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States — Bruce Springsteen took the stage Thursday at Kamala Harris’s star-studded campaign rally in swing state Georgia, with the rock legend warning that White House hopeful Donald Trump aims to be an “American tyrant.”
Harris is cranking up the celebrity wattage – including with Beyonce in Texas on Friday, according to reports – at a series of concerts in battleground states to boost support in the final days of a nail-biting election.
Thursday’s rally in Atlanta is also Harris’s first campaign stop with Barack Obama, the only Black president in American history and who remains widely popular with Democratic voters.
But it was Springsteen’s gritty commentary at the start that echoed through the packed rally, where the iconic singer said he would “oppose” the Republican former president because “Donald Trump is running to be an American tyrant.”
Large numbers of Americans, including about 2.2 million in Georgia, have already cast ballots in early voting, reflecting intense engagement ahead of Election Day on November 5.
Springsteen brought his brand of socially conscious, working-class anthems including “The Promised Land” to get out the vote and bolster Harris’s blue-collar credentials.
The vice president herself had raised the stakes further in a CNN appearance late Wednesday when she said she considers 78-year-old Trump to be a “fascist” – as charged in a bombshell interview by the Republican’s former chief of staff John Kelly.
