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Robert De Niro tailgates with Eagles fans while campaigning for Kamala Harris

Robert De Niro tailgates with Eagles fans while campaigning for Kamala Harris

Election season doesn’t stop for anyone, not even the Eagles. Philadelphia is the center of the election universe, so with just a few days before voting, Robert De Niro, former Secretary of State John Kerry, and state and local Democratic representatives headed to South Philadelphia to campaign for Kamala Harris.

Kerry and De Niro hosted a voting event at M Lot at Lincoln Financial Field, where they met with Eagles fans and stopped by the tailgate to encourage voters to elect Harris on Tuesday.

De Niro gave a speech in the plots in which he defended women’s reproductive freedom and criticized former President Donald Trump.

De Niro has been an outspoken critic of Trump for years and has been actively campaigning in the Philadelphia area in the final days leading up to the election. He received loud cheers and a warm reception from a number of different groups in the parking lot, who posted on social media after seeing the Academy Award winner in person. He even ate pressed duck with fans in the parking lot.

Pennsylvania Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon even played a game of flip cup with tailgaters, while Kerry and De Niro took photos with Birds fans.

The canvassers were done with ‘Go Birds’. Go Kamala. Go vote for November 5th stickers to pass out.

De Niro is a New Yorker, but he famously played an Eagles fan Silver Linings Playbookin which he plays the on-screen father of real-life Birds fan Bradley Cooper.