Martha Stewart just quietly endorsed Kamala Harris for president

Martha Stewart has finally spoken out about the 2024 election and endorsed a candidate.

During the 2024 Retail Influencer CEO Forum on Tuesday, Stewart shared that she definitely I will be watching the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tonight: “Oh, you bet on it.” But for the first time in this round, she also said who she will vote for: “Kamala,” she said, making sure to pronounce it correctly.

Stewart is supporting Harris because she wants a president “who doesn't hate New York” and “who doesn't hate democracy,” she said during an onstage conversation with Joanna Coles, chief creative and content officer at the Daily Beast.

The 83-year-old lifestyle expert has been criticizing Trump since 2006, when both versions of The Apprentice aired at the same time. After Stewart's version of the show had low ratings, she blamed Trump for not keeping a deal she allegedly made to “fire” him so her show could be the only one: “Two Trainees was as unfair to him as it was to me,” she said at the time.

Trump, in turn, responded by rebuking her in a public letter, accusing her of lying about an agreement. Later, as the two argued, he told the press, “I wish she was able to take responsibility for her failure.”

In 2016, she publicly supported Hillary Clinton over Trump, telling CNN, “We simply cannot allow a country to be run by someone who is totally unprepared for what is coming.”

Stewart is a convicted felon, but her right to vote was denied only during her five-month prison sentence beginning in October 2004 under the laws of the state of Connecticut, where she then lived. She was released in 2005 and later lived in New York, where she is also free to vote.

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After Trump's victory in 2016, Stewart walked back her earlier comments, congratulating him and expressing her joy at having a “true entrepreneur in the White House.” When Trump ran against Joe Biden in 2020, she remained conspicuously silent on the issue.

In an interview with The New York Times In 2020, Stewart was asked if she planned to support Biden or Trump as presidential candidates – a question she dodged. “My personal dilemma is that my friends know who I am and what I stand for,” she told the Just“But how can you, as the owner of a magazine, take sides when 50 percent of the readers are on one side and 50 percent on the other? That's difficult. That's my answer to that.”

Four years later, Stewart still admits that she could “lose 50 percent of her viewers and fans” by discussing politics. However, when asked which side of the political divide she was on, she couldn't help but say which side of the political divide she was on.

But don't expect to hear more from her on this topic any time soon. “I'm not allowed to talk [about politics]. I cannot post anything about politics, because first of all the eyes of a parent company and [I’ll] get a call right away – that’s not possible,” said Stewart. “You can’t talk [about that]so – be quiet.”