The Hill reports celebrities are pulling for Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris in CA Sen:
Federal Election Commission records show plenty of top-tier stars are getting out their checkbooks ahead of the June 2016 primary and the November 2016 general election.
Big-name celebrities — including John Legend, Seth MacFarlane, Sean Penn, and Sheryl Sandberg — are coughing up big cash to back Kamala Harris in her Senate bid.
The Hill elaborates on Harris’ donations from ultra-rich California celebrities:
“Family Guy” creator MacFarlane shelled out more than $5,000 dollars to Harris’s campaign. Politically active “All of Me” singer Legend, a supporter of President Obama and frequent visitor to Washington, donated $2,000. Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer and author of Lean In, gave $5,200. “Milk” star Sean Penn also donated more than $5,000.
Famed director Rob Reiner, who was behind the camera on hits such as “When Harry Met Sally …,”“The Princess Bride,” and “This is Spinal Tap,” steered $2,700 Harris’s way with a donation in late March. Laurie David, the producer of 2006’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” offered up $5,400, the maximum amount an individual can give to a single candidate in a two-year election cycle.
While Kamala Harris is raking in thousands from A-list Hollywood donors, many rank-and-file Democrats are pulling for newly-announced candidate, Rep. Loretta Sanchez.
Grassroots Democrats had previously expressed discontent over the California liberal establishment’s overwhelming support of Harris, paving the way for a more populist underdog like Sanchez to make her way into the sparse Democratic primary field.
Will Kamala’s Hollywood support be enough to earn her the Democratic nomination for Senate? Or will she be overtaken by Rep. Loretta Sanchez?
The California Democratic divide only continues to deepen as this primary battle heats up.