Obama, Lady Gaga, and John Legend take stage for Biden-Harris Election Day eve push

On the eve of Election Day, Joe Biden set his sights on the Rust Belt and got some star-studded help from Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, and John Legend.

The former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee started the day in Cleveland, Ohio — a reach state for his campaign, which he said he visited at the request of Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.

Pennsylvania, though, was the star of the campaign. Biden, his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, and their spouses all barnstormed the Keystone State, which is critical to the campaign’s path to securing the winning number of 270 electoral votes.

Harris launched the day of campaigning in the once reliably Democratic working-class Luzerne County that President Trump won in 2016, outside Biden’s birth city of Scranton. A line forming for Trump’s rally there later in the day was visible.

“This moment will pass, and years from now, our children, our grandchildren, others, they’re gonna ask us, they will ask us each, they’ll look in our eyes, each one of us, and they will ask us, ‘Where were you at that moment?’” Harris said.

As the two candidates focused on Pennsylvania, which has lower levels of early voting than other battleground states, Obama gave closing arguments for Biden in Georgia, another reach state, and Florida.

Obama’s speeches were stuffed with swipes at the Trump administration, including for challenging the constitutionality of his signature healthcare law.

“Now, they’re in the Supreme Court trying to get the Supreme Court to take your healthcare away in the middle of a pandemic. Why would you do that? Just to spite me?” Obama said in Atlanta.

The charismatic campaigner was a contrast to his verbal stumble-prone former running mate and, at one point, outshined him.

An Obama speech in Miami occurred at the same time that the Democratic presidential nominee addressed a drive-in rally in Pittsburgh, and both CNN and MSNBC opted to air the former president’s speech rather than Biden’s.

Singer Lady Gaga was the star of Biden’s final event of the night. The international pop sensation teased that she would be appearing at a campaign event with Biden in which she, dressed in a camouflage crop-top ensemble standing next to a pickup truck, cracked open a beer, and threw it to the ground. The Trump campaign slammed the singer as an “anti-fracking activist.”

Biden and Lady Gaga made a surprise photo-op appearance at the University of Pittsburgh, with the singer wearing a “VOTE” face mask and platform high heels.

In the evening, a cross-state, livestreamed concert event. Biden and Lady Gaga were in Pittsburgh; in Philadelphia were Harris and singer John Legend — who endorsed Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the presidential primary.

“We all know that this thing may come down to Pennsylvania,” Lady Gaga said before performing