Kamala Harris campaign never contacted Kai Cenat for Twitch collab: report
YOUTUBE: Kai Cenat Live / WIKIMEDIA COMMONSTwitch star Kai Cenat says he has turned down an opportunity to collaborate with Kamala Harris, but the Presidential candidate’s campaign says they never contacted the streamer.
During a livestream on August 7, Kai Cenat claimed that the Secret Service had contacted him multiple times about a stream with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, which he said he’d declined because he doesn’t care about politics.
“I’ve got the f**king Secret Service calling me five times! I don’t know goddamn sh*t about politics! I don’t know nothing!” the Twitch star shouted while slamming the table, causing his camera to fall. “Imma go ahead and say it. I don’t give a f**k. Okay?”
The streamer then vented about how a “bad b*tch” he hasn’t spoken to in a year reached out to him about the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. He said: “I haven’t spoken to this girl in so goddamn long, who gone have the audacity to text me ‘We need you to be a part of the campaign.'”
The 22-year-old said he was initially confused, thinking she was referring to a video game like Modern Warfare or a clothing brand. “I’m like, ‘What campaign?’” he said.
Kai then stated: “If this someway, somehow, something happens and I go into streaming politics? I’m going to be 100% honest. I’m going to sit on my stream, and say ‘Why did you guys call me?’”
“You know?” the streamer asked as he laughed. “Like, I don’t know! I’ve never done anything with politics. And these blogs are like, trying to say ‘Yo, you gotta do this sh*t, Kai.’ And it’s all the top blogs! And I’m like, bro, since when?”
Many fans supported Kai’s decision to stay out of politics. “This is insane man, but you got to respect him for keeping his political views private,” one Twitter/X user commented.
However, according to TMZ, the Harris campaign hasn’t actually reached out to Cenat. That said, Kai’s team was supposedly in contact with a third-party organization with ties to the DNC’s convention team in an effort to get the streamer to do something involving the convention in Chicago later in August.
TMZ reports that these conversations were held before Joe Biden decided to drop out of the race, and at this point, the Harris team hasn’t been involved in any negotiations.
This comes after Kick streamer Adin Ross hosted Donald Trump for an interview on his stream, which quickly became his most-viewed broadcast ever.