Get the latest gossip

They’re Back: Kamala Harris Fires Up Hollywood’s Power Brokers

Literally overnight, big-dollar Democratic donors who’d been nervously sitting on their checkbooks since Joe Biden’s debate debacle have been lining up to shower millions on their candidate.

It isn’t discussed much — it’s not something people immediately think of when they think of Harris, not as well-known a piece of her public persona as her childhood in Oakland or her early years as a Bay Area prosecutor — but that house in Brentwood makes it true just the same: The possible next president of the United States is an Angeleno. For starters, her husband, law professor Doug Emhoff — possibly America’s future First Gentleman — used to be an entertainment attorney at Belin Rawlings & Badal, where he represented clients like Hollywood Video and the ad agency TBWA (the brain trust behind Taco Bell’s Chihuahua mascot in the 1990s). To be honest, a few might be crazy enthusiastic just to stick it to Silicon Valley, which has thrown a lot of support to Trump, with moguls like Elon Musk, Ben Horowitz and Peter Thiel endorsing the MAGA ticket.

Get the Android app