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Beyoncé releases an Election Day music video urging Americans to vote while dressed as Pamela Anderson in “Baywatch.”

In a new video released early Election Day, Beyoncé channels Pamela Anderson on TV’s “Baywatch” — red swimsuit and all — and urges viewers to vote.

In the two-and-a-half-minute clip, which plays most of “Bodyguard,” a four-minute cut from her 2024 country album “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé stars as Anderson’s character before concluding with a simple message written in white text: ” Happy Beylloween,” followed by “Vote.”

At a rally for Donald Trump in Pittsburgh on Monday night, the former president made disparaging comments about Beyoncé’s performance at a Kamala Harris rally in Houston in October, prompting boos for the megastar from his supporters.

“Beyoncé would come in. Everyone expects a few songs. There were no songs. There was no luck,” Trump said.

She didn’t perform – unlike in 2016, when she appeared at a presidential campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland – but she supported Harris and gave a moving speech, first joined by her Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland on stage.

“I am not here as a celebrity, I am not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother,” Beyoncé said.

“A mother who cares deeply about the world in which my children and all our children live, a world in which we have the freedom to decide about our bodies, a world in which we are not divided,” said them at the rally in Houston’s hometown.

“Imagine our daughters growing up and seeing what is possible, with no ceilings and no restrictions,” she continued. “We have to vote, and we need you.”

The Harris campaign has adopted Beyonce’s track “Freedom,” a cut from her breakthrough 2016 album “Lemonade,” as its anthem.

Harris used the song in July during her first official public appearance as a presidential candidate at her campaign office in Delaware. That same month, Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, publicly endorsed Harris for president.

Beyoncé gave Harris permission to use the song, a campaign official granted anonymity to discuss private campaign activities confirmed to The Associated Press.

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