Democrat’s polling strength has also been underpinned by jump in support among the young and voters of colour
As Megan Thee Stallion ended her set at a campaign rally for Kamala Harris in Atlanta this week, the 29-year-old rapper called out to the packed arena: “We about to make history with the first female president! The first Black female president!” The event was Harris’s largest rally to date and the mostly female crowd of more than 10,000 roared as it shared the rapper’s excitement at the possibility of electing a woman to the White House.
The vice-president’s late mother was Indian-American, and her Black father was born in Jamaica. Vance, meanwhile, has been haunted by a video that resurfaced of a 2021 interview where he called Harris and other childless Democrats “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives”. Harris has two stepchildren with her husband, Douglas Emhoff. “The way that they talk about women, it is just off-putting . . . it’s creepy.
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