LOS ANGELES (TND) — Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish advised her followers to “vote like your life is dependent upon it” this November.
In a social media publish, she and her brother,Finneas O’Connell,urged their followers to help Kamala Harris and Tim Walz within the 2024 presidential election.
“We’re voting for Harris-Walz. The selection is obvious,” Eilish wrote within the publish, which the star shared Tuesday in spirit of Nationwide Voter Registration Day.
Eilish, 22, included a video within the publish, with Eilish and Finneas encouraging their followers to test their voting standing and vote early. Additionally they disclosed the candidates they’re casting their votes for on Nov. 5.
“We’re voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as a result of they’re preventing to guard our reproductive freedom, our planet, and our democracy,” Eilish stated within the footage.
Finneas, 27, who writes and produces music for a number of artists, together with his sister, agreed.
“We are able to’t let extremists management our lives, our freedoms, and our future,” Finneas stated. “The one strategy to cease them and the damaging Undertaking 2025 agenda is to vote and elect Kamala Harris.
“Vote like your life is dependent upon it, as a result of it does,” Eilish added.
The 2 are the most recent celebrities to endorse Harris and Walz, with Taylor Swift amongst one of many first to indicate help for the Democratic working mates.
Shortly after Harris and former President Donald Trump wrapped up a televised debate Sept. 10, Swift took to Instagram to share her emotions about who she plans to vote for.
“I might be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz within the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I imagine want a warrior to champion them. I believe she is a steady-handed, gifted chief and I imagine we are able to accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos. I used to be so heartened and impressed by her choice of working mate @timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a girl’s proper to her personal physique for many years,” Swift wrote.
“I’ve accomplished my analysis, and I’ve made my selection. Your analysis is all yours to do, and the selection is yours to make. I additionally wish to say, particularly to first time voters: Do not forget that with the intention to vote, it’s a must to be registered! I additionally discover it’s a lot simpler to vote early. I’ll hyperlink the place to register and discover early voting dates and information in my story,” she added.
She additionally stated she determined to “be very clear about my precise plans for this election as a voter” after faux AI-generated photographs surfaced that falsely confirmed her endorsing Trump. The previous president shared the pictures on Fact Social, his social media platform.
“It actually conjured up my fears round AI, and the risks of spreading misinformation,” Swift wrote in her endorsement.
The 34-year-old pop star ended the publish, which featured a photograph of her holding her cat, by writing:
With love and hope,
Taylor Swift
Childless Cat Girl
Her phrases have been a reference to Trump’s working mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who in 2021 described sure Democrats and their supporters as “childless cat girls.”
Vance just lately appeared on The Megyn Kelly Present, which airs on SiriusXM, and defended the remark. He additionally urged the general public to look a bit of deeper at his phrases.
“This isn’t about criticizing folks, who for numerous causes, did not have children,”Vance advised Kelly. “That is about criticizing the Democratic get together for changing into anti-family and anti-child. We now have to ask ourselves, Megyn, why do now we have masking of toddlers years after the pandemic ended? Why do now we have the Harris marketing campaign popping out this very morning, Megyn, and saying that we must always not have the kid tax credit score, which lowers tax charges for folks of younger kids? It is as a result of they’ve grow to be anti-family and anti-kid and I am proud to face up for folks and I hope that oldsters on the market acknowledge that I am a man that desires to struggle for you.”
Harris’ marketing campaign seems to be profiting from Swift’s endorsement, because the Democratic Nationwide Committee final week unveiled new Swift-inspired billboards in two U.S. states, together with New York and Nevada.
The digital billboards popped up Friday in Occasions Sq. in NYC, in addition to alongside the Las Vegas Strip.
One commercial features a picture of Harris and the phrases, “We’re in our Kamala period,” a reference to Swift’s Eras Tour.
One other advert reveals a unique picture of Harris, together with the phrases, “A brand new method ahead… Prepared for It?” This one is a nod to her hit tune, “Prepared for It,” which was on Swift’s Popularity album from 2017.
Based on Folks, the New York Metropolis adverts have been erected 22 tales above the purple steps in Occasions Sq., with obvious references to 2 of Swift’s hit songs “22” and “Crimson” from her 2012 album, Crimson.