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Kerry Washington supports Kamala Harris and says she’s proven herself

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Kerry Washington supports Kamala Harris and says she’s proven herself

Kamala Harris is filling her campaign precinct with stars to get infrequent voters to head to the polls on Nov. 5.

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MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin needed management. So the Harris campaign sent Kerry Washington.

Washington, who played fictional super mechanic Olivia Pope for seven seasons on ABC’s hit series “Scandal,” has rebounded Kamala Harris USA TODAY/University of Suffolk’s new exclusive poll shows supporters on Sunday Dead heat in Wisconsin with the vice president former President Donald Trump.

The Harris campaign is leaving nothing to chance in the Midwest. Last days of the presidential race and sends out all the celebrities and national politicians present.

“You here in Wisconsin have the ability to save the soul of this district, to truly stand between us and a man who said from day one he wanted to be a dictator, to stand between us and a man who said he wanted generals,” Washington said to a roomful of people at a private Harris campaign event at a coffee shop on Sunday. “The black woman looks more like Hitler’s generals,” he said.

Emmy award-winning actress portrayed Olivia Pope across seven hit seasons Helping solve fictional White House crises by 2018. He argues that voters, not TV characters, will decide how the country is run these days.

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Washington told USA TODAY after Harris’ campaign visit that Americans have forgotten how important they are to democracy.

“We expect others to solve our problems and solve them for us. But democracy is really a government by the people, for the people,” he said. “So I’m not here to fix anything. I’m really here to remind people that they have so much more power than Olivia Pope.”

‘It’s not an election we can’t sit through’

Washington said he doesn’t expect voters to change their behavior just because he implored women to vote for Harris on Nov. 5. The actress said she hopes instead that by being in battleground states like Wisconsin, she can remind members of the community how important they are. They are involved in the political process.

“They are the real superheroes right now,” he said. “Real mechanics.”

Harris’ campaign is concerned that the election will fall to a small segment of infrequent voters. The Harris team is hoping they can be motivated to take another look at the Democrat in the final week of the campaign by artists they’ve followed for years and have known longer than Harris.

Artists including BeyonceUsher, Lizzo, Bruce Springsteenand Eminem vouched for Harris in the final days of her race against former President Trump. Saturday night, Michelle Obama campaigned with Harris in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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“This is not an election we can sit out. There’s too much at stake,” Washington said at Sunday’s meeting. he said.

Washington has spoken openly about his feeling that he could have done more to help the former Secretary of State in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton Against Trump. Washington said Pope’s name was trending the morning after Trump’s shock victory, as social media users called on the fictional mechanic for help.

He was active in Harris’ campaign and hosted a program night at the Democratic National Convention in August. Washington spoke Sunday at two invitation-only promotional events held at black-owned small businesses in Milwaukee. He said he recently went to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and will go to Georgia and North Carolina.

Washington will also speak at an Atlanta rally on Tuesday hosted by When We All Vote, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that works to register young people and people of color. He is the co-chairman of the organization founded by Michelle Obama in 2018.

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‘Women make decisions every day, very important decisions’

Shante Nelson, 42, a public policy strategist who came to the Milwaukee event, said anyone with some level of influence should do what Washington does.

“Women make decisions on a daily basis, very important decisions. As a result, we should be able to make decisions about running this country,” she said in a later interview.

The special event with Washington took place at the HoneyBee Sage Wellness & Apothecary Cafe.

Owner Angela Mallett says she was discouraged when her choices went bad President Joe Biden or Trump and had previously chosen not to engage in the political process. He feels that unfulfilled promises were made to the Black community during election seasons.

“But now, given the emergency I face in this country and based on the views and perspectives of one of the candidates (Trump), I don’t think I can dwell on that,” Mallett said.

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Washington to Harris: She has proven herself ‘time and time again’

The evening before the event in Washington, Obama had launched a campaign. burning attack about Trump at a rally with Harris in Michigan. It pushed men in particular to take notice of Harris’ qualities.

“I hope you’ll forgive me if I’m a little disappointed that some of us have chosen to ignore Donald Trump’s gross incompetence while asking Kamala to dazzle us at every opportunity,” Obama said.

Her words resonated with nearly two dozen women who came to hear from Washington the next day. One attendee brought up Obama’s remarks and asked how Washington should talk to people who hold Harris to double standards.

“She’s proven herself,” Washington replied, citing his personal votes for Harris in her previous offices. “The way he has proven himself over and over again in these areas of leadership where he continues to grow in power and authority because he has what it takes and is so ready.”

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Washington encouraged women to pressure people who question Harris’ abilities to explain why they have those concerns to help them become conscious of their assumptions.

“Yes, it’s annoying,” he told them. “These are the moments where… you can’t change ingrained misogyny in one conversation, but you call people out to say, you know, do you believe a woman you know is this talented? The way you are.”

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