With three days till the presidential election, Harrison Ford is getting out the vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
On Saturday, the Academy Award nominee introduced his endorsement for the Democratic nominee and her operating mate in two heartfelt video statements explaining why others ought to vote for the vice chairman as nicely.
“I’m Harrison Ford, doing one thing I by no means thought I’d do: telling folks I’ve by no means met who I’m voting for and why I believe they could do the identical,” he mentioned in a video for Rolling Stone. “This election, I’m casting my poll for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Do I agree with each considered one of their insurance policies? After all not. Do I believe they’re excellent? Come on, for crying out loud, they’re folks identical to you and me.
“However these two folks imagine within the rule of regulation. They imagine in science. They imagine that whenever you govern, you accomplish that for all Individuals. They imagine that we’re on this collectively. These are concepts I imagine in. These are folks I can get behind. Look, I’m pissed off about lots of issues on this nation. I’m certain you might be too. However the different man, he spent 4 years turning us towards one another whereas embracing dictators and tyrants world wide. That’s not who we’re. We don’t must ‘make America nice once more.’ Come on, we’re nice. What we’d like is to work collectively once more. What we’d like is a president who works for all of us once more,” added Ford.
In a second video, Ford known as consideration to Trump’s former workers that has since come out towards him. “When dozens of former members of the Trump administration are sounding alarms, saying, ‘For God’s sake, don’t do that once more’ — it’s a must to concentrate. They’re telling us one thing necessary,” he mentioned.
Noting that lots of them are voting towards the Republican celebration for the primary time “as a result of they know this actually issues,” Ford added: “Kamala Harris will defend your proper to disagree along with her about insurance policies or concepts. After which, as we’ve got completed for hundreds of years, we’ll debate them, we’ll work on them collectively, and we’ll transfer ahead. The opposite man, he calls for unquestioning loyalty, says he needs revenge. I’m Harrison Ford. I’ve acquired one vote, identical as anybody else, and I’m going to make use of it to maneuver ahead. I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris.”
The Shrinking star’s endorsement comes as Harris makes one closing push for undecided voters, concluding her historic $370 million paid media marketing campaign with ‘Brighter Future‘, an advert operating throughout CBS and Fox in the course of the 1pm ET slate of NFL video games on Saturday.
Ford beforehand endorsed Joe Biden throughout his 2020 marketing campaign towards Trump.
