Watch Michael Stipe Perform With Jon Bon Jovi And The War & Treaty At Harris-Walz Rally In Atlanta

Politics is about coalition-building, which is how you end up with musical artists from different contexts like Michael Stipe, Jon Bon Jovi, and the War & Treaty performing a song together onstage. At a rally for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Sunday in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna, attended by Walz and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Stipe performed a number of R.E.M. songs and told a story about meeting Harris and Emhoff at a restaurant in New York six years ago.