Athletes quite often take a stand on political issues, but clubs rarely do so from an official point of view.

Still, Seattle Storm is doing so now that they openly support Democratic candidate Joe Biden ahead of the US presidential election on November 3.

The tweet urges its followers to vote early on Biden, who is facing incumbent President Donald Trump.

In addition to her own tweet, she has also retweeted co-owner Ginny Gilder where she writes the following:

"Normally we do not support candidates, but this is NOT a common case."

CLIP: Several records when Seattle became WNBA champions

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Sue Bird and Seattle Storm won tonight's WNBA final.

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