Vice President Kamala Harris seemed to be feeling assured after Tuesday night time’s (Sept. 10) first, and probably solely, debate with Republican candidate Donald Trump. In video from the Democratic presidential candidate’s watch occasion, Harris was seen addressing the gang following what many pundits known as was her commanding efficiency within the typically tense 90-minute showdown with the twice-impeached former President, telling them, “Onerous work is sweet work and we’ll win, we’ll win!”
However extra pointedly, Harris then walked off the stage to a really apropos Taylor Swift tune, shortly after the pop celebrity gave her enthusiastic endorsement to the Democratic ticket of Harris and her VP decide, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Because the viewers cheered, Harris exited the occasion with Swift’s 2019 feminine empowerment anthem “The Man” blasting by means of the audio system.
In the identical means that Swift is keen on conjuring diamond-precise mic drop moments that talk for themselves, Harris’ alternative of the Lover observe mentioned all of it with out her having to say the rest. “I’d be a fearless chief/ I’d be an alpha kind/ When everybody believes ya/ What’s that like?” Swift sings on the tune about society’s chauvinistic double requirements.
“I’m so sick of working as quick as I can/ Questioning if I’d get there faster if I used to be a person/ And I’m so sick of them coming at me once more/ ‘Trigger if I used to be a person/ Then I’d be the person,” goes the refrain to the tune blasted out of the audio system on the occasion celebrating Harris, who’s vying to develop into the nation’s first feminine President.
The Swift nod got here after the singer threw her hat within the ring to endorse the Swift/Walz ticket. “I will probably be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz within the 2024 Presidential Election,” Swift wrote on Tuesday night time simply minutes after the top of the controversy that marked the first-ever assembly between convicted felon Trump and former prosecutor Harris. “I’m voting for @kamalaharris as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I imagine want a warrior to champion them. I believe she is a steady-handed, gifted chief and I imagine we will accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos.”
Swift’s endorsement additionally acquired the thumbs-up from Walz. “I’m extremely grateful to Taylor Swift and I say that as a fellow cat proprietor,” Walz instructed MSNBC host Rachel Maddow after she learn him Swift’s prolonged, heartfelt Instagram assertion that was signed “childless cat girl” within the feline-loving singer’s not-so-subtle dig at Trump VP decide JD Vance’s belittling description of what he described because the Democratic occasion’s voting base in a 2021 interview.
“That was eloquent and that was clear and that’s the kind of braveness we want in America to face up,” Walz continued. “We’ve seen it out of these Republicans who had been on the DNC. We’ve seen it out of girls who wish to have their private lives saved private however are compelled to go on the market as a result of they almost died as a result of they’ll’t get abortion companies in a being pregnant. And now you will have anyone like Taylor Swift popping out making that very clear. This is able to be the chance, Swifties: KamalaHarris.com, get on over there, get issues going.”
Shortly after the Swift endorsement, Harris’ official X account reposted the singer’s assertion, writing, “Prepared for it,” together with a coronary heart palms emoji.
