Usually the sign of a bad party is one where all the guests are glued to their phones. A post-convention gathering in Chicago was designed to do just that.
Late Tuesday night, another identity-driven group of liberals gathered for an exclusive and carefully curated event: the Hotties for Harris afterparty.
The party was all about feminism, sex and the aftermath. The walls were decorated in pink and brat green, and the messages were meant to shock: exactly the kind of content that thrives on platforms like TikTok.
The bill for the morning-after emergency contraception was distributed via a gumball machine. “Plan B, nom nom nom,” the machine read. In fact, early pregnancy tests, morning-after pills, and UTI medications were distributed in every room at the event.
The event organizers wanted to create a sensory experience for content creators so they could share their message on social media platforms.
Upon entering, there was a “wall of weirdos.” JD Vance, of course, was hanging high in the air in a portrait on the wall, along with a prominent photo of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump, his two sons, Sen. Marco Rubio, Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Jim Jordan, and others.
The next wall was the “hall of hotties.” There were no Republicans on this wall. Governor Tim Walz had a portrait front and center next to Kamala Harris. They were joined by portraits of Doug Emhoff, Joe Biden, Stacey Adams, Jason Kelce, Ariana Grande, Nancy Pelosi, and Olivia Rodrigo.
The portraits have little in common physically, and none of them have ever made the cover of People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful” issue. So what’s a “hottie for Harris”?
“Attractiveness” is usually a quality determined by outsiders, but the organizers of this group want people to identify themselves as “attractive.”
Doug Emhoff is said to be a hottie because he supports his wife Harris’ career, sees her as his equal and doesn’t conform to traditional gender roles.
Walz is a hottie, they say, because in 1999 he signed on as the founding faculty advisor for his school’s gay/straight alliance.
“Supporting women’s rights is hot. Being anti-abortion is not,” explained Liz Plank, who goes by the Instagram handle @feministabulous and has nearly 600,000 followers.
“As a woman who has frozen her eggs and plans to use IVF, I am appalled that JD Vance would take away our right to have a family. Men who take away women’s rights are not modest, not very thoughtful.”
Bullying JD Vance was a recurring theme at the event – even more so than Trump.
Next to a gaudy gold bench emblazoned with the words “Property of J.D. Vance” was a statue of the vice presidential candidate. “This statue honors J.D. Vance—the most awkward man in America,” it read, along with a list of rhyming and alliterative nicknames like “the Bearded Weird” and “Uncle Uncomfortable.”
At the event, posters were hung up proclaiming that a Trump presidency would mean the end of sex.
“Sex will soon be illegal! It all has to go,” “Trump-Vance. Sex ends November 5th,” “Stop sex, vote red!” read a few. “Tim Walz fucked me!” read one.
Party favors also included sleep masks emblazoned with the words “my kink is equality” and drinks included coconuts with straws and cocktail umbrellas – a reference to Harris’s now infamous line about falling from a coconut tree.
Another room featured arcade-style games such as “whack a weird policy” and “abortion access skeetball.”
There was ‘feminist mini-golf’ where each hole had a different theme: a ‘single cat ladies’ hole was decorated with cats. There was a ‘mansplaining’ hole and a ‘period tax’ hole decorated with tampons.
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion debuted “hotties for Harris” at a campaign rally on July 30.
“For me, being a hottie for Harris means that we’re having fun, that we’re dancing, that we’re listening to fun music, that we’re partying, that we’re having a good time. We’re having conversations about reproductive health and what it means to have freedom in every aspect of our lives,” Mariana Pecora, spokesperson for youth mobilization group Voters of Tomorrow, told DailyMail.com.
At the United Center for the DNC, influencers have ousted traditional journalists for space and access. The Harris team is counting on viral online videos to get their message in front of young people.
The DNC has recognized more than 200 “content creators,” marking the first time that YouTube, TikTok and Instagram stars have been embraced. These people have young followings but often don’t get their news from traditional media.
A new survey from Voters of Tomorrow found that 67 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds had heard of Project 2025, the left-wing bogeyman policy plan outlined by the Heritage Foundation and denounced even by Trump himself. Sixty-five percent of them had heard about it via social media.
“Social media and especially organic, user-driven content that comes from an authentic place, which is young people, is driving the information ecosystem around this election cycle in a way that is really important,” Pecora said.
‘Our generation is taking up an ever-increasing share of the electorate. By 2028, young people and millennials will be the largest voting bloc.’