> “Trump’s stance of being against elites, and his supporters are not elitists and fighting against elitists — that messaging came out of his campaign,” said Jennifer Brubaker, an associate professor in the communications department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

“And now you have Harris’s campaign, which is tied to these celebrities who are, in fact, often thought to be elitists themselves. So really it just reinforced much of [Trump’s] message in that regard,” the “Celebrity and the American Political Process: Integrated Marketing Communication” author said.