It’s another big night for celebrities, with legendary musician Stevie Wonder, “Saturday Night Live” star Kenan Thompson and actor/writer/producer Mindy Kaling taking the stage.
Before he performed his classic hit, “Higher Ground,” Wonder encouraged the crowd to keep fighting and “choose joy over kindness over recrimination and peace over war, every time.”
“We must choose to be above the ugly words, the hateful anger and the division those words and anger create,” he said. “We must keep on keeping on until we truly are a united people of these United States, and then, and then, we will reach a higher ground.”
Thompson took on Project 2025, calling on voters to talk about various parts of the controversial agenda, like banning abortion nationwide and raising the prices of prescription drugs.
“These are the terms and conditions of a second Trump presidency. You vote for him. You vote for all of this,” he said before launching into the specifics.
He recalled a woman named Becky who has been with her wife for about eight years.
“That’s amazing. Very, very cute,” he said. “But I have got some bad news for you: On page 584, Project 2025, calls for the elimination of protections for LGBTQ+ Americans.”
Next was Kaling, who talked about sharing an Indian ancestry with Harris, jokingly referring to herself as “the woman who courageously outed Kamala Harris as Indian in an Instagram cooking video.”
Both of their mothers were immigrants who passed down “optimism and fearlessness” to their daughters, Kaling said.
“Kamala Harris cares deeply about other people. She will fight to protect our freedoms, because those are the values that her mother passed down to her,” she said.
