75-year-old rocker Bruce Springsteen endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in a virtually three minute lengthy video posted to social media Thursday night. The endorsement, which comes as no shock as “the Boss” has endorsed each Democrat presidential nominee for many years, follows pop star Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris final month. Springsteen referred to as Trump “essentially the most harmful candidate for president in my lifetime.”
Swift’s endorsement had little optimistic to a small internet adverse affect on the race according to polls. Springsteen’s longtime affiliation with the Democrats, together with his friendship with Barack Obama, will doubtless imply his endorsement can have little affect on the race besides to remind conservatives who had been as soon as followers of Springsteen why they not go to his reveals or purchase his music, even when they don’t flip the dial when Dancing within the Darkish or Born to Run comes on the radio.
Springsteen set his announcement within the stark setting of an empty diner with a tiny, partially hidden American flag–an apt metaphor for the Biden-Harris years that makes one marvel why anybody would need 4 extra years of that. Positively not Reagan’s ‘Morning in America’ that Springsteen railed towards when he was a Nineteen Eighties famous person.
Springsteen stated the present scenario was like when the Civil Struggle came about, “Maybe not because the Civil Struggle has this nice nation felt as politically, spiritually and emotionally divided because it does at this second. It doesn’t need to be this fashion.”
Springsteen helped lead that division. Whereas om tour in Australia in January 2017 after Trump was inaugurated, he stated he and the E Road Band had been a part of “the brand new resistance”:
Bruce @springsteen says he and the E Road Band stand with Ladies’s March contributors: “We’re a part of the brand new resistance.” pic.twitter.com/veUdOJKdsh
— ABC Information Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 23, 2017
Springsteen carried out in occupied Washington, D.C. in January 2021 to have fun the triumph of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ on the Biden-Harris inaugural:
In case you missed it, Bruce opened the #CelebratingAmerica live performance particular with a stirring efficiency of “Land Of Hope And Goals” to mark the inauguration of @POTUS Joe Biden and @VP Kamala Harris. pic.twitter.com/DKbx6ZxKnb
— Bruce Springsteen (@springsteen) January 23, 2021
Springsteen’s video endorsing Harris:
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Bruce Springsteen formally endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in a brand new video the place he calls Donald Trump “essentially the most harmful candidate for president in my lifetime.”
“Hello, I’m Bruce Springsteen. Associates, followers, and the press have requested me who I’m supporting on this most… pic.twitter.com/JiZ9d9ejkf
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) October 3, 2024
Transcript through Yashar Ali/X:
Hello, I’m Bruce Springsteen. Associates, followers, and the press have requested me who I’m supporting on this most necessary of elections.
And with full information that my opinions aren’t any kind of necessary than these of any of my fellow residents, right here’s my reply: I’m supporting Kamala Harris for President and Tim Waltz for Vice President and opposing Donald Trump and JD Vance.
Right here’s why.
We’re shortly coming upon probably the most consequential elections in our nation’s historical past. Maybe not because the Civil Struggle has this nice nation felt as politically, spiritually, and emotionally divided because it does then at this second.
It doesn’t need to be this fashion.
The frequent values, the shared tales that make us a fantastic and united nation are ready to be rediscovered and retold as soon as once more.
Now that may take time, arduous work, intelligence, religion and ladies and men with the nationwide good, guiding their hearts.
America’s essentially the most highly effective nation on earth. Not simply due to her overwhelming army power or financial energy, however due to what she stands for, what she means, what she believes in: freedom, social justice, equal alternative, the suitable to be and love who you need.
These are the issues that make America nice.
Donald Trump is essentially the most harmful candidate for President in my lifetime. His disdain for the sanctity of our structure, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of legislation, and the sanctity of the peaceable switch of energy ought to disqualify him from the workplace of President ever once more.
He doesn’t perceive the that means of this nation, its historical past or what it means to be deeply American.
However, Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz are dedicated to a imaginative and prescient of this nation that respects and contains everybody no matter class, faith, race, your political viewpoint or sexual id, they usually need to develop our financial system in a means that advantages all, not simply the few like me on prime. That’s the imaginative and prescient of America I’ve been persistently writing about for 55 years now.
Everyone sees issues completely different, and I respect your selection as a fellow citizen, however such as you, I’ve solely obtained one vote, and it’s probably the most treasured possessions that I’ve.
That’s why come November fifth, I’ll be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”
Springsteen, who has largely held on to his liberal fan base, is on a month-long break in his present world tour with reveals set for Canada in late October and November, leaving him obtainable to play Kamala Harris rallies the subsequent few weeks to assist her draw crowds like he did for Barack Obama.
