Megan Thee Stallion to perform at Kamala Harris' Atlanta rally
ATLANTA - Megan Thee Stallion and the Atlanta Hotties are getting political. The Houston rapper will be performing at 2024 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris' rally in Atlanta on Tuesday.
This will be Harris' first appearance in Georgia since President Joe Biden bowed out of the race and endorsed Harris as his replacement. It will be Megan's first time back after making up for a series of "Hot Girl Summer Tour" performances that were postponed by the Midtown and downtown Atlanta water main breaks.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 08: Megan Thee Stallion attends the "Mean Girls" premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on January 08, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
Harris' campaign has been making a big effort to reach younger voters, confusing older crowds when she tipped her hat to British pop star Charlie XCX' new "brat" album, uploading a bright green X banner that read "kamala hq."
"Kamala IS brat," Charlie XCX responded.
Over the weekend, she also posted a special TikTok collaboration with *NSYNC's Lance Bass in which he asked her "Hey Kamala, what are we gonna say to Donald Trump in November?" She responded: "Bye, bye, bye."
Now, super-fans are wondering whether Megan just insinuated she would be making her way back to the Peach State to endorse Harris, and maybe even perform for her.
"ATL HOTTIES SEE YOU TOMORROW," the rapper captioned a newly posted Instagram picture of herself with the words ‘ATL / KAMALA / MEGAN THEE STALLION / 7:30 PM ET’ printed on it.
FOX 5 Atlanta received word that Harris' rally would begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Is it possible that Thee Hot Girl Coach, herself, will be in attendance? Only time will tell.
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FOX 5 Atlanta plans to stream Harris' speech on Facebook, YouTube and the FOX Local App.
The Democratic Party could officially nominate the vice president as their candidate as early as August 1.
Harris campaign making renewed push toward Georgia voters
Harris is hoping a large rally will help affirm her campaign’s momentum. Her campaign argues that Harris’ appeal with young people, working-age women and non-white voters have scrambled the dynamics in Georgia and other states that are demographically similar, from North Carolina to Nevada and Arizona.
"The energy is infectious," said Georgia Democratic Chairwoman Nikema Williams, a congresswoman from Atlanta. "My phone has been blowing up. People want to be part of this movement."
In a strategy memo released after the president left the race, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, who held the same role for Biden, reaffirmed the importance of winning Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, a trio of industrial states that have formed the traditional Democratic blue wall.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about Florida’s new 6-week abortion ban during an even the Prime Osborn Convention Center on May 01, 2024 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
But she also argued that the vice president’s place atop the ticket "opens up additional persuadable voters" and described them as "disproportionately Black, Latino and under 30" in places like Georgia.
Republicans, who still control Georgia’s state government, counter that Biden’s lagging popularity and concern over higher consumer prices and immigration will transfer to Harris in the historically conservative state.
But they concede that the landscape suddenly looks much closer to 2020 – when Biden won by about 0.25 percentage points — than when Trump was riding high after the Republican National Convention and surviving an assassination attempt.
"Trump was going to win Georgia. It was over," said Republican consultant Brian Robinson. "The Democrats have a chance here for a reset."
Robinson said Harris still has plenty of liabilities, including the progressive positions she took in her failed 2020 primary campaign and her various rhetorical stumbles. But he said Harris so far in this campaign has been "in command," and if that continues "we have a new ballgame and she will be competitive in Georgia."
Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt did not give similar ground. She dismissed Harris as "just as weak, failed and incompetent as Joe Biden" and said the vice president would have to explain her support of Biden administration policies that "hurt working families in Georgia over the past four years."
The Harris campaign and Georgia Democratic officials have 24 offices across the state, including two added last weekend in metro Atlanta. Trump and the Republican National Committee opened their first Georgia offices only recently.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.