Harris campaign out of touch with ordinary American concerns, especially in an economy smarting from the woes of inflation,” an analysis piece from The Guardian published last month reads.

“Or, more bluntly: perhaps the era of the celebrity endorsement is over,” the piece continues.

Not necessarily. President-elect Donald Trump also scooped a bevy of celebrity endorsements — but mainly from the relatively few celebrities who aren’t raving liberal madmen and madwomen. Celebrities like Joe Rogan, Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock, Jake Paul, Dr. Phil, etc.

Plus, Trump’s endorsements appear to have come organically, whereas Harris’ endorsements seem to have involved money.

“Election accounting records show $1m of Harris campaign cash was used to pay [Oprah] Winfrey’s production company, though the star herself was not paid,” The Guardian notes. “The campaign also paid for a reproduction stage set for Harris’s sit-down with the Call Her Daddy podcaster Alex Cooper.”

Recall that in October, Harris appeared on the salacious “Call Her Daddy” sex podcast where she received fewer than one million views on YouTube.

Contrast that with the 47 million views minimum that President-elect Donald Trump’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast received on YouTube.

Regardless, it turns out that Harris’ campaign spent six figures just to build a set for her podcast appearance, according to reporting from the Washington Examiner.

“Money can’t buy you love or a good candidate,” a Trump campaign adviser quipped to the Examiner.

Republican political strategist Brad Todd, meanwhile, argued that Harris’ loss isn’t a lesson on money being irrelevant in elections. It’s instead an indictment of the vice president’s bad messaging.

“Advertising is a pretty important source of information for swing voters,” he said. “It no doubt matters, but it’s not enough.”

“It doesn’t matter if you have the wrong message and it’s not delivered in a compelling way. What her campaign was missing was any effort to break with the unpopular administration she has been a part of,” he added.

True.

Still, there’s no doubt that Harris wasted a lot of money — up to $1 billion, in fact, as previously reported. She spent so much that by the end of the election, her campaign was reportedly $20 million in debt:

How did this happen? Because Harris’ campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon wasted oodles of money hosting lavish concerts with the vice president’s celebrity allies.

“Jen blew through a billion dollars in a few months, and it was all Jen’s idea to do all the concerts,” a campaign staffer told Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle last month.

They added that Dillon pursued these “concerts” with the likes of Eminem, Katy Perry, Lizzo, and more at the expense of “prioritizing and spending money on social media and other campaign priorities.”

Whoops!

Dovetailing back to the AP-NORC poll, it also found that a majority of all groups of Americans are burned out by political news, though Democrats are the most burned out of all.

The poll specifically found that 72 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents, and 59 percent of Republicans “feel the need to limit their media consumption about government and politics.”

These numbers also make sense. The 2024 presidential election was grueling for everybody, though especially so for Democrats given as they got their butts handed to them.

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