Stevie Wonder lends his support Biden, Obama deliver a surprise stop
Stevie Wonder was back in his home state of Michigan to get out the vote for Joe Biden. “The only way we’re gonna win this fight, a fight against injustice, is by voting,” he told a crowd gathered at a drive-in rally in Detroit on Saturday. “We must vote justice in and injustice out.”
Wonder, who is from Saginaw, Michigan, also joked about President Donald Trump’s debatestage comments telling the far-right group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” “You know what we say in the ghetto when somebody says that, right?” he asked the crowd, adding, “Watch yourself, get your a-- whipped.” Wonder warmed up the crowd before Biden and former President Barack Obama aspoke. He’s a frequent performer at Democratic political events and campaigned for both Obama in 2008 and 2012 and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Wonder called the Nov. 3 election “the most important one in my lifetime.”
Joe Biden and Barack Obama thanked a group of young canvassers in Michigan and encouraging them to stay involved in politics after the election.
The Democrats made a surprise stop Saturday at a canvass kickoff in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as they drove from a campaign event in Flint to a later one in Detroit. About three dozen volunteers, most of them young people, had gathered in socially distanced lines in a church parking lot, ready to pick up canvassing materials.
The former president and vice president thanked the group for their work. Obama told the volunteers that “change is possible, but it’s not guaranteed.”
Biden told the crowd their work makes a difference in an election where they are “literally fighting for our democracy.” He suggested the young volunteers run for office.