Vice President Kamala Harris is enlisting some of her most high-profile surrogates in the closing days of the campaign, hoping those names will help energize her supporters to vote early in the 2024 election.

On Thursday, Harris will headline a Georgia rally that will include a performance from Bruce Springsteen, whose career spans over five decades, and an appearance by former President Barack Obama, still one of the biggest names in Democratic politics.

Pop superstar Beyoncé will appear Friday with Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in Houston about abortion rights, according to two people briefed on the plans, adding another gold-plated name to the list of celebrities who have thrown their support behind Harris, including Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey and Robert De Niro.

Beyoncé, a Houston native, is one of the most commercially successful musicians of the 21st century and has hundreds of millions of followers on social media, including many Black voters and younger Americans. Her music has already become familiar at Harris’ large campaign rallies: The vice president enters and exits the stage to “Freedom,” a song from Beyoncé’s 2016 album, “Lemonade.”

It was not immediately clear if Beyoncé planned to endorse Harris on Friday, something Democrats had long hoped for. But her appearance, which was earlier reported by The Washington Post, will be seen as a clear show of support. Country music legend Willie Nelson will also attend the rally.

While the Friday rally is in a red state that even the most optimistic Democrat knows the vice president is unlikely to turn blue in November, her event on Thursday in Georgia highlights the state’s prominent place in her possible path to defeating former President Donald Trump.

Harris is speaking in Houston to highlight Texas’ almost total abortion ban — and to castigate Trump, who appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade. Harris will also have the chance to elevate the long-shot bid of Rep. Colin Allred, a Democrat challenging Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

She has made the concept of freedom a major theme of her run for the White House, arguing that Democrats embody that ideal far more than do Republicans, who have passed a series of abortion bans in conservative states. This summer, Beyoncé granted permission to the Harris campaign to use “Freedom,” a hard-charging anthem of empowerment, according to CNN.

Between Beyoncé and Swift, who endorsed Harris minutes after her debate against Trump in September, the vice president now has the backing of two of the world’s most popular musicians, who carry particular influence with younger people.

President Joe Biden was struggling badly with young voters — a key part of his coalition in 2020 — before he dropped out of the race in July, polls showed. Since becoming the Democratic Party’s nominee, Harris has made significant progress in recouping their support.

At the Democratic National Convention in August, rumors swirled that Beyoncé would appear onstage to deliver her endorsement, setting off a fever dream of anticipation among attendees. But the speculation turned out to be just that, and she did not show up.

Thursday’s event is the first in the campaign’s “When We Vote We Win” concert series that aims to encourage Harris supporters to vote before Election Day.

Harris said she’s “very honored” to have Obama’s support and called Springsteen an “American icon.” Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry and DJ Mix Master David will also headline the event.

Harris is not the only member of the Democratic campaign to lean on star power in the final days. Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, will have events in North Carolina on Thursday alongside singer-songwriter James Taylor.

Springsteen has long been a supporter of Democratic presidential campaigns. The artist backed Obama in 2008 and 2012, even endorsing the would-be president in the contentious 2008 Democratic primary. He backed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, performing at a Philadelphia rally on the eve of Election Day, and endorsed Biden in 2020. The New Jersey artist endorsed Harris earlier this month, calling Trump the “most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime.”

Beyoncé, too, backed Clinton in 2016, performing at an event in Cleveland alongside husband and rapper Jay Z just days before Election Day that year.

In a more traditional campaign appearance, Harris went to a Philadelphia suburb on Wednesday night for a CNN town hall, where she faced questions from undecided voters. The event was arranged after Trump declined to participate in a second debate with her.

Early in the broadcast, she readily agreed with the host, Anderson Cooper, when he asked whether she believed Trump met the definition of a fascist. “Yes, I do,” she quickly shot back. “Yes, I do.”

Her answer came shortly after the release of interviews in The New York Times and The Atlantic magazine with John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, who used the same term to describe the Republican nominee and described Trump as frequently endorsing Adolf Hitler’s rule.

Associated Press contributed.