Joe Biden predicts ‘big win’ at election eve rally with Lady Gaga

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Democratic nominee Joe Biden predicted victory as he stood yards away from pop star Lady Gaga in Pittsburgh Monday night, his final campaign appearance before Election Day. 

Biden’s campaign put on simultaneous election eve rallies in both corners of Pennsylvania, which could – again – determine the final election result. 

‘It isn’t always easy to bring together western Pennsylvania with eastern Pennsylvania. But you know what? The Steelers got a big win yesterday and the Eagles got a big win last night,’ Biden said. 

‘And folks – I have a feeling we’re coming together for another big win tomorrow,’ he said to cheers. 

He told the socially distanced crowd that, ‘It’s time for Donald Trump to pack his bags and go home.’ 

Biden also made fun of Trump for his ‘macho man’ demeanor – the president plays the Village People song at all of his rallies – as he proposed to the crowd, ‘Let’s fire Donald Trump and I’ll hire Dr. Fauci!’

Gaga’s pitch to Pittsburgh was that voters there could finally make Trump pay for his infamous ‘grab ’em by the p****’ comments – by voting for Biden in Pennsylvania Tuesday. 

‘Now is your chance to vote against Donald Trump, a man who believes his fame gives him the right to grab one of your daughters or sisters or mothers or wives by any part of their body,’ the songstress told a drive-in rally in front of Heinz Field, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pitt Panthers. 

‘Vote for Joe, he’s a good person,’ she added.  

Later, Gaga played ‘Shallow’ and ‘You and I’ on a white piano. 

She told the crowd how she previously lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, thanks to an ex-fiance, but called Biden, who heralds from Scranton, the replacement. 

‘So Joe’s my new Pennsylvania guy!’ Gaga said, sporting a white sweatshirt that said ‘JOE’ with a cupid’s arrow and heart over it. 

Gaga was speaking about her ex Taylor Kinney. 

Moments later she apologized to her current boyfriend Michael Polansky for bringing Kinney, who she did not name, up. 

‘You know, to my boyfriend that’s here tonight, I’m so sorry I had to do the whole Pennsylvania and I dated a guy here thing – I love you so much,’ the singer said. ‘It’s true.’ 

She told Pennsylvanians in the crowd, ‘You’ve got a lot of heart.’  

Earlier Monday, Biden visited the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh with Gaga, standing underneath Pitt’s famed Cathedral of Learning, in an effort to excite young voters to come out to the polls on Election Day. 

‘You guys can own this election. You can own it. I really mean it. I’m counting on you. We’re counting on you,’ Biden told a group of students, some who were outside doing volunteer work for the Democrat’s campaign. 

Gaga wore a bedazzled ‘VOTE’ mask, a black pantsuit with a large bow and sky-high heels. She carried a fan that said ‘I’m a fan of voting for Biden and Harris,’ despite it being 39 degrees. 

‘Now, Lady Gaga’s going to be speaking, and I’m going to be singing,’ Biden joked earlier at a surprise stop on the University of Pittsburgh’s campus. 

‘We’ve been friends for a while – I can’t thank you enough for all you’re doing,’ Biden told the pop star.  

‘I’m so excited. This is wonderful. Thank you everybody,’ Gaga said.  

On the other side of the state, John Legend played the same role in Philadelphia and appear alongside Democratic vice presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. 

Legend backed Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Democratic primary. 

Legend’s Philadelphia performance – and a quick speech by Patti LaBelle – were shown on the jumbotron screens at the Pittsburgh event. 

The singer brought along wife Chrissy Teigen and the couple’s two kids, who appeared onstage. Legend played ‘Never Break,’ which was inspired by Teigen, who suffered a miscarriage earlier this fall.

When he spoke to the crowd, he reminded them that he had attended the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philly.  

‘But don’t hold me responsible for all of our alumni,’ Legend said. ‘Some of them, you know, slip through the cracks.’

Trump went to Penn’s Wharton business school.  

Legend also went after the handful of hip-hop stars who recently came out for Trump, including 50 Cent, who complained about Biden’s tax plan, which taxes Americans who make more than $400,000 a year more than they are paying now.

