Kamala Harris walked out to Beyoncé’s Lemonade observe throughout a marketing campaign go to. (Getty)
Kamala Harris walked out to Beyoncé’s tune “Freedom” throughout a presidential marketing campaign go to, simply hours after allegedly being granted permission to make use of the singer’s observe.
The Vice President made her first official go to to her marketing campaign headquarters on Monday (22 July), marking a poignant entrance with the 2016 hit from the Cowboy Carter album creator’s Lemonade days.
The tune options the lyrics in its refrain: “Freedom/ The place are you?/ ’Trigger I want freedom, too/ I break chains all on my own/ Gained’t let my freedom rot in hell/ Hey! I’ma preserve working/ ‘Trigger a winner don’t stop on themselves.”
CNN reported {that a} supply near Harris — who’s at the moment campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination after Biden stepped down — obtained approval from Beyoncé’s representatives to make use of the observe all through her marketing campaign.
The outlet added that the singer gave Harris’ marketing campaign approval when requesting permission to make use of the tune simply hours earlier than she walked out for the occasion. Nevertheless, Beyoncé has but to publicly endorse Harris on her marketing campaign after she secured the help of a majority of Democratic delegates to develop into the get together’s nominee for president.
PinkNews has contacted a consultant of Beyoncé for a touch upon the matter.
Quite a few high-profile celebrities and politicians have already shared their public help for Harris, together with President Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Invoice and Hilary Clinton, and even Charli XCX.
In a letter on social media, Biden provided his “full help and endorsement” for Harris to be the Democrats’ nominee to face former president Donald Trump in November.
“It’s time to return collectively and beat Trump,” he wrote. “Let’s do that.”
In response, Harris mentioned she was “honoured” to have the president’s backing, and meant to “earn and win this nomination”, including: “I’ll do every part in my energy to unite the Democratic get together — and our nation — to defeat Donald Trump and his excessive Undertaking 2025 agenda.”
Harris is about to handle voters for the primary time at a marketing campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday (23 July) after touchdown the help to be nominated.