Octavia Spencer Says Biden and Harris ‘Have Delivered’ at Detroit Rally: ‘Joe Biden Works for You, The Other Guy Works for Himself’
Octavia Spencer reiterated her steadfast support for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at a July 12 campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan calling the current president “a fighter.” The event was held at Renaissance High School, where Biden campaigned ahead of the 2020 presidential primary.
Spencer said Biden has a “bold, positive vision for the future where freedom and democracy are strengthened and where the economy works for everyone.” The Oscar-winner and “Hidden Figures” star pointed to the last election, where Biden narrowly defeated former President Donald Trump in Michigan, with 50.6% of the state’s votes versus Trump’s 47.8%.
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“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have delivered,” Spencer said. “They’ve delivered. They’ve rebuilt a battered economy and brought manufacturing back to our shores. And listen up, ladies: they’re fighting each and every day for our fundamental right to make our own decisions about our own bodies.”
As November inches closer, Spencer said there is one job to do: “Reject Donald Trump once and for all.”
“Americans have a choice to make,” Spencer said. “Who do we trust to fight for us? Do we trust a leader who has kept his promises and fought every day to make life better for all of us? Or do we trust a convicted felon? Joe Biden works for you, the other guy works for himself.”
Spencer also recently attended an Ann Arbor fundraiser with Vice President Kamala Harris in June. The actress has continued to show her support for the Biden campaign on social media, posting after Biden’s performance at the June 27 debate.
“We all know that when you stumble, it’s about how you get back up that’s most important,” Spencer posted on her Instagram two days after the debate.
She has also vehemently detested Project 2025, a blueprint of conservative policy proposals for a future Republican administration that includes pillars like banning DEI initiatives, banning abortion nationwide, restricting birth control access and much more.
Spencer’s support comes just days after George Clooney published an op-ed in the New York Times demanding that Biden drop out of the presidential running.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney wrote in his essay. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
Besides Spencer, Biden was joined by Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist, several Democratic members of Congress, union leaders and other elected officials at the rally.
At the Detroit rally, the president attacked Project 2025 and detailed core policy proposals he hopes to enact within the first 100 days of a second term.
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