by Frank Holmes, reporter
The Fake News media have gone out of their way to pretend everything is going great with Kamala Harris’ campaign for president—but inside, everyone is worried the wheels might be coming off.
Harris, who is infamous for wasting her lead and running through staff, has seen the rise in the polls she experienced after Joe Biden dropped out level off.
Even friendly media outlets have begun to point out the way she has held almost no sit-down media interviews with just over a month to go until election day.
And now, the campaign has news of a huge financial downturn…one that could ruin Harris and make her brand toxic.
The entire disaster unfolded at lightning speed—and the fallout may not have settled yet.
It all started just days after Joe Biden let himself be forced out of the 2024 presidential contest.
Biden withdrew on July 21; Kamala Harris had “won” enough Democratic Party delegates to wrap up the party’s presidential nomination the next day, July 22.
On July 23, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, publicly endorsed Kamala Harris.
“Congrats to Kamala Harris — now it is time to win,” wrote Hastings…but that’s not where his support ended.
Congrats to Kamala Harris — now it is time to win
— Reed Hastings (@reedhastings) July 23, 2024
“He also donated about $7 million U.S. to her campaign,” reported Australia’s Sky News.
On July 24, Hastings told The Information he had made the high seven-figure donation to a super PAC that’s backing Kamala Harris’ presidential bid.
As it turns out, Trump supporters watch TV, too—and from now on, they say, they’re watching something else.
Subscribers who backed former President Donald Trump flooded X and other social media platforms with a simple hashtag that doubled as a call to arms: #CancelNetflix.
Soon, Netflix’s customer service representatives were deluged with cancellations.
The streaming service’s phones started ringing off the wall.
Within 48 hours, of Hastings’ admission in The Information, Netflix had the highest rate of canceled subscriptions of the year.
“Mr. Hastings endorsed Mrs. Harris on July 22nd,” reported Australia’s Sky News. “Four days later, Netflix suffered its worst day of the year for cancellations on July 26nd”…the worst days of the year (so far).
The cancellation rate hit an incredible 2.8 percent…the very highest level since February, according to NewsMax TV.
Bloomberg News—the financial news service founded and run by 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg—said the extremely high rate of cancellations during those specific days was “unusual…even for July.”
In fact, the number of cancellations ran so far against the standard industry trends that it made headlines across the world.
Nach Unterstützung für Kamala Harris: Netflix brechen die Abonnenten weg – https://t.co/8mM1OlbZDy pic.twitter.com/LOJXs5lY6A
— Journalistenwatch 🇩🇪 (@jouwatch) October 3, 2024
It looked like Netflix might go the way of Bud Light.
But “the spike in cancellations, it only lasted a few days,” said Sky News.
NEW – Netflix Saw Its Worst Day of Cancellations This Year After Co-Founder Donated $7M to Kamala Harris
"Mr. Hastings endorsed Mrs. Harris on July 22nd…Four days later, Netflix suffered its worst day of the year for cancellations on July 26nd" pic.twitter.com/ViNa1AsVky
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) September 30, 2024
Some customers have pointed out that the cancellation spike came one week to the day after Netflix announced it was removing the lowest-cost, ad-free streaming package for customers in the United States and France…but there’s more to this cancellation spike than meets the eye.
Netflix has had a long-running political bias to the Left…and it has paid the price with mass cancellations in the past.
The online streaming giant had announced a special deal with Barack and Michelle Obama shortly after the former First Family formed their own production company in 2018. Neither the company nor the Obamas announced how much subscriber money went into the multi-year deal…but everyone assumes it runs into millions upon millions of dollars.
The company had ties to Obama’s successor, Joe Biden: In September 2020, officials arrested Jerry Harris, the star of the Netflix documentary series Cheer, on child porn charges. Harris reportedly sexted underage twin boys, then cornered them in the bathroom and asked them to perform oral sex on him. Harris had starred in online ads for the Biden campaign.
Netflix itself faced charges over hosting and distributing softcore child porn by streaming the controversial, French film Cuties, which showed prepubescent girls shaking and dancing in provocative and sexually fraught ways.
The service showered a cool $100 million on another unlikable power couple: Harry and Meghan Markle, the former royals.
Netflix also got sued over a documentary on the Central Park Five in 2020.
It’s a miracle there’s anything left to boycott…and if Kamala Harris continues her current economic policies, there may not be.