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With simply 11 days to go till the hotly contested U.S. presidential election, Beyoncé made a robust look on the largest Harris-Walz rally but — in her hometown of Houston.
After music legend Willie Nelson, 91, warmed up the group of roughly 30,000, Queen Bey’s good friend and Future’s Little one bandmate Kelly Rowland, sporting a boxy, outsized, males’s-style swimsuit, launched her.
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The 43-year-old strolled onto the stage in a tailor-made black jacket with broad shoulders and a brief skirt, talking for greater than 4 minutes.
“H-City!” she stated as she started her remarks. “We’re so pleased to be standing right here on this stage as proud, nation, Texas ladies, supporting and celebrating the one and solely Vice President Kamala Harris, a lady who’s been pushing for what this nation actually wants proper now — unity.”
Commenting on the “positivity, neighborhood, humanity” within the house, the icon — who didn’t sing — famous, “I am not right here as a star. I am not right here as a politician. I am right here as a mom. A mom who cares deeply in regards to the world my kids and all of our kids dwell in.”
Referencing reproductive freedom and human rights, she additionally talked about what older ladies should be feeling because the U.S. might be about to elect a lady to the presidency for the primary time.
The singer went on to implore the group to pitch in and vote. “We want you,” she said. “Your freedom is your God-given proper. Your human proper!”
{That a} Democratic candidate would spent a part of one of many ultimate days earlier than the November 5 vote in pink Texas has had political observers speculating whether or not the state is perhaps in play. Regardless, the state has a neck-and-neck Senate race between Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican, and Colin Allred, his Democratic rival, and is certainly one of many states with abortion-rights points within the combine.
In conclusion, Beyoncé stated, “We should vote… It is time to sing a brand new music. A music that started 248 years in the past. The previous notes of downfall, discord, despair not resonate. Our generations of family members earlier than us are whispering a prophecy, a quest, a calling, an anthem… It is time for America to sing a brand new music… Are y’all prepared so as to add your voice to the brand new American music? As a result of I’m!”
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She launched VP Harris as the following president of america, and Harris appeared, waving to the group and warmly embracing Rowland after which Beyoncé.
Her speech was targeted on reproductive freedom.
On the identical time, former President Donald Trump was additionally in Texas, the place he wrapped a three-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan earlier than flying to Michigan for a late-night rally within the often blue state that he received in 2016.