The night before Election Day, at campaign events across the country, celebrities turned out in force to support Kamala Harris’s presidential bid.
The battleground state of Pennsylvania was especially busy: In Pittsburgh, the vice president’s rally included Cedric the Entertainer, Katy Perry and Andra Day. Concluding Harris’ day-long performance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, performers and presenters included DJ Cassidy, Fat Joe and Ricky Martin.
Republican Donald Trump was certainly unhappy with Harris’ celebrity lineup.
At his rally in Pittsburgh, which overlapped with Harris’ event in the city, the former president criticized Harris for one celebrity endorsement in particular: Beyoncé. He spoke dismissively about Beyoncé’s appearance at a rally with Harris in Houston last month, prompting her supporters to applaud the megastar.
Trump said, “Beyoncé will come. Everybody’s expecting a few songs. There were no songs. There was no cheering.”
Beyoncé did not perform at the event, but was joined on stage by her Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland and gave a rousing speech.
Previously, Beyoncé had given the Harris campaign permission to use her 2016 track “Freedom”, a cut from her landmark 2016 album “Lemonade”, as its anthem.
Trump said Harris should have learned a lesson from Hillary Clinton and that Beyoncé should have spoken after her, saying, “This is how people live.”
In 2016, Beyoncé performed at a campaign event for Democratic nominee Clinton in Cleveland in the days before the election.
“She caused a huge uproar, but the press didn’t show it,” Trump said in his description of Beyoncé’s appearance at the Harris event.
He insisted that his campaign did not need a crowd of celebrities, saying: “We don’t need any stars because we have the policy. We have a very good policy.”
However, at another point at the same rally, he enthused: “So many celebrities are here, it’s unbelievable: Mike Pompeo, please stand up,” introducing his former secretary of state.
Trump was also joined by Megyn Kelly and the son of baseball star Roberto Clemente.
Harris lined up artists to speak and play at campaign rallies in all seven battleground states on Monday, and combined them all into a Democratic get-out-the-vote livestream.
In Las Vegas, performers included Christina Aguilera and electro-dance duo Sophie Tucker. In Raleigh, North Carolina, Sugarland, the country music duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, took the stage.
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