Cher has endorsed Kamala Harris. (Getty)
Pop legend Cher has endorsed Kamala Harris for president whereas urging US voters to go to the polls.
The “Simply Like Jessie James” singer declared her assist for the Democratic candidate in a clip posted on her social media on Friday (18 October).
“I’ve adopted Kamala Harris since she was my US senator,” Cher stated within the clip. “She fought for me then and he or she is preventing for all of us now. That’s why I’m proudly voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I do know they’ll battle to guard our rights and I’m grateful to have the ability to make my voice rely this 12 months.”
The Mama Mia star hoped voters throughout the US may also make their voices heard to by going to the polls in two weeks’ time.
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Earlier this 12 months, she admitted being not sure whether or not the Democrats might maintain on to the White Home beneath the management of Joe Biden.
“In my coronary heart I’m tortured as a result of I don’t consider the Democrats can win the presidency with Joe, whom I’ve cherished since we met in 2008,” she wrote. “I campaigned for him [but] consider it’s time to cross the baton.”
Her newest publish seems to be a affirmation that she believes vice-president Harris is the proper particular person to select up that baton and run with it.
Different celebrities, together with Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X and Cardi B, have pledging their assist for the Democratic candidate. As has rival Donald Trump’s nephew, Fred Trump III.
Charli XCX endorsed Harris in July, inspiring the candidates’ official marketing campaign account on X/Twitter to be given a Brat summer time makeover.
In response to the newest polls, Harris has inched forward in one of many tightest races in political historical past, FiveThirtyEight reported.
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