The roster of stars supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in her 2024 campaign for the presidency continues to expand, with Barack and Michelle Obama, Sarah Jessica Parker, Taylor Swift, Kerry Washington, Bruce Springsteen, and Leonardo DiCaprio all expressing their backing for the Harris/Walz ticket in the past few months. However, the Harris campaign perhaps received its most significant celebrity endorsement thus far on Friday evening when Beyoncé, accompanied by Kelly Rowland, emerged at a prominent campaign event in her birthplace of Houston, Texas—after an introduction by her mother, Ms. Tina.
Following a brief performance by Willie Nelson earlier that night—during which the 91-year-old country legend (another native of Texas) sang “On the Road Again” and “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”—Beyoncé ascended the stage in a Rosie Huntington-Whiteley X Wardrobe.NYC blazer dress and mini skirt to speak about the importance of the 2024 election. “We are teetering on the edge of an extraordinary transformation—the cusp of history,” she declared. “I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m present as a mother—a mother who is profoundly concerned about the world my children and all of our children inhabit. A world where we have the autonomy to govern our bodies. A world where unity prevails…It’s time for America to embrace a new anthem.”