During a recent appearance on The Best People with Nicolle Wallace podcast, actress and former host of The View, Rosie Perez, said that she foresaw Kamala Harris losing the 2024 presidential election and attempted to warn campaign members. But she claimed that her warning fell on deaf ears.
Perez, 61, said that she entered “neighborhoods that nobody wants to go into” and campaigned for Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), Fox News reported.
“And I’m going into these neighborhoods and even when I was on the campaign for Kamala, which was, I’m just going to be honest, it wasn’t a good campaign, and I told you that,” Perez said on Monday’s episode of the podcast.
The podcast’s host, Nicolle Wallace, also admitted that Perez discussed the same issue with her, but she disregarded it.
“You didn’t want to hear it. Nobody wanted to hear from me. I remember I said, ‘She’s going to lose,'” Perez stated.
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“I knew it on the calls from what people were telling me because I have learned through people who are MAGA in my family, and some people who are friends and everything. I have learned to stop yelling, and I’ve learned to listen more. And when I was on those calls, and I’m listening to people who are Democrats and independents and Republicans, they were all saying the same thing. They wanted the same thing. It was ‘the economy, stupid.’ That was it.”
Perez continued: “Nobody cared about social issues or anything like that. They were struggling, and they wanted something to change on that level. That was it. That was it. And it blew my mind that so many people were on the same page, regardless of party.”
Per ABC News, Perez and pro-Harris leaders had Zoom calls. She said that though she attempted to warn the campaign, “nobody was listening” to her.
“I’ve gotten apologies, not from everybody, but I’ve gotten apologies,” she added.
In an interview with NPR before the election, Perez touched on a Trump rally where a comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, received backlash over comments he made about Puerto Rico. At the time, she said his comments were a “political gift.”
“We were given a gift by the Republican Party on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, and we’re capitalizing on it. And so that’s why I’m here,” Perez, who reportedly campaigned for Harris in Pennsylvania, said at the time. “It just boggles my mind that people still want to vote for this man.”
