A TikTok creator who was featured in Oprah Winfrey’s town hall interview Vice President Kamala Harris Last week she denounced the use of her video without permission, mocked Harris and vowed she would not vote for her in November.
“So I got my four seconds of fame The Oprah Winfrey ShowAnd out of all the people that were his guests, let me show you who it was,” a TikTok creator behind the account blair_allison said in a video posted Saturday.
TikTok then featured a clip of Winfrey’s town hall-style interview with Harris that aired Thursday evening, in which various people spoke about how the cost of living is hitting average Americans in the pocket, including a video posted by Blair Ellison in November 2023.
“I don’t understand how people are living life right now,” Alison said in the clip.
Vice President Kamala Harris joins Oprah Winfrey at the “Unite for America” livestreaming rally in Farmington Hills, Michigan on September 19, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
The TikTok creator imitated Harris, refuting the circulating clip and stressing that she does not support the Democratic vice president’s run for the Oval Office.
“To my fellow Americans: Let me make one thing very clear, okay? I do not endorse Harris for president,” she said, mocking and mimicking Harris’s often evasive way of speaking. “Okay? I want to be free of who’s been in the White House for the last three and a half years. OK? As I stand here today, on this stage, today, the day after, I just want to tell you, okay, what I stand on and what I stand on today is that I do not endorse Harris for president.”
Harris’s criticism on TikTok has been viewed more than 2 million times on X, and the original TikTok had more than 100,000 views as of Sunday morning.
In a follow-up post on TikTok, the content creator said Winfrey’s team had not obtained permission to show his original video, adding that he “had no idea the clip would be shared when interviewing Kamala Harris.”
“I have made it clear that I do not support Kamala Harris“It’s not like that at all,” he added.
The producer told Fox News Digital via email on Sunday that she is a “very patriotic American and I do not believe Harris puts Americans first, nor has she laid out a plan on how she will improve the livelihoods of Americans,” and as a result will not be voting for Harris in November.
Oprah Winfrey takes the stage at the Democratic National Convention on August 21, 2024 in Chicago. (Reuters/Mike Sager)
“I was disappointed that a well-known talk show like Oprah Winfrey did not even inform me that they were using my clip, which resulted in me not having time to view the footage until people in my community notified me,” he said.
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Blair Ellison’s original video from November that was shown at the town hall focused on how the cost of living was affecting people working on average wages, including teachers and minimum wage workers, with the TikTok creator saying that inflation and cost-of-living problems “really bother me.”
“How are people making a living right now? How are people on the average American salary dealing with this cost of living? I just saw a TikTok of a teacher who earns a teacher’s salary. I don’t know what state he’s in, so I don’t know how much he makes. But what is his salary? A one-bedroom apartment costs $2,000 And when she spends $2,000 on that one-bedroom apartment, it doesn’t even come with a washer and dryer, so she has to pay an extra $2 every time she uses the washer and dryer,” she said in the video that was posted to her TikTok account on November 6, 2023.
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Social media commentators shared the TikTok creator’s rebuttal to the Winfrey interview posted this weekend, in which he lamented how she “savagely” treated Harris and said her response to Harris was “hysterical.”
Harris spoke to Winfrey Thursday at the “Unite for America Rally,” which was a livestream event that featured several celebrities as well as questions and stories from citizens across the country.
Harris has since kept a close distance from the media. Announcing his candidacy for the White House In July, President Biden decided to drop out of the race amid growing concerns about her mental acuity and age. As of Sunday, Harris has not held an official press conference for 63 days as the presumptive and now official Democratic nominee for president.
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After weeks of pressure to give a series of sit-down interviews, Harris ended her interview drought in Georgia last month when she, along with fellow candidate Tim Walz, participated in a pre-recorded piece with CNN’s Dana Bash. She has given several interviews since, including this week’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists and a conversation with Winfrey on Thursday.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign and the group that organized the Unite for America rally regarding the TikTok creator’s rebuttal video, but did not receive a response.
Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood and Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report.
