Beyoncé endorses Harris for president at Houston rally

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Harris to tackle Texas' abortion prohibition successful Houston rally

Harris to tackle Texas' abortion prohibition successful Houston rally pinch Beyoncé, Willie Nelson 03:10

Speculation that Beyoncé would make an quality astatine nan Democratic National Convention two months agone ran rampant for days starring up to nan event.

The frenzy, however, didn't happen.

On Friday, successful beforehand of an energized crowd successful her hometown of Houston, Texas, nan superstar vocalist appeared connected shape to run astatine Vice President Kamala Harris' rally connected reproductive rights.

"I'm not present arsenic a celebrity, I'm not present arsenic a politician. I'm present arsenic a mother," Beyoncé said. "A mother who cares profoundly astir nan world my children and each of our children unrecorded in, a world wherever we person nan state to power our bodies, a world wherever we're not divided."

"Imagine our daughters increasing up seeing what's imaginable pinch nary ceilings, nary limitations," she continued. "We must vote, and we request you."

Beyonce endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for US president

At nan end, Beyoncé — who was joined onstage by her Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland — introduced Harris.

"It's clip for America to singing a caller song. Our voices singing a chorus of unity. They singing a opus of dignity and opportunity. Are y'all fresh to adhd your sound to nan caller American song?" she said. "Ladies and gentlemen, please springiness a big, loud, Texas invited to nan adjacent president of nan United States, Vice President Kamala Harris."

She did not execute — dissimilar successful 2016, erstwhile she performed astatine a statesmanlike run rally for Hilary Clinton successful Cleveland.

Harris' statesmanlike run has taken connected Beyonce's 2016 way "Freedom," a trim from her landmark 2016 medium "Lemonade," arsenic its anthem.

Harris first utilized nan opus successful July during her first charismatic nationalist quality arsenic a statesmanlike campaigner astatine her run office successful Delaware. That aforesaid month, Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles, publically endorsed Harris for president.

Beyoncé gave support to Harris to usage nan song, a run charismatic who was granted anonymity to talk backstage run operations confirmed to The Associated Press.

Arriving successful nan back-half of "Lemonade," "Freedom" samples 2 John and Alan Lomax section recordings, which archive Jim Crow-era people spirituals of Southern Black churches and nan activity songs of Black prisoners from 1959 and 1948, respectively. It besides features Pulitzer Prize victor Kendrick Lamar.

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The Harris rally successful Houston highlighted nan perilous aesculapian fallout from nan state's strict abortion prohibition and put nan blasted squarely connected erstwhile President Donald Trump.

"We cognize state is not to beryllium given. It is not to beryllium bestowed. It is ours by right, and we are prepared to conflict for it," Harris said. "We must beryllium loud. We must organize. We must mobilize. We must energize."

Since abortion was restricted successful Texas, nan state's babe decease complaint has increased, much babies person died of commencement defects and maternal mortality has risen.

Beyoncé was not nan only big-name personage astatine Friday's rally. Texas autochthonal and legendary singer-songwriter Willie Nelson performed and character and entrepreneur Jessica Alba said earlier during nan rally.