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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.
But it didn’t work. Neither Harris, Winfrey, nor the celebrity guests were enough to attract much interest. Based on screenshots shared on X/Twitter, the event got barely 271,000 viewers on YouTube, and viewership on X ranged anywhere from 10,000 to just under 65,000 viewers. It’s not entirely clear what other platforms she may have streamed the event through or what the actual viewership was, but even the New York Times only put the number at “hundreds of thousands of viewers,” which they say “bolster[s] a strategy that Ms. Harris’s campaign sees as crucial to reaching voters in battleground states and beyond in November.”
But Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on X had millions of people listening in and has accumulated over 278 million views.
Frankly, the low viewership was probably a blessing for Kamala.
