Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Kamala Harris: 'I will always be an American before I am a Republican'
Source: The Guardian
Wed 30 Oct 2024 12.26 EDT
Last modified on Wed 30 Oct 2024 14.30 EDT
The former Republican governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that he is backing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in next weeks election. In a long post on X, Schwarzenegger, 77, said that while he doesnt really do endorsements
hate[s] politics and doesnt trust most politicians, he felt compelled to formally endorse Harris and her pick for vice president Tim Walz.
I will always be an American before I am a Republican, he wrote. Thats why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Im sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You dont recognise our country. And you are right to be furious.
Schwarzenegger, who quit acting between 2003 and 2011 while he served in California, continued by writing that he was disappointed in all those who have been in power in the US over the past decades who have discussed addressing the national debt and our broken immigration system yet not managing to do so. This continued during election campaigning, he said, as politicians prefer having talking points for elections rather than performing the public service that will make Americans lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed, Schwarzenegger wrote.
But a candidate who wont respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea that wont solve our problems.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/30/arnold-schwarzenegger-endorses-kamala-harris-i-will-always-be-an-american-before-i-am-a-republican
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(87,030 posts)Well said, Sir.