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Kamala Harris Chooses Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as Vice President's Running Mate
Life imitates art? Veep sees a sudden rise in ratings after the announcement that VP Kamala Harris is the likely Democratic presidential nominee, after President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race and endorsing his second.
Viewership of the HBO series’ first season on Max jumped 353% yesterday, July 22, to 2.2 million total minutes watched after news broke that Harris had secured enough pledged delegates to claim the nomination, according to Luminate’s Streaming Viewership data. That’s compared to 486,000 total minutes watched on Sunday, July 21.
The circumstances are remarkably similar for Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Selina Meyer and Harris. In Veep , Meyer (Dreyfus), a U.S. senator from Maryland, runs for president but loses the nomination to Stewart Hughes (who is never depicted onscreen). She later joins the Hughes ticket and is elected as Hughes' vice president. In season 2, Hughes abruptly resigns due to his wife's poor mental health and Meyer becomes president.
