Arnold Schwarzenegger Endorses Kamala Harris

The actor was the Republican governor of California from 2003 to 2011. Nevertheless, he has beforehand expressed criticism for Donald Trump, saying in 2016, “For the primary time since I grew to become a citizen in 1983, I cannot vote for the Republican candidate for President.”

Explaining how his time as governor taught him to view politics via a cooperative coverage lens moderately than a party-based one, he continued, “Let me be trustworthy with you: I don’t like both occasion proper now…It’s most likely not a shock that I hate politics greater than ever, which, in case you are a standard one who isn’t hooked on this crap, you most likely perceive. I need to tune out.”

“However I can’t. As a result of rejecting the outcomes of an election is as un-American because it will get. To somebody like me who talks to folks everywhere in the world and nonetheless is aware of America is the shining metropolis on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me livid,” the 77-year-old wrote.

“I’ll at all times be an American earlier than I’m a Republican. That’s why, this week, I’m voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” he defined. “I’m sharing it with all of you as a result of I feel there are quite a lot of you who really feel like I do. You don’t acknowledge our nation. And you’re proper to be livid.”

“However a candidate who received’t respect your vote except it’s for him, a candidate who will ship his followers to storm the Capitol whereas he watches with a Eating regimen Coke, a candidate who has proven no potential to work to cross any coverage apart from a tax reduce that helped his donors and different wealthy folks like me however helped nobody else else, a candidate who thinks People who disagree with him are the larger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea — that received’t resolve our issues,” Arnold continued, saying {that a} vote for Trump could be “4 extra years of bullshit with no outcomes.”

“That’s sufficient cause for me to share my vote with all of you. I need to transfer ahead as a rustic, and although I’ve loads of disagreements with their platform, I feel the one manner to do this is with Harris and Walz,” he concluded. “And even in the event you disagree with me, vote, as a result of that’s what we do as People.”

Arnold is not the one Republican to have endorsed Kamala. The list contains Former Vice President Dick Cheney, Former Consultant Adam Kinzinger, and Former Senator Jeff Flake.