Harris and Walz rally in Ann Arbor, as singer Maggie Rogers urges voters to 'choose the light'

(Michigan Advance) The stakes of the election are clear, singer Maggie Rogers told attendees at a Monday rally for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in Ann Arbor. With the future of the country on the line, Rogers said she feels terrified.

“These are such wild and unprecedented times, and the energy feels so high, and the future feels so uncertain, and I don’t always know what to do with that feeling, but there is something to me that is greater than fear, and that’s action,” Rogers said at the event at the University of Michigan. “You can fight back against the fear of Donald Trump and everything that he creates. You can take action against his darkness. You can choose the light.”

So Rogers sang her song “Light On,” giving a new message to “leave the light on” for hope as the crowd lit their phones up at the rally at Burns Park.

The campaign said the rally drew 21,000 people. Harris appealed to the U of M community, located in a Democratic stronghold, praising all the first-time voters in the audience and saying that the baton for the fight for freedom sits in young people’s hands. ...................(more)

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/10/29/harris-and-walz-rally-in-ann-arbor-as-singer-maggie-rogers-urges-voters-to-choose-the-light/