Speaking 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 “believe women 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 changed my mind completely,” Cardi B mentioned. “I did not have faith in any candidate until she joined the race and said the things that I wanted to hear, that I wanted to see next in this country.”
She additionally associated her personal story to that of Harris. “Just like Kamala Harris, I too have been the underdog. I’ve been underestimated, my success belittled and discredited. Let me tell you something. Women have to work 10 times harder, perform 10 times better, and still, people question us, how we got to the top.”
She added, “I can’t stand a bully, but just like Kamala, I always stand up to one.”
She ran by means of a few of Harris’ coverage proposals, like her plans to crack down on grocery worth 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 certainly one of Trump’s feedback from this week, that he can be a protector of ladies “whether they like it or not.”
“People like Donald Trump don’t believe women deserve rights, and when those rights are taken away, they are nowhere to be found,” she mentioned, noting that after the repeal of Roe vs. Wade, no plan was put in place to help ladies with unplanned pregnancies struggling to make ends meet.
“If [Trump’s] definition of protection is not the freedom of choice, if his definition of protection is making sure our daughters have fewer rights than our mothers, then I don’t want it,” she mentioned.
She then known as Trump a “hustler,” however “hustling women out of their rights to their body is nasty work. Hustling Americans out of their hard earned money by selling Trump watches, Trump sneakers and Trump Bible — by the way, the watches is $100,000, made in China, another country he discredited — is nasty too.”
Cardi B is the newest celeb to look with Harris on the marketing campaign path within the closing 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 War And Treaty.