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Lad Gaga: Supports Joe Biden in the US election campaign
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Like numerous other celebrities, Lady Gaga supports the presidential candidate Joe Biden, in Pittsburgh she is supposed to appear at an event on the last election day of the Democrats in the USA.
The election campaign team of incumbent Donald Trump apparently tried to use this for themselves - but the pop star countered.
Trump's campaign communications director Tim Murtough wrote on Twitter: "Nothing shows Joe Biden's contempt for the forgotten working men and women of Pennsylvania like a campaign appearance with anti-fracking activist Lady Gaga."
Murtough is probably alluding to the fact that the singer supported a campaign by artist Yoko Ono against the controversial energy generation technology in 2012.
Trump himself also described the singer on Twitter as an "anti-fracking activist".
The Trump employee described Biden's appearance at Lady Gaga's side as a “desperate attempt” by the Democrats to encourage approval of his “lackluster election campaign”.
But he is a slap in the face for the "600,000 people in Pennsylvania who work in the fracking industry."
Biden, Murtough added, had "repeatedly promised left-wing activists" to ban fracking if elected.
In fact, Biden has criticized fracking, but the Democrat does not want to abolish it completely either.
Lady Gaga responded to the allegations with calls to vote for Trump's opponents.
Lady Gaga published Murtough's tweet on her own channel - and provided him with animated messages such as "Vote Biden" and "LOL", which means something like "To die for," but also "What is fracking?"
Murtough then thanked the pop singer for sharing his review with her 82 million Twitter fans.
He hopes "many people in Pennsylvania see this".
In the US, a new president will be elected on Tuesday.
In Swing State Pennsylvania, the Democratic challenger Biden is around five percentage points ahead of Trump in the polls, according to FiveThirtyEight.
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