The list of celebrities who have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in her 2024 presidential bid just keeps on growing, with Barack and Michelle Obama, Sarah Jessica Parker, Taylor Swift, Kerry Washington, Bruce Springsteen, and Leonardo DiCaprio all throwing their support behind the Harris/Walz ticket in recent months. But the Harris campaign received perhaps its biggest celebrity boost to date on Friday night, when Beyoncé appeared, with Kelly Rowland, at a major campaign rally in her hometown of Houston, Texas—following an introduction from her mother, Ms. Tina.
After a short set by Willie Nelson earlier in the evening—during which the 91-year-old country icon (and fellow Texas native) performed “On the Road Again” and “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”—Beyoncé took the stage in a Rosie Huntington-Whiteley X Wardrobe.NYC blazer dress and miniskirt to deliver remarks about the stakes of the 2024 election. “We are at the precipice of an incredible shift—the brink of history,” she said. “I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother—a mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in. A world where we have the power to control our bodies. A world where we’re not divided…It’s time for America to sing a new song.”
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Of course, the pop-cultural link between Beyoncé and Harris is, by now, well-established; the internationally bestselling artist authorized the Harris/Walz campaign to use her song “Freedom” on the trail in July; and in August, it was widely rumored that Beyoncé would perform on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Harris wasn’t the only 2024 presidential candidate to visit Texas on Friday—Donald Trump was also in the state, giving a typically bigoted speech about immigration at a campaign rally in Austin before sitting down for Joe Rogan’s podcast—but she is most definitely the only one who nabbed Queen Bey.
