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.
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