Groups associated with the Harris-Walz Campaign have allegedly offered to pay social media influencers six figures to promote Kamala Harris and publicly switch their votes from Donald Trump to Harris.
When Harris became the nominee, the “precision microinfluencer marketing” company “People First” set up a “creator portal” for influencers to “apply” for the job of promoting Harris. A post on the company’s website, titled “Let’s Win This Kamala,” tells influencers that they will be expected to share three posts reflecting their support for Harris.
Join our campaign to help elect Kamala Harris in 2024! This campaign aims to educate your followers about the stakes of this election, increase positive associations with Harris, and build support with audiences like yours. Your voice is powerful — and this is your opportunity to inspire, educate, and influence your community.
In a series of 3 posts online, you will share factual information and personal anecdotes that help your audience connect with your commitment to supporting Harris. We want to know your reasons for saying, “Let’s Do It, Kamala!”
The website’s IP address indicates that it started out as “Let’s Do It Joe,” but apparently switched to “Let’s Win This Kamala” after Biden was forcibly retired.
People First also allegedly reaches out to influencers through email and offers them money to promote Harris.
Nicole Arbour, a Canadian comedienne, singer, actress, and YouTuber, said on her podcast, the Arbour Affect, Friday that she was contacted by several organizations, including People First, and offered $25,000 to support Harris. [Update: Arbour told American Greatness on Sunday that an influencer marketing agency called HypeClash also offered her “six figures” to explain on her podcast why she was switching her vote to Harris.]
TikTok star Meghan Corum went public with her story on Wednesday, claiming she was offered an astounding $50,000 to flip from being a Trump supporter to being a Harris supporter.
During her podcast, Arbour told her followers that she wanted to tell them what’s been going on because this would be her last video before the election.
The comedienne noted that she has made fun of both Harris and Trump, but “I need you guys to know that when celebrities, influencers, musicians, whoever are promoting Harris—it’s because they’re paid.”
Arbour said that she knows this because “different PACS, different groups” associated with the Harris campaign have approached her three times.
“They always come out with the same offer: ‘we want you to promote Kamala, we want you to say these talking points'” she explained.
Arbour displayed an email she received from People First on Sept 8, offering “compensation” for three pro-Harris posts.
Arbour told American Greatness that other agencies and PACs have also reached out to her with lucrative offers for pro-Harris content.
The comedienne called out actress Crishell Stause for a post she published on Instagram that allegedly mimicked Team Harris’ talking points word-for-word.
“Then I see a celebrity like Crishell Stause from ‘Selling Sunset’ with a copy-paste of that exact email, and then she posts vote! vote! looking super hot in the picture!”
“Make sure you’re registered and ready to vote by November 5th—our rights and our future depend on it,” Stause’s message begins.
Stances on a women’s right to govern her own body and access to healthcare, IVF, contraception, Plan B, LGBTQ+ rights, lowering healthcare costs, and taxing the rich to pay their fair share for the greater good are a few of the reasons I will be voting for @KamalaHarris
Politicians work for us, and so although I am voting for Kamala, that doesn’t mean I back every policy she has ever had or may have. It means I’ve done my research and I believe she is easily the best candidate to lead our country to a brighter future.
I love my country and I am sending love to you even if we disagree.
Arbour pointed out that none of the influencers doing this have acknowledged that their Harris promotions were “paid posts.”
“It’s propaganda!” she exclaimed. “I don’t know how it’s not considered illegal to do that! Any other time if we’re not making it obvious that we’re promoting something we’re paid to promote, we get in trouble,” she added.
Arbour said the last offer she got from “Kamala Harris’ team” was $25,000 to post just a couple of stories on her Instagram.
She said she had a couple of other “really big offers” but decided not to take any of them because she is a big supporter of the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) agenda.
“We are this close to having a healthy America, from getting us out of this frickin’ pharmaceutical haze we’ve been in, to getting us healthy food again, to get the pesticides off of our food.”
“Why do we have so much cancer? Why do we have so many diseases?” she added. “These are things we can fix in my lifetime? I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t take the money. It felt like blood money.”
Arbour told American Greatness that she believes “100 percent” of the celebrities who have recently come out publicly to endorse Harris were compensated for their support—including Cardi B.
Corum, who has over 358,000 followers on TikTok, said that she normally avoids talking about politics because it can be so divisive and she doesn’t feel like she should be influencing how other people vote. However, she thinks she may have attracted the attention of the Harris Campaign when she livestreamed from a recent Trump rally.
Corum revealed that two days after she attended the rally, she received an email from the management company saying it was looking for influencers to attend a Harris rally a couple of days before the election.
“They’re looking for people who can essentially say that they supported the other side, and they’ve switched,” she explained in a video posted on TikTok.
Corum said the company offered to pay her and a friend’s full travel expenses, as well as a “flat fee” in exchange for switching her vote and posting pro-Harris videos on TikTok, and “some Vlog type stories.”
Corum did not reveal the name of the management company and didn’t respond to multiple texts from American Greatness requesting that information. She posted an email from the company saying they were targeting “high vibe hotties” for an upcoming event in Las Vegas and offering to fly her to Ann Arbor, Mich. for a Harris rally.
The company urged her to name her price.
Harris held a campaign rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on October 28, 2024.
“Morally, I could just never go and support someone that I myself cannot stand behind,“ Corum told her TikTok followers. She said her husband urged her to “put a number out there” to see how much the campaign was willing to pay for these services.
Corum said that in addition to all of her and her friend’s expenses paid for, she demanded $50,000, which she considered and absurd, exorbitant amount of money.
“It was obviously a joke because who the hell would pay me $50,000 to attend a rally?” she said, adding incredulously that the company quickly got back to her saying, “that’s great.”
The influencer, who is from North Carolina, said her “blood was boiling.”
“Y’all do know that part of North Carolina just got washed away and they have no homes, not to mention, people are dying” she said. “And you’re going to pay me $50,000 to attend a rally for you and promote you on TikTok?”
Corum said she knew a lot of people would advise her to take the money, but it “just didn’t sit well” for her.
“I don’t like it and I no longer am going to keep quiet about how I feel and what I believe and if that causes some of you to dislike me and unfollow me then I’m so sorry,” she said. “I respect you and I love you anyways.”
@meghancorum I had no idea that this was a real thing and im disgusted. Go out and vote because our future depends on it. If you dont agree with me then i still love and respect you 🫶🏼 #trump2024🇺🇸 #trumpsupporters #donaldtrump #election2024 #kamalaharris
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