Linda Ronstadt Endorses Kamala Harris After Donald Trump Schedules Rally at Music Hall Named After Her
Linda Ronstadt has endorsed Kamala Harris while speaking out against Donald Trump’s scheduled rally at Tucson, Arizona’s Linda Ronstadt Music Hall.
In a statement shared on Instagram on Wednesday night, the “Blue Bayou” singer wrote, “Donald Trump is holding a rally on Thursday in a rented hall in my hometown, Tucson. I would prefer to ignore that sad fact. But since the building has my name on it, I need to say something.
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“It saddens me to see the former President bring his hate show to Tucson, a town with deep Mexican-American roots and a joyful, tolerant spirit,” she continued. Ronstadt explained that she doesn’t “just deplore his toxic politics, his hatred of women, immigrants and people of color, his criminality, dishonesty and ignorance—although there’s that.
“For me it comes down to this: In Nogales and across the southern border, the Trump Administration systematically ripped apart migrant families seeking asylum,” Ronstadt wrote. “Family separation made orphans of thousands of little children and babies, and brutalized their desperate mothers and fathers. It remains a humanitarian catastrophe that Physicians for Human Rights said met the criteria for torture. There is no forgiving or forgetting the heartbreak he caused.”
The 11-time Grammy winner finished her thoughts on the former president with a biting remark: “Trump first ran for president warning about rapists coming in from Mexico. I’m worried about keeping the rapist out of the White House.”
“P.S. to J.D. Vance,” she added. “I raised two adopted children in Tucson as a single mom. They are both grown and living in their own houses. I live with a cat. Am I half a childless cat lady because I’m unmarried and didn’t give birth to my kids? Call me what you want, but this cat lady will be voting proudly in November for @kamalaharris and @timwalz.” The artist paired her callout to Trump’s running mate with a photo of herself smiling while holding her pet.
Ronstadt isn’t the only famous singer to voice her support for Kamala Harris while calling out Vance’s controversial comments about the U.S. being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies.” Taylor Swift took to Instagram after the Harris-Trump debate on Tuesday, signing off her statement as a “Childless Cat Lady” after detailing why she’s voting for Harris.
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