Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Gretchen Wilson was the latest featured endorser of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at his Wisconsin campaign rally Saturday.
"Also with us is famed country singer — and she wrote some songs that have been top of the line and a winner of awards all over the place — Gretchen Wilson," Trump said during the rally, which aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax and the free Newsmax2 streaming platform.
Wilson, like other Trump endorsers, said she did not leave the Democratic Party, but that the party left her.
"Now, back in the day, my family were all Kennedy Democrats, but that's when the Democrats were on the side of the people," she said on stage. "Once I started paying attention to what was really going on, I realized the Democratic Party left us.
"As a songwriter, I pay close attention to words, the words that are being used and the words that are not being used.
"I urge all Americans to pay close attention to what you are hearing and not hearing from the media, because the issues that are most important for our survival are what we're voting on.
"I'm here today to entertain you, but I'm also here today to show my support for the only team in this race that is telling you the truth."
Wilson hailed herself as the embodiment of the famed American dream — a belief in bootstrapping for success from all walks of life that Trump vows to restore.
"My story isn't really that rare, but the American dream that I have been fortunate enough to find will most certainly be lost forever if we do not show up and vote for freedom in November," Wilson continued. "It is on us. Let's make sure we the people do all we can to save our country by voting for President Trump and J.D. Vance."
Wilson also hailed Vance for being from middle America and rising through hard work and not privilege, race, or gender.
"My name again is Gretchen Wilson; I'm a midwesterner; I come from a very small town in southern Illinois; I grew up very much like Sen. J.D. Vance," she began in her brief on-stage remarks. "I had to work hard and fight my way out of poverty, just like many other Americans have done. But this is what I was taught to do: To earn my way.
"Since then, I've done the impossible. I am now a Grammy Award-winning country music artist, a producer, a songwriter, and most importantly, a mom."
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