By Agency Report
Two American music stars have thrown their weight behind Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nominee for the 2024 Presidential race.
American pop star Ariana Grande and American rapper Cardi B have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidential election.
This comes after President Joe Biden stepped down as the Democratic Party’s candidate on Sunday and endorsed his vice Harris as the party’s flag bearer.
Ariande Grande has 378.6 million followers on the Instagram.
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Sharing a picture of the President and his Vice via her Instagram story, Grande called on her followers to register to vote for the Democratic Party.
“Register to vote,” she captioned the photo.
According to The Hill, Kamala Harris has secured over a quarter of the delegates needed to win the Democratic Presidential nomination so far.
Moreover, American rapper Cardi B has backed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Party’s candidate for the United States presidential election.
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Cardi B, who had earlier suggested that Harris should be the Democratic Party’s candidate after President Joe Biden’s debate with the Republican Party candidate, Donald Trump, welcomed the news of Biden stepping down and endorsing Harris with excitement.
Cardi B has 166.8 million followers on the Instagram.
Reacting via her X handle, Cardi B wrote: “Aha hahaha let’s go! I told y’all Kamala [Harris] was supposed to be the 2024 candidate… Stop f*ckin playin with me!”
Cardi B had told Rolling Stone in May that she won’t be voting in the November poll if the two major candidates remain incumbent President Joe Biden of the Democratic Party, and his predecessor, Donald Trump of the Republican Party.
She explained that she used to see Trump as “a dire threat”, but under Biden, she felt “layers and layers of disappointment” from what she sees as domestic and foreign mismanagement.
Similarly, Nigeria’s former minister of foreign affairs, Bolaji Akinyemi, has said that Kamala Harris will be a formidable opponent for Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election, emphasising that Harris is going to be a hard nut for Trump to crack.
On Harris’s candidacy, Akinyemi remarked, “President Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party is a good choice, not necessarily because of her own character but because she is the Vice President.”
He warned against underestimating Harris, saying, “I hope nobody is going to underestimate Kamala Harris. She had to take a low profile, and I said it three weeks ago that when you are the Vice President, you cannot be seen outshining the President. You do what the President tells you to do.”
He highlighted Harris’s strengths on key issues, particularly abortion rights, noting, “Harris has great issues to run with, one being the abortion case. It’s a gold case for a woman to make in a way that Biden could not. Harris would be able to gather the votes of the women who had the right to control their body.”
Reflecting on Biden’s recent appearances, Akinyemi observed, “If you watched Joe Biden after the debate, the way he was walking, the mistakes he was making even at the conference. Biden had no other choice than to do the honourable thing and withdraw from the race. He has done an honourable thing, and anytime we talk about this 10 years from now, we will still be using the word honourable.”
Akinyemi likened Biden to Lyndon B. Johnson, stating, “Joe Biden has done a lot for the United States, he reminds me of Lyndon B. Johnson who also served not only the Democratic Party but the United States for a very long time. Unfortunately, his was not age but the disaster of the Vietnam War.”
Akinyemi concluded, “If I’m to put my money on it, I will put my money on Harris to win the presidential election, despite the fact that she has been brought in as the head of the ticket on short notice. The fact that 30 million and above has poured in since the anointing of Harris shows that at least the donors are not hostile towards her. She herself has indicated that the water is warm, and anyone else who wants to jump in can do so, but she will have her head start. I don’t think there’s any governor who would want to go into that race with that kind of negativity hanging around their heads.”
Akinyemi praised Harris’s strategic approach, saying, “If you read Harris’s acceptance speech after the president made his own statement, she has been clever in what she has said, which I would expect of a clever lawyer. She said she wasn’t taking things for granted, and she will work and fight for the nomination. For me to pick a candidate to be the vice president, I don’t know who will add value to Harris’s candidacy.”
Meanwhile, former President and Republican Party candidate, Donald Trump, said Kamala Harris would be easier to defeat in the November poll than Biden.
In an interview with CNN on Sunday night, Trump welcomed Biden’s withdrawal from the Presidential race.
