Well, it looks like we have a new president. (Well, not new, but you know what I mean.) With his come from behind success in the Electoral College, President Donald Trump pulled off one of the greatest political comebacks in U.S. history. But how did he get there? And what impact did pop culture figures like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk have on his electoral success?
Vice President Kamala Harris may have appeared on Saturday Night Live, Howard Stern and The View, but that clearly wasn't enough to get her to appeal to a wider set of voters. Trump did far less traditional press, but he did spend three hours talking to Joe Rogan on his podcast, an episode that was downloaded and streamed by millions of people. In some respects, Trump's campaign media strategy was almost exclusively on social media, which, in retrospect, was a smart decision. (Having the support of Elon Musk, who owns X, formerly Twitter, definitely helped in that category.) So even though he didn't have the celerity names like Beyonce, Lady Gaga, or Bruce Springsteen, Trump still proved (once again) that sometimes the path to victory is the unexpected one.
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Journalist Ilana Kaplan remembers one of the first Nora Ephron movies she saw—1998's You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan—in a theater when she was about 10. To Kaplan, the onscreen romantic chemistry between the two fictitious lead characters, rival booksellers Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly, drew her attention. "I just fawn over the end of the movie, before they actually kiss in the park," Kaplan told Newsweek, "Joe is walking with Kathleen and trying to get her to forgive him for putting her out of business by comparing the situation to her forgiving this guy who 'stood her up.' He goes, 'Oh, how I wish you would.' The way he looks at her and says that line—it just gives me chills every time."
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