Democratic presidential nominee and sitting Vice President Kamala Harris championed her latest celebrity endorsement Friday at a Texas campaign event centered mainly around abortion, despite voters’ insistence that the economy is their greatest concern as November approaches.
Singer Beyonce formally endorsed Harris at the rally where the two slammed the state’s 6-week abortion ban, according to Fox News. Harris has made abortion access a major component of her campaign, even though many of the latest polls show Americans care most about rising costs.
_“I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician, I’m here as a mother,” Beyonce told the crowd of 30,000, according to Fox. “A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in. A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies.”
The economy remains the single most important issue for voters this election, far outweighing abortion, immigration and the environment, according to an October Gallup poll. Prices have risen more than 20% under the Biden-Harris administration, with inflation reaching a high of 9% year-over-year in June 2022 before slowly ticking back down.
Harris bashed former president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the rally for appointing three conservative justices to the Supreme Court who later helped to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade court case, returning the authority to create abortion laws to the states, Fox News reported.
“Texas, what we’re experiencing here is a health care crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect of it,” Harris said, according to Fox News.
Celebrity endorsements generally do little to affect Americans’ voting habits, according to a poll conducted in May by USA TODAY and Suffolk University.
Beyonce joins a growing list of celebrity endorsements the Democratic candidate has received, including from former president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama and Taylor Swift.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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