HOUSTON, TX — Kamala Harris had two goals when she arrived in Texas Friday for a mega-rally with Beyoncé: Convince people who don’t live in the state to vote for her, and convince people who do live in the state to vote for someone else.
Harris knows she’s not going to win Texas in just over a week, and she knows how valuable her last days on the trail are. But her campaign saw a unique opportunity to use Texas as the centerpiece for her argument about abortion access while lifting up a Democrat who people close to her say has a real shot at unseating Sen. Ted Cruz.
“Though we are in Texas tonight, for anyone watching from another state, if you think you are protected from Trump abortion bans because you live in Michigan, or Pennsylvania, or Nevada, or New York, or California, or any state where voters or legislators have protected reproductive freedom, please know: No one is protected. Because a Donald Trump national ban will outlaw abortion in every single state,” Harris said at the Shell Energy Stadium in Houston to a crowd of 30,000 people, per the campaign, her largest crowd yet.