When Gracie Abrams took the stage at a Kamala Harris rally at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin on Wednesday night (October 30), the 25-year-old singer/songwriter urged young voters to support the Harris/Walz campaign. it is still a democracy left to “fix it when it's our turn”.
“I know that everyone who was on stage tonight and will be on stage tonight, wouldn't be anywhere else for anyone other than the next president of the United States: the amazing, compassionate and brilliant Kamala Harris,” Abrams said. “For many of us here on stage and in this crowd tonight, this is either the first or second time we've had the privilege of voting in a presidential election. As we know, we have inherited a world that is struggling and it is easy to feel disconnected and disillusioned. Between the advent of social media in our childhood and COVID and relentless targeted misinformation, we've been through some stuff. It's easy to get discouraged, but we know better. We know that if we don't vote and keep our democracy intact, there's nothing we can do to fix it when it's our turn.”
Abrams concluded her speech by saying of Harris, “He's the right leader at a very difficult time, and we couldn't be luckier.”
In addition to her speech, Abrams and her band — currently opening for Taylor Swift's Eras tour on its final North American leg — also performed “I Love You, I'm Sorry” (which just arrived in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 this month) and “Free Now”? both are from her most recent album, Our secretwhich debuted at No. 1 on the Top Summer Albums chart.
Mumford & Sons also performed at the rally, performing “Little Lion Man,” “Awake My Soul” and “I Will Wait” — their highest-charting hit, reaching No. 12 on the Hot 100 in 2013. In 2021 , the group's banjo guitarist Winston Marshall left the band after a controversial social media post calling right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo a “brave man” for his book. Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.
Remi Wolf also took the stage, performing “Cinderella” and saying in a speech that America should feel like “a place where we feel safe, accepted and free. That's why I'm here today to support our future president, Kamala Harris, in her efforts to rebuild that safe space for us. He understands that the right to make decisions about our bodies is fundamental. She's committed to tackling big issues like climate change and, like me, she's a Bay Area girl who likes to laugh and have fun.”
Also at the music-filled rally, Aaron Dessner and Matt Berninger of The National dedicated their song “I Need a Girl” to Harris.
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