Candidate: Hillary Clinton
Demi Lovato
Pop singer, former Disney star
Wooing: millennials, especially young women
“I don’t think there’s a woman more confident than Hillary Clinton,” she said. “I truly believe that there is nobody more qualified to run this country, our country, than our secretary of state.”
Candidate: Bernie Sanders
Killer Mike
Rapper, activist
Wooing: African-Americans, young people, music fans
“Bernie Sanders is doing this,” he said. “He’s went and co-opted a crazy rapper that he knew very little about but trusted, and I am glad he did. I’ve gotten hip hop to pay some attention to him, and I think he is worth paying attention to.”
He added, “I am virtually the guy that shouldn’t want to vote for him, yet common sense and logic bring me to him because for the greater good of the community, it makes the most sense.”
Candidate: Hillary Clinton
Tony Goldwyn
Actor who plays the president on ABC’s “Scandal”
Wooing: middle-aged and older women, families
“When I hear Hillary Clinton’s version of America, I recognize that and that is a place that I am proud to call my country,” he said.
Candidate: Bernie Sanders
Sarah Silverman
Comedian, actress
Wooing: Young people, women, people in the entertainment world
“You know, I feel weird using words like ‘values’ and ‘morals’ because those are words that have been co-opted by people who wear them as shrouds to justify terrible things like bigotry and greed,” she said.
“I’d like to take those words back tonight to use them to describe Bernie Sanders, because his moral compass and sense of values inspires me,” she added.
Candidate: Hillary Clinton
Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress
Wooing: middle-aged and older women
“Remember the term ‘merit based’?” she said. “When you get something because you’ve earned it? Hillary Clinton is the merit-based candidate in this election.”
Candidate: Bernie Sanders
Cornel West
Civil rights activist, scholar
Wooing: African-Americans, college students
“Here we then have brother Sanders, who is coming from the vanilla side of the country, who is sensitive to the chocolate folk in the country, and then still willing to confront Wall Street after having spent time in Congress, as representative and senator and, of course, mayor, as well,” he said.
“So it is a very unique moment and there is a real sense in which it could very well be America’s last chance for the legacy of King to be addressed in a serious way,” he added. “And it is a fascinating thing — it could be a brother from Brooklyn who is leaping.”
Candidate: Hillary Clinton
Billie Jean King
Tennis legend, women’s rights activist
Wooing: women; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters
“She’s got the gift,” she said. “She is a leader. She’s got guts. She’s everything we want in our leaders. And she’s got it. That’s it.”
Candidate: Bernie Sanders
Bill McKibben
Environmentalist, author
Wooing: People concerned about climate change, students
“All I can do is sort of testify to the fact that Bernie has been there for a long time on these issues,” he said. “And that his commitment is very real. So people need to know that, because he has sort of come out of nowhere in the last year.”
Candidate: Hillary Clinton
Katy Perry
Pop singer
Wooing: young voters, women
“How many of you are going to be 18 next year, before November?” she said. “Listen, you have so much power and this is going to be one of the most important elections in over a decade.”
Candidate: Bernie Sanders
Danny DeVito
Actor
Wooing: artists, musicians, people who dislike Donald J. Trump
“I’m into Bernie Sanders,” he said. “I think Bernie Sanders is somebody that we really have to focus on—especially now. Whether or not the money buys the other contenders, we still have to stay together on Bernie, because Bernie’s got the goods. He really knows what he’s talking about and he’s got all the issues down.”
Candidate: Hillary Clinton
Cory Booker
Senator, social media maven
Wooing: African-Americans, young people
“This is the land where my grandfather was born and raised — Des Moines, Iowa,” he said. “My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
SOURCE: New York Times