a poster showing Kamala Harris A photo of her in Eagles gear that read, “Kamala, Official Candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles,” was seen at a Philadelphia bus stop last week and was later discovered to be a fake.
The artist who took credit for this artwork, Philadelphia natives Winston Tseng issued a statement on Monday claiming the poster was meant to be sarcastic and should never have been put up in a public place. He denied that he had any knowledge of how the poster got there.
“The absurd poster of Kamala Harris wearing an Eagles helmet is my artwork, but I have no idea how it ended up on a bus stop in Philadelphia,” Tseng wrote.
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Tseng claims that when he created the photo, it was not intended to promote the Harris campaign. Instead, it was meant to satirize the concept of celebrities or sports organizations endorsing political candidates.
“My work uses brands and advertising to communicate social issues. On one level, the poster is a parody of the ads we see on I-95 promoting the ‘official beer’ or the ‘official accounting firm of the Philadelphia Eagles.’ But the title of this work is ‘political endorsement,’ and that’s the issue,” Tseng said. “Why do we care what Hulk Hogan or any other corporation endorses? Yet here we are, and I think the strong reaction we’ve seen to this satirical endorsement is a reflection of our times.”
The posters were first seen on the first two days of September at 16th and Spring Garden Streets, 18th Street and JFK Boulevard, and 34th and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia. The poster pictured below at 16th and Spring Garden Streets was later removed last Monday afternoon.
However, the posters also featured a URL below the caption that directed to the Eagles Voting website, which shows past Pennsylvania and New Jersey primary election voting timelines from the spring. It also provided links for first-time voters, polling locations, and directions for voter registration and requesting a ballot.
Eagles’ political ad supporting Kamala Harris for president is ‘fake,’ NFL team says
Democratic presidential candidate, US Vice President Kamala Harris addresses a campaign rally at Enmarket Arena in Savannah, Georgia on August 29, 2024. Harris has been campaigning in southeastern Georgia for the past two days. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Tseng has previously Posted photos There is discussion of posters he designed, including one that used the company’s official brand at a Philadelphia bus stop, including a Ben & Jerry’s themed poster of President Biden that showed him eating an ice cream cone, with the caption “Rocky Road to Democracy.”
Tseng also posted a photo One of their posters featured former President Trump posing as he used the brand Pepto Bismol. The poster showed Trump against a white background and read: “Nausea, heartburn, rebellion, upset stomach, diarrhea.
Meanwhile, the Harris Eagles posters surfaced just a week ahead of Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Harris and Trump at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which will be broadcast on ABC.
These posters prompted a sharp reaction from a Philadelphia resident identified as Fox 29 As for Joe from South Philly. The man took it upon himself cover up The posters at the bus station carried screenshots of the Eagles’ official statement, which described the posters as fake.
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Joe from South Philly, a Philadelphia Eagles fan, printed copies of the Eagles’ statement to hide a fake political ad that showed the team endorsing presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris. (Fox 29)
“My concern here is not that someone is expressing their opinion, which everyone has a right to express, but that this person is lying to everyone who uses this stop. That’s what I’m very concerned about — the fact that they’re spreading lies that the Philadelphia Eagles have endorsed.” Kamala Harris “As candidates for president in the United States, we all know that Philadelphia is a battleground state for Pennsylvania, and these types of lies are things that prevent integrity in the election process,” Joe said.
a city spokesman said NBC Philadelphia Someone may have broken into the locked area where the bus station posters were kept and replaced the posters there with fake pro-Harris posters.
“This was not a digital breach; whoever is responsible for the illegally placed posters broke into a securely covered shelter advertising space and somehow placed the posters in that space. Intersection has advised the City’s Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (OTIS) that they plan to do a complete inventory of all bus shelters tomorrow and remove any illegal posters. The City has a process to review all bus shelter advertisements, but this, again, was not a digital advertisement.”
Pennsylvania could be the “tipping point” in the 2024 presidential election, according to election and polling analysis. Betting odds on Harris winning Pennsylvania show she would win 270 electoral votes compared to Vice President Donald Trump’s 268, but if Trump wins the commonwealth, he would get 287 electoral votes compared to Harris’ 251.
Polls in the state have shown that Trump has gained a lead and has reduced Harris’s previous lead in the state.
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