This November, celebrities have voiced their support for the Democratic ticket. These are 11 of the most well-known names.
This fall, Harris endorsements are all over Hollywood. The prominent figures who have crowded stadiums and movie theaters around the world to support presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, including Taylor Swift, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen, and Oprah Winfrey, have now shifted their platforms to guarantee a Democratic victory next month.
Billie Eilish recently urged her fans to vote as if their lives depended on it, because they do. With their support of Harris, many like her, like Taylor Swift, have also pushed for voter registration, which has increased traffic to websites like Vote.gov by hundreds of thousands.
Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, have also been openly criticized by others. Springsteen, for example, referred to the Republican nominee as “the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime.” (Look who is rooting for Trump.)
A list of the most well-known Hollywood figures who have endorsed the Harris-Walz ticket may be found below.
Taylor Swift
Swift’s was the globally recognized endorsement. Shortly after Harris’ discussion with Trump ended, the famous singer, following months of anticipation, made a lengthy statement in favor of Harris.
Swift added, “She fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them, so I’m voting for @kamalaharris.” “Her choice of running mate @timwalz, who has been advocating for IVF, LGBTQ+ rights, and a woman’s right to her own body for decades, really inspired and impressed me.”
Swift made fun of J.D. Vance’s remarks earlier this year by signing her endorsement as a “childless cat lady.” After the message reached 283 million of the singer’s followers, 337,826 people spent the night at Vote.gov registration sites.
George Clooney
After urging Biden to withdraw from the race in a contentious editorial published in The New York Times, Clooney was among the first celebrities in Hollywood to support Harris.
Clooney stated, “With this president, we are not going to win in November.” “In addition to that, we will lose the Senate and not the House.”
The actor told CNN that “President Biden has shown what true leadership is” when the president formally declared his retirement from the race in July. Once more, he is preserving democracy. “We’re all very eager to help Vice President Harris in her historic endeavor,” he continued.
Barbra Streisand
Additionally, Streisand endorsed Harris ahead of time, doing so on the same day that Biden declared he would withdraw from the White House race.
“Joe Biden will be remembered as a man who achieved great things throughout his four-year administration. The well-known musician posted on social media, “We should be grateful for his upholding of our democracy,” and later added that Harris “will work to restore women’s reproductive freedom and continue with the accomplishments begun in the Biden-Harris administration.”
Jamie Lee Curtis
After Biden resigned, Curtis wrote a laudatory essay praising Harris, describing her as a “trusted and tested” leader who is “a ferocious advocate for women’s rights and people of color.” Since then, she has kept posting voting-related content on social media in the run-up to November.
Megan Thee Stallion
Quavo, Stacey Abrams, Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, and Megan Thee Stallion performed at an early gathering for the presidential nominee in Atlanta.
The Grammy winner addressed a crowded gathering, saying, “Make some noise for Ms. Harris, our future president.” She addressed the audience, “I know my ladies in the crowd love their body,” right before she performed “Body” later that evening. And you know who to vote for if you want to continue to love your body.
Charli XCX
The Harris campaign was able to establish itself among the memes shortly after its launch because to brat celebrity Charli XCX’s “kamala IS brat” tweet, even though she is a Brit and cannot vote in U.S. elections. Bill Maher even chimed in on the discussion of Harris’ “brat” status on CNN and Fox News.
Regarding her backing of Harris, Charli subsequently stated, “It is very important to me to be on the right side of democracy, the right side of women’s rights.” “I’m glad to contribute to keeping democracy from irreversibly failing.”
Kerry Washington
The fourth and last night of the Democratic National Convention in July was hosted by Kerry Washington, who briefly reunited with her Scandal co-star Tony Goldwyn, who hosted the first night.
Washington, who is well-known for playing Olivia Pope, told her Chicago audience, “Look, I know that I am the one standing on this stage, but I am not the main character in this story.” “As a proud union member, a mother, and a daughter, I am here. As a Black woman descended from slaves, I am here as the grandchild of immigrants. Being an American and a voter, I am here tonight because I believe that when all of our voices are heard, we as a people are stronger.
“You are the messengers,” she subsequently said to the crowd. The fixers are you. You are the Olivia Pope, if I may say so.
Finneas and Billie Eilish
In a video shared on social media on National Voter Registration Day earlier this month, the brother-sister team praised Harris, saying that he supported “our reproductive freedom, our planet, and our democracy.”
Finneas declared, “We cannot allow extremists to dictate our lives, our liberties, and our future.” “Vote like your life depends on it because it does,” his sister continued.
Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey startled attendees by showing up at the Democratic National Convention to endorse Harris, telling them that “decency and respect are on the ballot in 2024.”
To increasing applause, Winfrey said, “We’re going to be teaching our daughters and our sons very soon about how this child of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father — two idealistic, energetic immigrants — how this child grew up to become the 47th president of the United States.”
Beyoncé
On July 22, during the Democratic nominee’s first official visit to her campaign headquarters, Queen Bey quietly endorsed Harris by letting the campaign utilize her song “Freedom.” The song was then featured in the first advertisement for Harris’ campaign. The singer’s representatives attested that she had granted consent in both cases. Then, on October 25, Beyoncé appeared alongside her mother Tina Knowles and her old bandmate from Destiny’s Child, Kelly Rowland, at a rally in Houston, where she formally endorsed Harris.
Omarosa Manigault Newman
Newman’s prior work with the Trump administration made her a particularly noteworthy Hollywood endorser. The actress initially gained notoriety as one of the former president’s preferred competitors on the inaugural season of The Apprentice in 2004 (she subsequently had two appearances on The Celebrity Apprentice).
Newman served in the Clinton administration prior to her time on reality TV and in the spotlight of Trump. In 2017, she returned to Washington to serve as the director of communications for Trump’s Office of Public Liaison. After criticizing Trump in her 2018 memoir, she declared in an October interview with Variety that she was “100 percent endorsing Kamala Harris for president.”
Geraldo Rivera
When former Fox News personality Rivera referred to Trump as a “sore loser” for endorsing Harris, it caused a stir in both the left and conservative media sectors.
Rivera stated in a lengthy statement, “Donald Trump has made a liar of you if you are a Republican.” Tens of millions of people have been tricked and intimidated by him into believing that he was reelected in 2020 and that the election was rigged.
“Former President Donald Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the constitution,” the endorsement’s conclusion read. I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th president because of this.
Andy Cohen
In a social media post on October 23, Cohen praised Harris, citing the Supreme Court, gun control, reproductive rights, and minimum wage increases.
The Bravo producer tweeted, “I think women should have jurisdiction over their bodies.” “The Supreme Court is on the ballot, and as a gay American father of children born via IVF, I don’t want it to be populated with (more) right-wing fanatics who would deny me my rights. I support reasonable gun restrictions. I support increasing the minimum wage and creating a middle class. She is not too elderly for the position and has the mental capacity to be Commander in Chief. America should never support autocrats. For all Americans, she will serve as president. Because of a weak man’s brittle ego, I think January 6 was one of the saddest days in our history. I have no desire to return!
He urged his followers to register to vote as he concluded his tweet.
Leonardo DiCaprio
On October 25, veteran climate campaigner Leonardo DiCaprio gave Harris his support.
In an Instagram video, he declared, “Climate change is killing the earth and ruining our economy. We need to take a bold step forward to save our economy, our planet, and ourselves.” “I’m voting for Kamala Harris because of this.”
He said in his caption that these natural disasters demonstrate “the continued threat of unnatural disasters caused by climate change,” citing “the devastation that our country recently experienced from Hurricanes Helene and Milton.”
