Vice President Kamala Harris held her final campaign rally Monday night, 106 days after President Biden retired, with a heavy dose of celebrity, trying to recapture the joy that characterized her first weeks in office.

At a rally in Philadelphia in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, next to the stairs where Rocky Balboa ran in the “Rocky” film franchise, he implored a raucous crowd to make a plan to vote.

“One more day, just one more day in the most consequential election of our lives,” he said. “And the momentum is on our side.”

The rally was intended to be a show of force: bringing celebrity firepower to the largest city in the most important swing state that was also the birthplace of American democracy. It featured Fat Joe, Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, The Roots, will.i.am and Oprah Winfrey.

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The event was part of a simulcast that lasted more than four hours in several cities, including Las Vegas and Phoenix. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz addressed a crowd in Milwaukee. Sugarland performed in Raleigh. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer spoke from Detroit, where Jon Bon Jovi also performed.

“Don’t you know who you’re voting for?” said Fat Joe, who featured a musical number by fellow Puerto Rican Ricky Martin in a speech in Philadelphia in which he criticized former President Trump for having a comedian insult Puerto Ricans during his rally last week. “You’ve got to be kidding me at this point.”

Lady Gaga performed a moving version of “God Bless America” ​​and spoke about women’s empowerment, warming up the crowd. Winfrey brought 10 first-time voters on stage and asked several of them why they were casting their votes.

“We are voting for healing over hate,” Winfrey said.

The atmosphere was celebratory, but Democrats are tense. Polls show a volatile race with Pennsylvania, the largest of the seven battleground states, nearly even as well.

“Everyone is a little nervous, which is understandable,” said Sara Grimaldi, 22, who has been working on youth voter turnout for a feminist group throughout the campaign.

She came to make a last-minute call and release some of that anxiety with Lady Gaga, she said. “Screaming when you’re stressed helps.”

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Democrats hope their running game, two years in the making, will push Harris over the top. The campaign said about 110,000 volunteers have worked in the state since Harris took over from Biden three months ago, and were on track to knock on 5 million doors.

Tal Tigay, a 43-year-old real estate developer, came with her 12-year-old daughter, Nina, and her friend Ella, also 12 years old. Tigay had taken Nina to a Hillary Clinton rally eight years ago to see the first woman. presidential candidate.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t win, but it was important for my daughter to be here at this time,” Tigay said.

Violet Perloff, a freshman at George Washington University in Washington, rescheduled an exam and returned home by train so she could vote for the first time. He brought a bejeweled “Harris” sign he made in his bedroom.

“I had the opportunity to show my support,” he said. “So I thought, I want to do it. I want to go out and show that I care about my rights and the future of this country.”

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