The Last Push: Hollywood And Media Figures Phone Bank, Take To The Trail And Post Videos In 2024 Campaign’s Final Hours
Hollywood figures are making a final push in the 2024 presidential election campaign, while Kamala Harris and Donald Trump plan to fill their final rallies this evening with some celebrity guests.
A massive phone bank, being billed as the “largest phone bank ever,” is being organized for Harris on Tuesday by Jamie Patricof and Rep. Eric Swalwell. Among those participating are Kerry Washington, Ben Stiller, Jessica Alba, John Legend, Kelly Rowland, Joel McHale, Mark Cuban, Bradley Whitford, Tony Goldwyn, Mark Ruffalo, Uzo Aduba, Bellamy Young, Ken Jeong, Sophia Bush, Mark Feuerstein, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Chris Messina, Doc Rivers, Max Greenfield and Billy Ray.
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Some celebrities are making late-in-the-campaign endorsement videos, including Richard Gere, who posted a Harris endorsement aimed at voters in Pennsylvania. Gere noted that he was born in Philadelphia, and his parents were born and raised in Brooklyn, PA. He said of Harris and her running mate Tim Walz, “They’re good for America, and they’re good for us.”
Members of the cast of The West Wing, including Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff, appeared in a video for The Lincoln Project, the group of never Trump Republicans.
Robert De Niro campaigned for Harris at a Philadelphia Eagles tailgate on Sunday, while Martin Sheen got a crowd to sing America the Beautiful in unison as they waited in line for a Michelle Obama-Alicia Keys rally on Saturday. Viola Davis narrated a Harris campaign video focusing on the vice president’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan.
On the trail for Harris today are Bush, campaigning in Tempe, AZ; La Original Banda El Limón in Phoenix; 2 Chainz, F.L.Y., Joy of Jesse & Joy, Keyshia Cole, KP The Great, Morehouse House of Funk Marching Band, Pastor Troy and Tamar Braxton in Atlanta; Leslie Odom Jr. in Lansing and Grand Rapids, MI; Christina Aguilera, Los Tigres Del Norte, and SOFI TUKKER at a Las Vegas concert; Dulé Hill and Rosario Dawson at a Las Vegas canvassing event; Sugarland, Remi Wolf and James Taylor at a Raleigh, NC concert; and De Niro and Sam Waterston at a Harrisburg, PA rally.
In Philadelphia, Julia Louis-Dreyfus spoke at a campaign event at the National Constitution Center, saying that Harris is “young and optimistic, smart as a whip and she brings joy back to politics because she cares about our fellow citizens. The other guy is a vulgar firehose of chaos.”
On the other side of the aisle, Donald Trump plans to appear at a Pittsburgh rally tonight with Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News anchor-turned-podcast host, who had sparred with him at his first presidential primary debate in 2015. “I will proudly explain to that audience and beyond why I think it’s absolutely essential that he win this election,” Kelly said.
Trump plans to finish out his campaign with a rally in Grand Rapids, MI this evening.
Harris’ final rallies will be in Pittsburgh and then Philadelphia, where a lineup of celebrities is scheduled to appear. D-Nice, Katy Perry and Andra Day will perform in Pittsburgh; DJ Cassidy, Fat Joe, Freeway and Just Blaze, Lady Gaga, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Ricky Martin, The Roots, Jazmine Sullivan and Adam Blackstone, and Oprah Winfrey are scheduled at the Philadelphia finale.
Walz is appearing at an event in Milwaukee with a musical performance by Eric Benét, and later in Detroit where he will be joined by the Detroit Youth Choir Jon Bon Jovi and The War and Treaty.
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