CLARKSTON, Ga. (AP) — Kamala Harris is enlisting some of her most high-profile surrogates in the closing days of the campaign, with Bruce Springsteen lending his star power to deliver a musical warmup for the vice president's speech Thursday night in Georgia. Alongside Springsteen, an iconic performer whose career spans five decades, Harris was headlining the event outside Atlanta with former President Barack Obama, still one of the biggest names in Democratic politics.
After a performance of “The Promised Land," a ballad off his 1978 album “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” Springsteen told the Georgia audience he was backing Harris because he wants “a president who reveres the constitution.” “There is only one candidate in this election who holds those principles dear, Kamala Harris. She’s running to be the 47th president of the United States.
Donald Trump is running to be an American tyrant," Springsteen added before playing "Land of Hope and Dreams” and “Dancing in the Dark.” Harris' rally in Clarkston — an eastern Atlanta suburb — is at a high school football stadium where the audience reflected the suburb’s reputation as the “most diverse square mile in America.” The community has taken in waves of immigrants and refugees, and 40% of its population was foreign-born in 2020.
The DJ working the crowd before the event started called out not only to graduates of historically Black colleges and universities, but to West Indians. Among those in th.
