For anyone under 30, the hottest ticket to snag after Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention was for the “Hotties for Harris” afterparty, where drag queens danced in front of superimposed spinning Tim Walz cut-outs and coconut tree graphics.
“I am not kidding when I say this is the best political party I’ve ever been to,” David Hogg, the co-creator of “March for our Lives,” said. “This is where Gen Z is.”
The event, billed as a content creator party, focused its messaging on reproductive rights to young voters with raunchy decorations and free contraception. Inside the venue, partygoers were greeted by a “Hall of Hotties” wall, lit in the same lime-green shade of popstar Charli XCX’s “brat” album, and featuring photos of everyone from former President Barack Obama to former Philadelphia Eagles Center Jason Kelce.
Organizers also poked fun at the Republican Party, former President Donald Trump and vice presidential nominee JD Vance by designating a “Wall of Weirdos” with portraits of the pair and other Republican officials, a nod to Gov. Tim Walz’s statement that “these guys are weird as hell….”
Upon entering the space, attendees snagged “Hotties for Harris” bucket hats, tank tops, shirts, posters and other merch to bring home and an assortment of “F*ck Project 2025” condoms.
More than 2,000 guests signed up for a spot on the list, according to event co-host Liz Plank.
Harris’ campaign has captured the loyalty of significant cohorts of voters from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds thanks to the vice president’s decades-long support of LGBTQ+ rights, advocacy for access to abortion and for her identity as a Black and South Asian woman.
And the Harris campaign has leaned into celebrity and Gen-Z pop culture on social media — posting edits of Harris to popstar Chappell Roan’s hit song “Femininomenon” on TikTok and making orange-font “Harris Walz” camouflage hats inspired by Roan’s merchandise. It even rebranded its Twitter to “Kamala hq” with a “brat”-inspired banner image and bio that reads “providing context” following internet pandemonium over Charli XCX proclaiming Kamala as “brat” in a tweet.
Plank called Tuesday’s event a culmination of old-school political organizing and modern use of social media messaging.
“So much of the excitement around Kamala Harris has been the meme-ification of it, it’s been these Zooms and these digital forms of organizing, which is amazing and very modern,” Plank said. “”But the old-school getting together and celebrating and talking to each other is really valuable in politics and valuable for community building.”
In the room full of self-proclaimed “Democratic party girls,” Claudia Conway, daughter of George and Kellyanne Conway, stood surrounded by a chatty group of fellow content creators.
The 19-year-old told the Journal Sentinel that she came to the party to be surrounded by like-minded enthusiastic young people. “I mean, this is a cultural phenomenon, 
Conway was among the event’s many celebrity attendees including Florida Congressman Max Frost; Adam Faze, film producer and ex-boyfriend of Olivia Rodrigo; radio and youtube host Zach Sang; and dozens of other TikTok creators.
Mattie Westbrouk, a TikTok creator with 11.4 million followers, listed a number of reasons why they planned to support and promote the Harris-Walz campaign in November.
“I have a girlfriend that I would really like to marry one day, and I have a sister who I believe has the right to choose to do whatever she wants with her body,” Wesbrouck said. “I have a mom who’s a teacher, who I pray every morning that an individual or a child who has access to an automatic weapon does not take her life with a semi-automatic weapon. That’s why I’m here….”
From Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via USA Today
The decadence of the Democratic Party never ceases to amaze me. Democratic policies are destroying the moral fabric of this country. The Democrats promote artificial glitter not substansive policies. America is at the crossroads and needs to turn back to God before it’s too late. In God We Trust. God Bless America. Make America Great Again.
Democrats are crime creators, kid stealers, baby killers, border destroyers, economy destroyers, nation destroyers, and warmakers. Why would anyone want them in charge of anything?
There are two different Americas. I live in Red America. I don’t consider Blue Americans to be true Americans. Blue Catholic Americans are even more detestable than Blue secular Americans. You gotta be some kind of ignorant, stupid, or evil to be a Blue American.
Red America. MAGA. All the way. If it comes to Civil War, bring it on. Blue America is the enemy within.
Is there any perversion that my former political party does not embrace?
And, rather than policy messages and debate, they rely on superficial social media to reach voters with an attention span of no more than 30 seconds.
Like Reagan (go see the movie), I must say “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, it left me.”
It wasn’t always controlled by leftists and perverts.
Correction: Substantive
The Democratic Party needs an after-party because they have no good policies of their own to run on.
The Democrat party is obsessed with Abortion and anything related to death, they are truly sick and demonic. This is not the party of JFK and your parents and grandparents these are open Communists.
Romulus Augustus: You are absolutely right this is no longer the Democratic Party of JFK. That’s why RFK Jr. in his press conference to suspend his campaign and endorse Trump said, “The Democratic Party has left the core values I grew up with.” He also said, “Democrats have dismantled democracy. Democracy is a slogan for the Democratic Party.” And yes you too are right Romulus Augustus that they are obsessed with Abortion and are very left wing radicals. America has a clear choice on November 5. In God We Trust. God Bless America. Make America Great Again.
Set the record straight: Eight of the 13 Gold Star families invited Donald Trump and sent video messages to Vice President Kamala Harris in response to her tweet attacking President Trump for an incident while attending a ceremony with them at Arlington Cemetery. Trump supporters, Gold Star families flood Harris X account. One Gold Star said to Harris, “You should be ashamed about your lack of empathy as a human being.” Another said, “Administration killed my son.” The left wing fake news media needs to pick up their game and start to tell the truth. In God We Trust. God Bless America.
Kamala is going to win. Trump is self destructing. I hope you stock up on Kleenex for all the crying you will do for the next 4.5 years. Maybe soap too to clear out your mouths from all the swear words you’ll say.
Do you want her to win?
Whether she wants Kamala to win or not, she’s right. Stupid voters elect stupid leaders.
soap, too: I pray that you are wrong because it would be a disaster for America. I don’t think God saved Donald Trump from an assassination attempt to lose an election.
A counsel of despair
This is really and absolutely disgusting. People party for the degeneration of this country while millions suffer under worsening economic conditions. If this is the West, then may the West fall.
Kamala is dumb. Of course, people dumber than she is are incapable of realizing that she’s dumb. Based on the polls, there seems to be a lot of dumb people in America.
dumb: Don’t trust the polls. If you recall Hillary Clinton was 8 points up in the polls in 2016, but she ended up losing to Trump.
I’m voting for Trump even though he’s a detestable man and has some wonky ideas. He’s infinitely preferable to Kamala.
But if Trump loses, I will probably never vote again in another election. The USofA is that far gone. We’re all sinking together on the Titanic. Some of us have access to the luxury lounge while the ship goes down, making the experience more pleasant but not being able to escape the same ultimate outcome.
There are no lifeboats. Where are you going to go besides America?
““I have a girlfriend that I would really like to marry one day, and I have a sister who I believe has the right to choose to do whatever she wants with her body,” Wesbrouck said…” So Mattie’s choice of President hinges on her lesbian fortunes and her sister’s right to abortion; she then mentions the Harris ticket will keep juvenile mass murderers out of the classroom. There is no mention of domestic economic policy, foreign policy and national security, education and health care. Such is the myopic, narcissistic world view of Hotties for Harris, whose ability to think about policies goes about as deep as a parking lot puddle. And that might be the greatest threat to our national security.