Streamers are getting powerful. Just needed to be said because they are. So, on Wednesday, August 7, streamer Kai Cenat made a not so wild claim that he had been approached by various individuals to host Vice President Kamala Harris on his livestream channel. Sounds fishy though. Right after Adin Ross and Trump did their weird sycophant mini town hall adjacent carpool karaoke thing?
As we suspected, looks like cap. New reports are suggesting this all might be a flat-out truth stretch to put it lightly.
According to the all seeing eyes of TMZ, the campaign for Kamala Harris’s bid to become POTUS actually denied reaching out to Cenat for any appearances. Exhale.
Get this, sources close to the campaign stated to TMZ, that no one from the Harris for President team ever contacted Cenat or his reps, and top brass within the campaign have not discussed using Cenat’s platform for any potential collaborations.
Now after the newest drama, or lack thereof, Cenat has yet to respond publicly to the campaign’s denial.
Check this out. How it all started before mothballing from there … During his initial livestream, the 22-year-old popular streamer claimed that the Secret Service, yes those guys, had contacted him “five times” and mentioned that someone from his past had recently reached out, supposedly to discuss a potential collaboration between him and the Vice President. So now the Secret Service is the fist point of contact for booking high profile engagements between influencers and the VP? Sounds weird in our humble opinion.
“If somehow, someway, something was to happen where I do a stream [about] politics, I’m going to be 100% honest. I’m going to sit on my stream and say, ‘Why did you guys call me?’” Cenat said during the stream. “I don’t know! I’ve never done anything with politics, and these blogs are like, ‘Yo, you’ve got to do this sh*t Kai’—And it’s all the top blogs.”
Not missing a chance to join the chat, Charlamagne Tha God weighed in criticizing the rumored idea as “inorganic.” He remarked, “Hit me and tell me who sent you that text, man, because whoever on Vice President Kamala Harris’ team hit Kai Cenat to do a livestream, they need to be fired.” The fact that the campaign denies this makes C-Tha-God’s quick to jump at a story without fact checking a bit irresponsible but what do we know.
Charlamagne went on to add, “I do believe politicians should absolutely meet people where they are, but it still has to make sense. Let it be something organic. There’s a lot of places the VP can go to get in front of a younger audience. There are influencers Kai’s age. I don’t know. I’m all for meeting people where they are, but it also has to make sense.” Again, an unnecessary take since it looks like they never did what the streamer alleges.
Anywho, did or didn’t the thought was funny but in this election there’s not much room for fun and games with our entire democracy on the line. Just saying.
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