Hollywood is filled with Harris endorsements this fall. From Taylor Swift to George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen to Oprah Winfrey, the boldfaced names declaring their assist for presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her working mate, Tim Walz, have packed stadiums and film theaters throughout the globe, and now have turned their platforms towards guaranteeing Democratic victory subsequent month.
“Vote like your life is dependent upon it as a result of it does,” Billie Eilish instructed her followers just lately. Many like her — together with Taylor Swift — have additionally included voter registration pushes with their endorsements of Harris, resulting in lots of of 1000’s extra guests at websites like Vote.gov.
Others have additionally spoken out instantly in opposition to former President Trump and his working mate, J.D. Vance, with Springsteen calling the Republican nominee “essentially the most harmful candidate for president in my lifetime.” (See who’s supporting Trump.)
Under, right here’s a listing of the most important Hollywood names to have thrown their assist behind the Harris-Walz ticket.
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Taylor Swift
Picture Credit score: Kate Inexperienced/Getty Photos Swift’s was the endorsement heard around the world. After months of hypothesis, the celebrity singer posted a prolonged assertion supporting Harris shortly after the conclusion of Harris’ debate with Trump.
“I’m voting for @kamalaharris as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I imagine want a warrior to champion them,” Swift wrote. “I used to be so heartened and impressed by her collection of working mate @timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF and a girl’s proper to her personal physique for many years.”
Swift signed her endorsement as a “childless cat woman,” a jab at J.D. Vance’s feedback earlier this yr. The put up reached 283 million of the singer’s followers, and subsequently led to 337,826 individuals visiting Vote.gov registration websites in a single day.
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George Clooney
Clooney was one in all Hollywood’s first celebrities to endorse Harris, after additionally calling for Biden to step down from the race in a controversial essay in The New York Occasions.
“We’re not going to win in November with this president,” Clooney wrote of Biden. “On prime of that, we received’t win the Home, and we’re going to lose the Senate.”
When the president introduced his official withdrawal from the race in July, the actor instructed CNN that “President Biden has proven what true management is. He’s saving democracy as soon as once more.” He added, “We’re all so excited to do no matter we are able to to assist Vice President Harris in her historic quest.”
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Barbra Streisand
Picture Credit score: Kevin Mazur/Getty Photos for BSB Streisand additionally supplied early assist of Harris, endorsing the nominee the identical day that Biden introduced he would finish his bid for the White Home.
“Joe Biden will go down in historical past as a person who achieved important achievements in his 4 yr time period. We must always be glad about his upholding of our democracy,” the beloved singer wrote on social media, including later that Harris “will work to revive ladies’s reproductive freedom and proceed with the accomplishments begun within the Biden-Harris administration.”
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Jamie Lee Curtis
Picture Credit score: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Curtis posted her glowing endorsement of Harris after Biden stepped apart, calling her a “trusted and examined” chief who’s “a fierce advocate for ladies’s rights and other people of coloration.” She has since continued to share voting info on social media within the lead-up to November.
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Megan Thee Stallion
Picture Credit score: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic Megan Thee Stallion carried out at an early Atlanta rally for the presidential nominee, the place Quavo, Stacey Abrams and Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock additionally spoke.
“Make some noise for Ms. Harris, our future president,” the Grammy winner mentioned to a packed home. Simply earlier than performing “Physique” later that night time, she instructed the gang, “I do know my girls within the crowd love their physique. And if you wish to maintain loving your physique, you realize who to vote for.”
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Charli XCX
Picture Credit score: Photograph by Emma McIntyre/Getty Photos Regardless of being a Brit who can’t vote in U.S. elections, brat celebrity Charli XCX’s “kamala IS brat” tweet helped the Harris marketing campaign discover its footing among the many memes early after its launch. Harris’ “brat” standing went on to be mentioned on CNN and Fox Information — even Invoice Maher weighed in.
“To be on the suitable facet of democracy, the suitable facet of girls’s rights, is massively essential to me,” Charli later mentioned about her assist of Harris. “I’m blissful to assist to forestall democracy from failing perpetually.”
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Kerry Washington
Picture Credit score: Amy Sussman/Getty Photos Kerry Washington hosted the fourth and ultimate night time of July’s Democratic Nationwide Conference, at one level reuniting together with her Scandal co-star Tony Goldwyn, who hosted night time one.
“Look, I do know that I’m the one standing on this stage, however I’m not the lead character on this story,” Washington, well-known for her portrayal of Olivia Pope, instructed her Chicago viewers. “I’m right here as a mom, as a daughter, as a proud union member. I’m right here because the granddaughter of immigrants, as a Black girl descended from enslaved individuals. I’m right here tonight as a result of I’m an American and since I’m a voter, and since we the persons are stronger when all our voices are heard.”
She later instructed the viewers, “You’re the messengers. You’re the fixers. Dare I say, you’re the Olivia Pope.”
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Finneas and Billie Eilish
Picture Credit score: Arturo Holmes/Getty Photos The brother-sister duo endorsed Harris in a video posted to social media on Nationwide Voter Registration Day earlier this month, citing Harris’ assist of “our reproductive freedom, our planet and our democracy.”
“We will’t let extremists management our lives and our freedoms and our future,” Finneas mentioned. His sister added, “Vote like your life is dependent upon it as a result of it does.”
