HOPE OPRAH
Daily Record|August 23, 2024
Chat show queen tells delegates 'together we can beat Trump lies
CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN
HOPE OPRAH

OPRAH Winfrey brought her A-list power to the Democratic Convention, imploring voters to "choose common sense over nonsense" and ditch Donald Trump and vote for Kamala Harris.

In a surprise appearance before a packed arena, the 70-year-old chat show queen framed November's election as a fight for freedom.

Without naming Harris's Republican rival Trump, she said: "There are people who want you to see our country as a nation of us-against-them, people who want to scare you, who want to rule you, people who'd have you believe that books are dangerous and assault rifles are safe.

"That there's a right way to worship and a wrong way to love. People who seek first to divide and then to conquer. But here's the thing. When we stand together it is impossible to conquer us.

This story is from the August 23, 2024 edition of Daily Record.

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