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 girls 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 yr till the vp entered the race.
“She modified my thoughts utterly,” Cardi B mentioned. “I didn’t think about any candidate till she joined the race and mentioned the issues that I needed to listen to, that I needed 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. Ladies should work 10 instances more durable, carry out 10 instances higher, and nonetheless, individuals query us, how we received to the highest.”
She added, “I can’t stand a bully, however similar to Kamala, I at all times stand as much as one.”
She ran by 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 can be a protector of ladies “whether or not they prefer it or not.”
“Folks like Donald Trump don’t consider girls deserve rights, and when these rights are taken away, they’re nowhere to be discovered,” she mentioned, noting that after the repeal of Roe vs. Wade, no plan was put in place to help girls with unplanned pregnancies struggling to make ends meet.
“If [Trump’s] definition of safety just isn’t 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 mentioned.
She then referred to as Trump a “hustler,” however “hustling girls 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 best way, the watches is $100,000, made in China, one other nation he discredited — is nasty too.”
Cardi B is the newest movie star to seem with Harris on the marketing campaign path within the remaining 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.
