The Kamala Harris-Tim Walz camouflage “midwest princess” hat, seemingly inspired by singer Chappell Roan, has reached nearly $1m in sales in 24 hours.
On August 6, Vice President Harris declared the Minnesota governor as her Democratic running mate for the 2024 presidential election this November. In the official announcement video posted by Harris, an ecstatic Walz was featured, celebrating his bid as her vice president candidate from the comfort of his home. The 60-year-old politician dressed in a simple outfit: a black T-shirt, khaki bottoms, and a camouflage baseball cap.
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The $40 “Harris-Walz Camo Hat” is available on the campaign’s website. According to Teen Vogue, 3,000 hats were sold within 30 minutes of the sale going live. Since then, sales have amounted to nearly $1m, according to Teen Vogue’s report.
On the website, the hat is said to be “American made, union made” and all profits go to the Harris Victory Fund. “The most iconic political hat in America,” the description reads. And Bon Iver thinks so as well. The iconic musician was photographed wearing it on stage at a Harris-Walz campaign rally in Wisconisn on August 7.
Now do camo sneakers. With gold trim. Just to poke the bear 😉
That’s a great idea if you want to be honest. I don’t often see camo sneakers; they’d definitely stand out.
I think the idea is that camo doesn’t stand out.
I don’t often see camoflauge sneakers
That just means they’re doing their job!
This is the news that will make Fox News shit their pants. When you lose camo folks, you have nowhere to go but down
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Please don’t discriminate because of a name.
I’m highly prejudiced against any Condé Nast publication.
Arstechnica has really good tech coverage as well despite being a Conde Nast publication as well
What about the pretty pictures in the traveler magazine my dentist still puts in the waiting room?
Honestly, they’ve been doing good IJ for their niche for almost a decade
No bullshit: Teen Vogue has better political coverage than CNN.
Actual facts here.
I’ll take it.
Ha, the left can’t wear red hats anymore but now the right can’t wear camo hats anymore. That will hit them where it hurts.
And it’s sold out on their site.
Yeah, just ran into the same issue trying to order one.
It’s on pre-order now.
You know where I get my political news and statistics? Teen Vogue. Besides giving the latest on how Bieber is doing, it’s just like so cool and stuff.
? Are you joking? You would only say that seriously if you haven’t paid attention to politics (or if you’re a teenager).
Since you mentioned Justin Bieber, I assume you are older. Teen Vogue has had hard hitting politics articles for years:
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2023/teen-vogue-turns-20-blends-politics-personal/
Here, read a little and educate yourself, Teen Vogue has been doing fantastic investigative journalism for a good while now.
Anecdotally, I spent 12 hours at Disneyland a few weeks.back, and only clocked one maga hat. I gave him my best sneer, but he was too cowardly to join the line for Mr Toad’s Wild Ride with us. It’s just as well; they really should have based the ride on the far superior Rankin/Bass film.
Boo, I love Mr Toad’s and I’m still bummed they took it out of World even though I haven’t worked there in a decade.
It’s also the source of one of the best ‘Cast Member lore’ stories I’ve heard. The story goes that a woman goes up to the greeter and asks him “What’s the ride about?” and he responds “You get hit by a train and go to hell!” The guest is upset by his response and storms off into the queue line. A few minutes later she runs back up to the greeter, excited. “You were completely right, you get hit by a train and go to hell!”
I’m really dismayed by your political system - I can’t put into words how much it disturbs me. I know it’s a good thing that the Harris Walz campaign is doing well, but all I hear when seeing news like this is how much money politicians are taking from “average” people to give to insanely rich advertising firms, to develop ads, and even more insanely rich media corporations, to run them. It’s messed up.
Ideally campaigns would be funded via taxes, merch sold purely at cost, and strict laws against soliciting donations or running privately funded ads
There is no need for official political merch anyway, it’s not a band or a sports team. I don’t mind if people or associations make and wear them, bit why does a political party need to sell stuff?
The same reason that PBS sells tote bags.
How so? Even if it’s a no-profit, PBS is still a business. Even though they are operated like one in the US, political parties are not supposed to be businesses.
To raise funds in order to keep operations going.
It’s not all ads and media. It’s a little tough to get a good source on it, but somewhere between 30 and 50% seem to go to ads based on some older campaigns. The rest go to things like operations (offices, staff), consulting (political strategy, focus groups, etc) and other smaller things like travel and supplies and such.
Those later things can make a bigger difference than the ads, too. If Hillary spent better on her operations in Michigan, for instance, her team would have been more aware of her vulnerabilities. More money wouldn’t have helped there, though, as her campaign was already flush with cash and was misspending it on places like Florida.
I wish hats fit me.
Sorry for your loss
Sold out. ☹️
i’ve never in my 40+ years bought any political campaign merch, and i just spent $50 in the harris walz store
HARRIS WALZ ARE CLOSING IN ON TRUMP 2024
Honestly I wasn’t going to either (because I prefer to directly donate) but when I saw that amrican/union-made label I instantly went for it. I am a sucker for American manufactured goods.
in a way it kind of sucks that we don’t have the huge selection and variety of merch that GOP has. but dems just don’t idolize their candidates to a fraction of a degree that trump voters do, so it’s not cost effective for them to offer tons of different things. oh well
I went to a touristy area full of Tshirt shops recently and every shop had at least one poorly made trump shirt on display. I strongly suspect they do not financially support trump with those sales
if you’re devoid of morals and never heard of “ethics” and you see gullible suckers throwing money at trump, then yea–you’re going to sell bootleg trump shit. guaranteed profits
Same. I still have all my US union-labor made merch from both of Sanders’ previous primary campaigns. And it still looks and feels great.
They got me with a dark brandon mug when Biden was still running. All their stuff is union made and they lean into the memes more than I expected
I look at half of this stuff as a limited edition collectible, I’ve got a box with some shirts and pins and stickers from various candidates and causes.
That dark brandon mug is going to be cool as fuck when your grandkids come across it.
IT’S AMERICAN MANUFACTURED? Hol up let me check how much I got in my savings account
Edit: link for those who want it
https://store.kamalaharris.com/harris-walz-printed-camo-hat/
The perfect attire for those times when you have a deer hunting trip in the morning and a political rally in the evening!
ok highest selling for now but once the jd vance couch condom, er I mean cover, comes out it will change things.