They ditched the eighty-something President. Now they’re obsessing over the coolness of a younger president? Kamala Harris will be 60 in October. It’s now time for the promotional progressive press to lean into how cool Kamala is, that she’s being endorsed by 21-year-old pop stars and will be the cool candidate on Saturday Night Live this fall.
Several networks gushed over Maya Rudolph playing (not mocking) Harris on SNL. CNN’s Dana Bash said she was ‘very, very, excited.’ Her colleague Abby Phillip said Rudolph was coming back “because we need it.” That implies Kamala must be affirmed. SNL is the MSNBC of political satire.
MSNBC host Ari Melber insisted that the comedians were crucial, that impressing young voters with the pop-culture cool vibes could put several states “in play.” Comedian Roy Wood told Phillip on CNN that SNL “during an election year…
