How Kamala Harris campaign lied about Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny to attract and exploit crowds
For years, Lindy Li was an extremely active member of the Democratic Party.A former financial analyst, she ran for Congress in 2018 but lost in the Democratic primary.
She went on to become a key fundraiser for the DNC, raising millions for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in 2020 and Kamala Harris’ in 2024.But, in the wake of Harris’ defeat, dismayed with what she’d seen and how money had been spent, she had a highly publicized break from the party, which she details in her new book, “Unburdened: A Former Democrat Insider’s Shocking Account of Political Power, Betrayal, and Party Collapse” (Harper, Sept.
22). “I don’t think I could have lived with myself had I not told the truth,” she recently told Fox News.In this excerpt, she writes of how the Harris campaign lied about celebrities such as Beyonce and Taylor Swift to attract and exploit crowds.Beyoncé will perform on the final night of the convention!Just kidding — that was just a lie to pack the stadium for Kamala’s acceptance speech.Deceit slithered through Chicago like Dementors from “Harry Potter,” chilling the air as fifty thousand delegates, alternates, volunteers and press descended upon Carl Sandburg’s “Hog Butcher for the World.” As a member of the National Finance Committee, I was ushered in as a VIP, gliding from our hotel to the United Center in a private shuttle that looped through the city’s veins.But the moment Beyoncé failed to take the convention stage, disillusionment spilled into plain view.
True to form, Team B.O.C.H.— the name I’d given Biden, Obama, Clinton and Harris — botched the optics with spectacular ineptitude, courting worldwide ridicule and accusations of deceit.
Older Americans may not comprehend the power this pop demigod wields over the liberal faithful, but by willfully fanning the flames of the wildfire rumors, they effectively swore to the surging throngs — chiefly younger voters, an indispensable electoral force — that Qu...