Celebrity A-listers from Hollywood to New York and back to Hollywood came out in their well-publicized legions to support Vice President Kamala Harris during her failed run for the White House. They sold every message from optimism and excitement to shame and threats for weeks, only to see Donald Trump earn his president-elect “Get Out of Jail Free” card and sign up for his second go at the Oath of Office come January.

That’s a failure of epic blockbuster proportions to use the movie business’s vernacular. With Trump winning the electoral count going away and the popular vote total as a Republican for the first time since 2004, the question faces more begging than a Los Angeles resident walking the streets of Skid Row: Why didn’t the celebrity endorsements help Harris? More alarmingly, were the plugs a factor in her loss?