Bruce Springsteen says Donald Trump 'running to be an American tyrant' as he endorses Kamala Harris

The US prima appeared astatine Ms Harris’ rally successful Georgia connected Thursday evening, on with a big of starry names including Barack Obama, Samuel L Jackson, Spike Lee and Tyler Perry.

Meanwhile Ms Harris’ tally of celebrity-studded events was owed to proceed successful Houston, Texas, connected Friday, with a rally starring Beyonce, according to 3 radical acquainted with the matter.

The vocalist is simply a Houston native, and her 2016 opus Freedom has go Ms Harris' run anthem.

At Thursday’s rally, Springsteen performed his 1978 deed The Promised Land earlier telling the Georgia assemblage helium was backing Ms Harris due to the fact that helium wants "a president who reveres the Constitution."

"There is lone 1 campaigner successful this predetermination who holds those principles dear, Kamala Harris,” helium said.

“She's moving to beryllium the 47th president of the United States. Donald Trump is moving to beryllium an American tyrant.” He went connected to play Land of Hope and Dreams and Dancing successful the Dark.

Meanwhile Ms Harris implored Georgia voters to see the "brutally serious" consequences if Donald Trump wins a 2nd word successful the White House.

She asked voters to ideate who'll beryllium sitting successful the Oval Office conscionable 3 months from present and deliberation astir the caller president's priorities.

"It's either Donald Trump successful determination stewing implicit his enemies list, oregon maine moving for you, checking disconnected my to-do list," she said. "You person the powerfulness to marque that decision."

The beingness of Springsteen, whose vocation spans 5 decades, and erstwhile President Obama, inactive 1 of the biggest names successful Democratic politics, highlights however Harris is leaning connected immoderate of the astir noteworthy names successful the enactment to assistance her present her closing connection and lambast her opponent.

Mr Obama, who got a rousing reception from the rally assemblage astatine a packed precocious schoolhouse shot stadium extracurricular Atlanta, told his audience: "I get wherefore radical are looking to shingle things up, but what I cannot recognize is wherefore anybody would deliberation that Donald Trump would shingle things up successful ways that are bully for you."

The lengthy rally ran good down docket and seemingly took a toll connected attendees. While the immense bulk of seats remained full, hundreds of radical streamed retired of the lawsuit aboriginal arsenic Ms Harris spoke aft hours of programming.

Mr Obama argued his successor was ever "trying to merchantability you stuff," was idiosyncratic who lone cares astir "his ego, his money, his status," and regularly gives lengthy speeches that are "just connection salad."

"We bash not request 4 years of a wannabe king, a wannabe dictator," Mr Obama said earlier offering Ms Harris arsenic idiosyncratic "ready for the job."

After arguing Trump is focused lone connected himself, Mr Obama added: "If you elite Kamala Harris ... she volition beryllium focused connected you."

The Trump run called Ms Harris' usage of Mr Obama and Springsteen "a desperate, last-ditch effort to salvage her spiraling campaign."

"Relying connected celebrities is thing caller for the enactment of Hollywood elites — and arsenic voters recognize the depths of Kamala's incompetence and radicalism, she needs an added draw," the run said successful a statement.

Ms Harris' rally successful Clarkston — an eastbound Atlanta suburb — reflected the suburb's estimation arsenic the "most divers quadrate mile successful America." The assemblage has taken successful waves of immigrants and refugees, and 40 per cent of its colonisation was foreign-born successful 2020.

The DJ moving the assemblage earlier the lawsuit started called retired not lone to graduates of historically Black colleges and universities, but to West Indians. Among those successful the snaking enactment to participate were radical of Asian descent and women successful hijabs.

Thursday's lawsuit was the archetypal successful the campaign's ‘When We Vote We Win’ performance bid that aims to promote Harris supporters to ballot earlier Election Day.

Harris is not the lone subordinate of the Democratic run to thin connected prima powerfulness successful the last days. Gov. Tim Walz, her moving mate, had events successful North Carolina connected Thursday alongside singer-songwriter James Taylor.

Democrats are known for leaning connected high-profile surrogates successful the last days of statesmanlike races.

Springsteen has agelong been a protagonist of Democratic statesmanlike campaigns. The creator backed Obama successful 2008 and 2012.

He besides backed erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton successful 2016, performing astatine a Philadelphia rally connected the eve of Election Day, and endorsed Mr Biden successful 2020. The New Jersey creator threw his enactment down Harris earlier this month, calling Trump the "most unsafe campaigner for president successful my lifetime."

Beyonce, too, backed Clinton successful 2016, performing astatine an lawsuit successful Cleveland alongside hubby and rapper Jay Z conscionable days earlier Election Day that year. And Taylor has go a staple astatine Democratic events and fundraisers.