 ‘Some of your former favorite rappers have been taken in by these lies,’ Legend said. I think they’ve formed a new supergroup ‘the sunken place,” he said, a ‘Get Out’ reference.

Legend then surprised the drive-in crowd and brought Common alongside him to perform their Civil Rights anthem from the film ‘Selma,’ ‘Glory.’ 

Barack Obama, meanwhile, was campaigning on Monday in Georgia – a state which could choose a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in nearly three decades.

‘Georgia could be the state,’ he told the crowd, gathered outside Georgia State University’s Center Parc Stadium. 

‘Georgia could be the place where we put this country back on track and not just because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a chance to win Georgia, but you’ve got the chance to flip two Senate seats.’

Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, and a candidate for the Senate, also spoke at the drive-in rally. 

‘Out of all the places President Barack Obama could be, he’s right here,’ said Rev. Warnock. 

‘We are all here because this is the moment and this is the place. Are you ready? There is something special happening in this state. I can feel it. There is energy on the ground. There is hope on the horizon. There is change in the air. Can you feel it?’

Obama urged Georgians to not only vote, but help their friends and family to vote as well.

‘You can deliver the change that we need, but you’re going to have to vote,’ he said. 

‘If you haven’t dropped off your ballot yet, please do not wait any longer. If you voted already, help your friends and family find their polling places at IWillVote.com. 

‘Help them make a plan to vote tomorrow because this election’s going to take every single one of us.’

Obama then wrapped up the evening with a drive-in rally in Miami. 

Gaga and Legend, the celebrity surrogates, were added to the schedule Sunday.    

‘Good morning PENNSYLVANIA! I’m so excited to see you today and SING for you!!!!!!!’ Gaga tweeted Monday morning, before her arrival in one of Pennsylvania’s bluest population centers. 

The announcement that she would be appearing with Biden was greeted gleefully by the Trump campaign who immediately called her an ‘anti-fracking activist.’ 

The pop star gleefully responded to a Trump campaign statement put out by Communications Director Tim Murtaugh Sunday night.  

‘HEY TIM HEY,’ she wrote. ‘SO HAPPY IM GLAD TO BE LIVING RENT FREE in your HEAD.’ 

She tagged the tweet with the hashtag for Biden-Harris. 

On Saturday, Gaga was criticized when she appeared in a video that appeared to mock ‘rednecks.’

‘Hey, this is Lady Gaga. I’m voting for America, which means I’m voting for Joe Biden,’ she says in the spot. 

The pop star is dressed in camouflage  – but with over-the-knee boots and large sunglasses – and drinks a beer as she leans on a pick-up truck.

She brought up the controversy while onstage in Pittsburgh Monday night. 

Gaga said she wore clothing from Cabela’s when she went four-wheeling, so her outfit wasn’t a departure from who she was in real life. 

‘I will not be told what I can and cannot wear,’ the singer said. ‘I may not always look like you, but I am you,’ she added.   

Trump, who is concluding his five rallies in Grand Rapids, Michigan – where he ended his 2016 campaign – might find Gaga’s appearance a welcome sign, as he’s – as the New York Times recently put it – very superstitious. 

Lady Gaga also performed on behalf of Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic nominee’s election eve rally. 

At an earlier Pittsburgh event, aimed at black voters in the North Point Breeze and Homewood neighborhoods, Biden appeared with a local celebrity, former Pittsburgh Steeler Franco Harris. 

The ex-senator and former vice president told the audience how the Rooney family, the owners of Pittsburgh’s six-time Super Bowl-winning NFL franchise, had been there for him after his first wife and baby daughter were killed in a car crash in 1972. 

‘The Rooney family had flown out with a few players: Rocky Bleier and Franco Harris with the footballs and no publicity,’ Biden told the crowd. ‘They spent 45 minutes with my boys. Then they got on the plane and went home.’

‘That’s who we are as a country. We look out for each other,’ Biden added.  

Biden’s wife Jill also did her part to secure the Pittsburgh-area vote by stopping by a Sheetz on Monday. The gas station chain is a favorite of Western Pennsylvanians, where there is a fierce rivaly with Philadelphia’s Wawa.