Former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump and VP candidate, Senator JD Vance rallied on Saturday night in the battleground state of Georgia. Trump entered the lion’s den of Atlanta, the same chocolate city where Vice President and selected Democrat nominee Kamala Harris held her concert/rally four days prior. While both Democrats and Republicans boasted of record crowds for each rally, the distinction is that Trump did not have to use the lure of celebrities and rappers to draw in his crowd; he used his own star power, coupled with local talent and grassroots politicians and activists.
The founder of Conserve the Culture, Michaelah Montgomery, helped open the rally, and lit it up, distinguishing herself from her initial entrance to the political stage–after she hugged Trump during an Atlanta Chick-fil-A visit in April. Montgomery bounded to the rally podium, bursting with energy, and smoothly rattled off her grassroots pedigree and work in the local community. Montgomery playfully commanded that they, “put some respect on my name!” She received rousing applause for this throwing down of the gauntlet against the legacy media, which had merely dubbed her a Trump plant.
Montgomery quickly launched into the meat of her speech.
Now, why don’t we jump right into it. As a young single mother, I can tell ya’ll that rent is too damn high. I can tell you that as a young Black voter, groceries are too damned high! And as an American citizen, period, seniors like my parents should never have to choose between medicine or food, it should never be the quality of life versus the quantity of life.
On the real, Montgomery masterfully hit how inflation affects young, old, and everyone in between.
And I don’t want to hear, “Oh, but we capped the price of insulin and lowered the price of all these medicines.” Yeah, but you raised the price of everything else, so it’s about time to start telling the truth to Americans and let them know exactly what they’re signing up for if they want to vote for Kamala Harris.
Way to speak truth to power. While Harris is using twerking performers and “Yas Queen” vibes to rally people, Americans want to hear about actual policy, and how electing her will make their lives any better. Montgomery spoke to this.
Who?
Michaelah Montgomery !!