2024: Queen B chooses her favorite Harris
your title Freedom It already served as the official anthem of the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign. On Friday, October 25, during a rally in Houston, Texas, pop star Beyoncé Knowles came in person to stand alongside Kamala Harris in the run-up to the November 5 vote. “I’m not here as a celebrity. I am not here as a politician. “I’m here as a mother,” she said during a brief speech focused primarily on defending women’s rights. Kamala Harris’ campaign already had the official support of many stars, such as the singer Taylor Swift, who explained on September 11 to her 284 million subscribers on Instagram the reasons for her vote in favor. “ talented and strong leader”.
2012: Clint Eastwood chooses Romney
He never hid his Republican sympathies. After supporting John McCain in 2008, the American director and actor Clint Eastwood especially wet his shirt to try to make Mitt Romney triumph over Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential elections. “The country needs a boost” He had justified “Inspector Harry” in August 2012, during a fundraiser for the Republican candidate. A few days later, at the Republican Party convention in Tampa, Florida, he gave a speech in the form of an imaginary dialogue with Barack Obama’s empty chair. The performance, considered strange by observers, did not bring luck to the Mormon Mitt Romney, widely defeated by the outgoing president.
2008: Oprah Winfrey boosts Obama
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Oprah Winfrey worked hard to elect the first black president in American history. Support that began during the close duel of the Democratic primaries, which pitted Barack Obama, then a young senator from Illinois, against former first lady Hillary Clinton. After raising $3 million in one night at her California estate, the talk show queen, described at the time by CNN as “the most powerful woman in the world”, accompanied Obama on a traveling show in three key primary states: New Hampshire, South Carolina and Iowa. According to two economists at the University of Maryland, his support would have contributed almost a million votes to Obama in his race for the nomination.
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