Alicia Keys, campaigning for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania right this moment, refused to say Donald Trump by title whereas warning that his platform would “flip again the clock” on girls’s rights.
“If you happen to don’t vote for her, otherwise you don’t vote in any respect, you’re voting for the chaos and the hate,” she informed a rally in Montgomery County, PA, the place she was showing with former First Girl Michelle Obama.
“You’re voting for a merciless tomorrow for immigrants, folks of coloration, girls, women, our youngsters and our planet,” she mentioned.
Keys mentioned that she needs to see her youngsters “develop up in a world the place they will see that management has many faces, and that one among them appears like Kamala Harris.”
She added, “It’s loopy as a result of too many individuals suppose girls can’t lead simply because they haven’t seen sufficient of it. When our children go searching their lecture rooms on the footage of presidents on the wall, each single one is a person, one Black man. No marvel it’s arduous for a lot of to think about a feminine president. They’ve by no means seen one, and if they will’t see it, how can they consider it?”
Keys famous that girls “had reproductive freedom, however not a lot now, and that’s why we’re nonetheless preventing right this moment. That’s why we are able to’t get snug, as a result of they’re already beginning to take these rights away. If it’s been achieved already with Roe. vs. Wade, what makes us suppose that there couldn’t be a frontrunner in place for the opposite facet that will say, ‘Overlook equal pay. Ladies don’t want it. Or, ‘We don’t want to teach girls anymore. They’ll simply keep at dwelling. They don’t work anyway.’”
She added, “This isn’t some dystopian Netflix present that I’m speaking about. That is just like the platform the opposite facet is operating on. They need to flip again the clock.”
