Bait & Switch Alert! Here's What Happens When a Crowd Comes for Beyonce but Gets Kamala Harris

The Harris campaign's event in Houston had been billed as her largest event to date, and there was a reason they could say that.

Here in Houston, the emcee asked Kamala Harris’ rally to do a “blue wave.” Crowd count is the largest yet for a Harris event, 30,000, per a campaign official. pic.twitter.com/ZMCIhuZ93d
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 26, 2024

The media called it a "Harris rally" but as it turns out much of the crowd showed up to see and hear Beyoncé. This is part of the Harris-Walz campaign's tone-deaf strategy of bringing in super-rich celebs to tell everybody the economy is great and will get better if the current VP gets a promotion.

It couldn't have been more obvious that the reason tens of thousands of people turned out was because of the promise of a Beyoncé performance:

Why did @KamalaHarris @IanSams @NBCNews @HuffPost @USATODAY @VanityFair and countless others tell us we were getting a performance last night in Houston? What went wrong? pic.twitter.com/YGRd7HvhGz
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) October 26, 2024

And so thousands and thousands turned out:

The expanding line at the Beyoncé concert aka Harris rally tonight in Houston. pic.twitter.com/Rmeo2o6JRj
— Kellie Meyer (@KellieMeyerNews) October 25, 2024

Next came something that couldn't have been a more appropriate metaphor for the entire Harris campaign.

Beyoncé spoke briefly, endorsing Harris, and then... left.

Beyoncé really showed up at the rally only to speak for a few seconds and not perform, leaving Kamala Harris to be *booed* by her fans.

Watching this campaign operate is like watching a naked man smear himself in honey and run through a bear cage.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 26, 2024

REPORT: Beyoncé endorses Kamala Harris at Houston rally, but doesn't perform any songs, leaving some attendees frustrated and feeling duped
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) October 26, 2024

The Harris campaign lied to everyone that there was going to be a Beyoncé concert last night.

The media thought that’s what they’d see.

But Beyoncé didn’t sing.

Harris isn’t enough of a draw so they had to actually lie about the program. Pretty unbelievable. https://t.co/H91pxkeC0Z
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) October 26, 2024

Many in the crowd were clearly not happy when they realized they'd been basically tricked into showing up.

So … Democrats used Beyoncé as a draw for Kamala’s rally.

But she didn’t perform?

No wonder the crowd booed. lol
— The🎃FOO (@PolitiBunny) October 26, 2024

Attendees at Kamala's alleged rally last night... pic.twitter.com/R50hoah6dN
— Blue State Snooze (@BlueSnoozeBlue) October 26, 2024

Can you feel the "joy" as the crowd realized Beyonce had given Harris a brief endorsement and then left without performing?

Watch and listen:

The Beyonce concert featuring Kamala is off to a great start 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/4KMmbb0epv
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 26, 2024

The campaign really should have dug deep into their fundraising war chest to pay Beyonce to sing, because it would have been a much better boost than letting the candidate speak... or try to speak:

UPDATE: The Beyonce concert featuring Kamala has devolved into a total and complete disaster in which Kamala is barely audible on the feed. Humiliating! pic.twitter.com/58549cgyAc
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 26, 2024

Kamala tells the audience "momentum on our side" as virtually every metric shows her hemorrhaging support.

You can hear the desperation in her voice — excruciatingly embarrassing! pic.twitter.com/oic4yT8o22
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 26, 2024

Will these "supporters" learn anything from the experience?

Wonder if her supporters will connect the dots that if she’s willing to bait-and-switch them on the campaign trail, when she needs their votes, she’ll bait-and-switch on her policies if she’s POTUS (and doesn’t need their votes until 2028).

I bet some of them did last night. https://t.co/xVUNnYy2Qy
— Amy Curtis 🇮🇱 (@RantyAmyCurtis) October 26, 2024

The dots are easy to connect when it comes to the manufactured and fake Harris campaign, because there are only two of them.