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Oprah Winfrey
Picture Credit score: Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photograph by MANDEL NGAN/AFP by way of Getty Photos Winfrey endorsed Harris on the Democratic Nationwide Conference, the place she stunned company together with her look and instructed them, “Decency and respect are on the poll in 2024.”
“Quickly, very quickly, we’re going to be educating our daughters and our sons about how this youngster of an Indian mom and a Jamaican father — two idealistic, energetic immigrants — how this youngster grew as much as grow to be the forty seventh president of the US,” Winfrey instructed the gang to rising applause.
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Beyoncé
Picture Credit score: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photos for iHeartRadio Queen Bey supplied her quiet assist of Harris by permitting the marketing campaign to make use of her track “Freedom” throughout the Democratic nominee’s first official go to to her marketing campaign headquarters on July 22. Harris’ marketing campaign then used the track in its first advert. Representatives for the singer confirmed she had given permission for each cases.
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Omarosa Manigault Newman
Picture Credit score: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Photos Newman was a very notable Hollywood endorsement due to her former work with the Trump administration. The actress first made a reputation for herself as one of many former president’s favourite contestants on The Apprentice‘s first season in 2004 (she additionally returned twice for The Superstar Apprentice).
Earlier than her time on actuality TV and underneath Trump’s eye, Newman labored for the Clinton administration, after which returned to Washington because the director of communications for the Workplace of Public Liaison underneath Trump in 2017. Her 2018 memoir subsequently attacked Trump, and she or he instructed Selection in October that she was “one hundred pc endorsing Kamala Harris for president.”
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Geraldo Rivera
Picture Credit score: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos for The Hollywood Reporter Rivera, a former Fox Information host, known as Trump a “sore loser” in his endorsement of Harris, which made waves throughout conservative and liberal media communities alike.
“If you’re a Republican, Donald Trump has made a liar of you,” Rivera wrote in a prolonged assertion. “He has coaxed and intimidated tens of thousands and thousands into pretending he was reelected in 2020, and that the election was stolen.”
The endorsement concluded: “Former President Donald Trump is a sore loser who can’t be trusted to honor the structure. That’s the reason I’m voting for Kamala Harris to be our forty seventh President.”
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Michael Keaton
Picture Credit score: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photos Keaton, an outspoken supporter of Harris, mentioned in a video posted to social media on Oct. 23 that Elon Musk and Donald Trump “don’t actually respect you. They snigger at you behind your again; they assume you’re silly. They don’t need to hang around with you. They don’t have anything in frequent with you — they’re not your bros.”
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Eminem
Picture Credit score: Michael Buckner/Selection/Penske Media/Getty Photos Eminem — a longtime critic of Trump — appeared at a Detroit rally for Harris on Oct. 22, the place he spoke in regards to the Democratic nominee earlier than introducing Barack Obama.
“As most of you realize, town of Detroit and the entire state of Michigan imply so much to me,” the Detroit rapper instructed the gang. “And going into this election, the highlight is on us greater than ever… And I believe it’s essential to make use of your voice. So I’m encouraging all people to get out and vote.”
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Insane Clown Posse
Picture Credit score: Roy Rochlin/Getty Photos for MTV Insane Clown Posse‘s frontman Violent J seemingly endorsed Harris throughout a parody section on The Day by day Present, the place he mentioned “I would like her to win as a result of she’s a Democrat and I really like my mother.”
Violent J, actual identify Joseph Frank Bruce, is maybe essentially the most influential determine in the neighborhood of Juggalos — the loosely related followers of rap-rock group ICP and the opposite bands on their file label, Psychopathic Data and acts within the horrorcore style.
In his interview with The Day by day Present‘s Troy Awata, Bruce added that he despises Trump’s border wall, and likewise mentioned he supported ladies’s rights. “They’ve the suitable to be the shit!” he quipped.
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Andy Cohen
Picture Credit score: Ohad Kad Cohen endorsed Harris in a social media put up on Oct. 23, citing reproductive rights, gun management, the Supreme Court docket and minimal wage will increase.
“I imagine ladies ought to have jurisdiction over their our bodies,” the Bravo producer wrote. “As a homosexual American dad who had children by way of IVF, the Supreme Court docket is on the poll and I don’t need it stuffed with (extra) proper wing extremists who will take away my rights. I imagine in wise gun management. I imagine in constructing the center class, and elevating the minimal wage. She is mentally match to function Commander in Chief and never too previous for the job. America ought to by no means cozy as much as dictators. She will probably be a President for all Individuals. I imagine January 6 was one of many darkest days in our historical past, the results of a weak man’s fragile ego. I don’t need to return!”
He completed his put up by encouraging followers to register to vote.
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Sarah Jessica Parker
Picture Credit score: Cindy Ord/Getty Photos Sarah Jessica Parker endorsed Harris with an extended checklist of causes on social media, together with: “For the love of my nation, for our public faculties, for books, for frequent sense gun legal guidelines, for a residing wage, for alternative, for ladies, for voting rights, for the Dreamers, for arts and tradition, for my mom and senior residents, for our navy, previous and at the moment serving, for the local weather, for hope, for associates and family members within the LGBTQ+ group, for freedom, for science, for reasonably priced healthcare, for our union members, for democracy, for my daughters, for my son, for all of our youngsters, for equality, for dignity, for hope, for the structure, for me, for love, for selection and for a sure childless cat woman I play on TV.”
SJP signed her message, “with an abundance of pleasure, optimism and pleasure.”
