WATCH LIVE: Harris hosts campaign rally in Houston, Texas

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Beyoncé is expected to appear at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday in her hometown of Houston, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The campaign rally is scheduled for Friday, October 25th at 3:00 p.m. EDT. Watch it live in our player above.

Harris’ presidential campaign has adopted Beyonce’s 2016 track “Freedom” as its anthem, and the singer’s planned performance brings a high level of star power to what has become a key theme of the Democratic candidacy: freedom.

Harris will travel to the reliably Republican state just 10 days before Election Day to refocus her campaign against former President Donald Trump on reproductive health, a crucial issue for Democrats this year.

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The three people were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The Harris campaign did not immediately comment.

Beyoncé’s performance was expected to draw even more attention to the event – and to Harris’ final message.

Harris’ Houston trip will feature women affected by Texas’ restrictive abortion laws, which came into force after the Supreme Court’s 2022 Roe v. seven most battleground states.

Harris has focused her campaign on the idea that Trump poses a threat to American freedoms, from reproductive and LGBTQ rights to the freedom to be safe from gun violence.

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Beyonce gave Harris permission early in her campaign to use “Freedom,” a soulful track from her breakthrough 2016 album “Lemonade,” in her debut ad. Since then, Harris has used its thumping chorus as a walk-out song at rallies.

Beyoncé’s collaboration with Harris isn’t the first time the Grammy winner has teamed up with a Democratic politician. Barack Obama and his wife Michelle danced as Beyoncé performed at the 2009 presidential inauguration ball.

In 2013, she sang the national anthem at Obama’s second inauguration. Three years later, she and her husband Jay-Z performed at a pre-election concert for Democrat Hillary Clinton in Cleveland.

“Look how far we’ve come from speechlessness to the precipice of history — again,” Beyoncé said at the time. “But we have to vote.”

A poll conducted in January by Ipsos for the anti-polarization organization With Honor found that 64 percent of Democrats had a positive opinion of Beyoncé, compared to just 32 percent of Republicans. Overall, Americans were more likely to have a positive opinion than a negative one, 48 percent to 33 percent.

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Speculation about whether the superstar would appear at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer reached a peak on the final night of the meeting, when rumors began circulating online after celebrity news site TMZ posted an article saying so : “Beyoncé is in Chicago getting ready to stop by for Kamala Harris on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.” The site attributed this to “multiple knowledgeable sources,” none of whom were named.

About an hour after Harris finished her speech, TMZ updated its story to say, “To quote the great Beyoncé: We need to lay our cards down, lay them down, lay them down…we got this wrong.” Harris ended up taking the stage to the star’s song, but that was his only appearance.

Last year, Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff attended Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour in Maryland after receiving tickets from Beyoncé herself. “Thanks for a fun date night @Beyonce,” Harris wrote on Instagram.

Long and Kinnard reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Linley Sanders in Washington contributed to this report.