On Friday, October 25, Vice President Kamala Harris threw what was meant to be one of her biggest concert rallies to date. At such events, as the name suggests, a famous singer performs to draw in more attendees than would otherwise show up to hear Kamala speak. Beyonce was to perform at the Friday rally, but didn’t, leading the crowd to boo Kamala loudly, something that started a huge roar of humor on the internet.
However, in bad news for Kamala, Beyonce didn’t give the fans a performance. Instead, stepping on stage at the Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas, Beyonce just said a few lines. She gave a short speech without any singing, and then stalked off stage, leaving the crowd roaring with disappointment and fury.
In fact, the crowd loudly booed Kamala as she tried to speak, causing chaos. So, the event wasn’t just a big disappointment for the crowd; it was also a big issue for Vice President Harris, as she was obviously hoping that the Beyonce headlining would draw in thousands more people than would otherwise listen to her.
Kylie Jane Kremer, commenting on X about that aspect of the incident and alleging that Beyonce was paid millions, wrote, “Imagine paying $10 mil to get booed at your own rally. It is being reported Beyoncé received an estimated $10mil to endorse & perform in Houston, Texas for Kamala Harris. Beyoncé spoke for ONLY 3 minutes & DID NOT perform resulting in chaos of minutes of boos across the arena.”
As could be predicted, the online response was explosive, with anti-Kamala commenters loving that Kamala had an awful event. One poster, for example, the Cartier Family X account, wrote, “Kamala Harris’s Houston rally was a disaster 😂 people constantly booing her and heckling her. Her campaign is in a complete downward spiral.”
A commenter on that post noted that Kamala was seemingly unable to handle the situation, which could indicate that some of the worse qualities of which she is accused are true. That commenter said, “She literally has no idea how to even handle this when it happens. It shows just how entitled she is and how out of touch she is. What a scum bag.”
Another account joked that the internal polling must be hilarious given that Trump had a great night with Joe Rogan, whereas the Kamala event was a disaster, saying, “When it’s a Friday night and Rogan’s podcast with Trump is about to roll 1,000,000 views after 2 hours of release and Kamala got boo’d so loud that no one could hear her speak at her own rally, I kind of feel like I know what the internal polling looks like for each campaign.”
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Similarly, another account said that the Kamala Campaign is just a disaster, as shown by both the booing and her reaction to it. That account wrote, “Kamala lures supporters into the event expecting a free Beyoncé concert. Then when they realize they’ve been hoodwinked they begin to BOO her. She then tells HER supporters to go down to the Trump rally! This campaign is a TOTAL DISASTER.”
Watch the booing here:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video