Kamala Harris joins Oprah Winfrey for star-studded election event
Al Jazeera
‘Unite for America’ event features celebrities including Jennifer Lopez and Chris Rock, Julia Roberts.
United States Vice President Kamala Harris has appeared in a talk show-style event hosted by television legend Oprah Winfrey, the Democratic candidate’s latest bid to reach undecided voters in an election campaign that has shunned traditional media.
The livestreamed “Unite for America” event held in Michigan on Thursday featured a host of celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep, alongside ordinary Americans who had been personally touched by key elections issues including abortion and guns.
Harris began her discussion with Winfrey by casting her campaign as a movement for unity.
“I think in this moment where we’ve dealt with so much that I think is quite exhausting, around powerful forces that would try and divides us, and would try to have us as Americans pointing fingers at each other, that this movement that is about reminding each other that we have so much more in common than what separates,” Harris said.
Praising the Democratic candidate for “stepping into her power”, Winfrey asked Harris about the newfound confidence she appeared to gain after replacing President Joe Biden on the ticket.
