Talking at a rally for Kamala Harris tonight, Cardi B blasted Donald Trump as a “hustler” with a “plan to hustle you,” warning that he doesn’t “consider ladies deserve rights.”
The rapper and songwriter additionally defined why she endorsed Harris, telling the Milwaukee crowd that she had not deliberate to even vote this 12 months till the vice chairman entered the race.
“She modified my thoughts fully,” Cardi B stated. “I didn’t place confidence in any candidate till she joined the race and stated the issues that I wished to listen to, that I wished to see subsequent on this nation.”
She additionally associated her personal story to that of Harris. “Similar to Kamala Harris, I too have been the underdog. I’ve been underestimated, my success belittled and discredited. Let me inform you one thing. Girls should work 10 occasions tougher, carry out 10 occasions higher, and nonetheless, folks query us, how we received to the highest.”
She added, “I can’t stand a bully, however identical to Kamala, I all the time stand as much as one.”
She ran by way of a few of Harris’ coverage proposals, like her plans to crack down on grocery value gouging, to supply $25,000 in down cost help and to develop the kid tax credit score.
Cardi B spent a portion of her 10-minute speech on considered one of Trump’s feedback from this week, that he could be a protector of girls “whether or not they prefer it or not.”
“Individuals like Donald Trump don’t consider ladies deserve rights, and when these rights are taken away, they’re nowhere to be discovered,” she stated, noting that after the repeal of Roe vs. Wade, no plan was put in place to help ladies with unplanned pregnancies struggling to make ends meet.
“If [Trump’s] definition of safety shouldn’t be the liberty of selection, if his definition of safety is ensuring our daughters have fewer rights than our moms, then I don’t need it,” she stated.
She then referred to as Trump a “hustler,” however “hustling ladies out of their rights to their physique is nasty work. Hustling Individuals out of their hard-earned cash by promoting Trump watches, Trump sneakers and Trump Bible — by the way in which, the watches is $100,000, made in China, one other nation he discredited — is nasty too.”
Cardi B is the most recent superstar to look with Harris on the marketing campaign path within the last days earlier than the election. Jennifer Lopez spoke at a rally for Harris Thursday evening. On Saturday, Harris will maintain a rally in Atlanta with remarks by Spike Lee and Victoria Monét, and performances by 2 Chains, Monica and Pastor Troy. She then will seem in Charlotte with remarks by Kerry Washington and performances by Brittney Spencer, Jon Bon Jovi, Khalid and The Battle And Treaty.
