Democratic presidential candidate and incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday focused her Texas campaign primarily on abortion, despite voters’ claims that the economy is their top concern as November approaches. At the event, he defended his recent celebrity endorsements.
Singer Beyoncé publicly supported Harris at a rally where she slammed the state’s six-week abortion ban. According to On Fox News. Harris has made access to abortion a key component of her campaign, even though many of the latest polls show Americans are most concerned about rising costs.
“I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician, I’m here as a mother,” Beyoncé told a crowd of 30,000, according to the Fox broadcast. “I am a mother who cares deeply about the world that my children and all of our children live in. A world in which we have full control over our bodies.”
The economy remains the most important issue for voters this election, far ahead of abortion, immigration and the environment. According to In an October Gallup poll. Under the Biden-Harris administration, prices rose more than 20%, and inflation reached a high of 9% year-on-year in June 2022, before gradually declining.
U.S. President Joe Biden watches Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speak at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland, on August 15, 2024. (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP, Getty images)
Harris, a former Republican president, spoke at a rally that appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court who later helped defeat the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and return the power to enact abortion laws to the states. He slammed candidate Donald Trump, Fox News reported. Reported.
“Texas, what we’re experiencing here is a health care crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect of that crisis,” Harris said, according to Fox News.
Celebrity endorsements generally have little influence on Americans’ voting habits. According to According to a May poll conducted by USA TODAY and Suffolk University. (Related article: “Why are Christians voting for her?”: Pro-life groups react to Harris’ “anti-religious liberty” abortion stance)
Beyoncé joins a growing list of celebrity endorsements that Democratic candidates are receiving, including former President Barack and first lady Michelle Obama and Taylor Swift.
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