When Gracie Abrams took the stage at a Kamala Harris rally at Alliant Vitality Heart in Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday night time (Oct. 30), the 25-year-old singer/songwriter urged younger voters to help the Harris/Walz marketing campaign so there’s nonetheless a democracy left to “repair it when it’s our flip.”
“I do know everyone who has been onstage tonight and might be onstage tonight wouldn’t be anyplace else for anybody else besides … for the following president of the US: the superb, compassionate and sensible Kamala Harris,” Abrams stated. “For many people right here onstage and on this crowd tonight, that is both the primary or second time that we’ve had the privilege of voting in a presidential election. As we all know, we’ve inherited a world that’s struggling and it’s straightforward to really feel disconnected and disillusioned. Between the arrival of social media in our childhoods and COVID and relentlessly focused disinformation, we’ve been by some issues. It’s straightforward to be discouraged, however we all know higher. We all know that except we vote and hold our democracy intact, there may be nothing we can do to repair it when it’s our flip.”
Abrams wrapped her speech by declaring of Harris: “She is the best chief at a really tough time and we couldn’t be luckier.”
Along with her speech, Abrams and her band — who’re at the moment opening up for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour on its closing North American leg — additionally carried out “I Love You, I’m Sorry” (which simply peaked within the high 20 of the Billboard Sizzling 100 this month) and “Free Now”; each are from her most up-to-date album, The Secret of Us, which debuted at No. 1 on the High Album Gross sales chart over the summer time.
Mumford & Sons additionally carried out on the rally, taking part in “Little Lion Man,” “Awake My Soul” and “I Will Wait” — their highest-charting hit, peaking at No. 12 on the Sizzling 100 in 2013. In 2021, the group’s guitarist-banjo participant Winston Marshall left the band after a controversial social media publish calling right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo a “courageous man” for his e-book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.
Remi Wolf hit the stage too, performing “Cinderella” and saying in a speech that America ought to really feel like “a spot the place we really feel secure, accepted and free. That’s the reason I’m right here at the moment to help our future president, Kamala Harris, in her efforts to create this secure house for us once more. She understands that the best to make selections about our personal our bodies is prime. She’s dedicated to tackling large points like local weather change and, like me, she’s a lady from the Bay Space who likes to snicker and have enjoyable.”
Additionally on the music-heavy rally, Aaron Dessner and Matt Berninger from The Nationwide devoted their tune “I Want a Lady” to Harris.
