Kamala Harris presented herself to the nation she hopes to lead in the climactic minute of the Democratic nationwide convention on Thursday — and inspiteof chatter about capacity secret visitors, Beyoncé’s just look was over the speakers.
In the end, it was the most standard of convention minutes coming through tv screens: the prospect, her running mate and their households bathed in the cheers of advocates, with balloons drifting from the rafters.
There hadactually been an anticipatory stateofmind as the night took shape, and it wasn’t simply for Harris. For days, there were reports of an look by mega-stars Taylor Swift or Beyoncé, whose tune “Freedom” hasactually been embraced by the vice president as a project style.
“If she’s not, they muchbetter come up with something,” stated NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie.
An NBC pressreporter roaming the convention flooring asked delegates what they would believe about a Beyoncé look. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, stationed to the side of the phase, keptinmind quickly inthepast Harris appeared that a drape was obstructing a view that she had throughout the convention of individuals who had grated about backstage.
Rumors were dispersing online to the point where Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican governmental candidate, published on X: “Contrary to incorrect news posts, I am not the surprise visitor at the DNC tonight. My guess is that it will be Beyoncé or Taylor Swift. So frustrating, I understand!”
Emmy Ruiz, the White House director of political technique and outreach, published a bee emoji on her X account earlier in the day. Was it a signal to the “Bey-hive”? She rapidly composed, “Sorry guys my 6 year old took my phone.”
Shortly before 8 p.m. Eastern, the celeb news website TMZ published a story that stated: “Beyoncé is in Chicago, and getting prepared to pop out for Kamala Harris on the last night of the Democratic convention.” The website associated it to “multiple sources in the understand,” none of them called.
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