Alicia Keys, campaigning for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania at present, 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 instructed a rally in Montgomery County, PA, the place she was showing with former First Woman Michelle Obama.
“You’re voting for a merciless tomorrow for immigrants, individuals of shade, girls, women, our youngsters and our planet,” she stated.
Keys stated 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 to be like 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 imagine it?”
Keys famous that ladies “had reproductive freedom, however not a lot now, and that’s why we’re nonetheless combating at present. That’s why we are able to’t get comfy, as a result of they’re already beginning to take these rights away. If it’s been accomplished already with Roe. vs. Wade, what makes us suppose that there couldn’t be a frontrunner in place for the opposite aspect that will say, ‘Overlook equal pay. Girls don’t want it. Or, ‘We don’t want to teach girls anymore. They will simply keep at residence. 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 aspect is operating on. They wish to flip again the clock.”
