Paul Rudd Hands Out Water to Voters Waiting in Line in Pennsylvania
Paul Rudd made a surprise visit to voters waiting in long lines on Election Day.
During an MSNBC broadcast on Tuesday, the actor was spotted by NBC News political and national correspondent Jacob Soboroff handing out water bottles to voters waiting in long lines at Temple University in Pennsylvania.
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“I just wanted to give people water,” Rudd said. “They’re waiting in line for a long time, and it’s a wonderful thing that all these young people are out voting.”
After Soboroff noted that the voters had been waiting for two hours, Rudd praised them and said it was “impressive.”
“When you heard that, did you say, right away, ‘I’ve got to come out here. I’ve got to get to this line’? Soboroff asked the actor, to which Rudd responded, “We’ve been doing lots of stuff today here in Pennsylvania. We wanted to come out and tell these students they’re doing really great things.”
When Soboroff asked Rudd how he felt about the election, Rudd laughed and said, “I feel good about handing out some waters.”
Following the surprise spotting, Soboroff later quipped on X that he “did not have saying the words ‘Paul Rudd just showed up’ on my @msnbc bingo card tonight.”
In addition to Rudd, other celebrities are reportedly Facetiming into other voter lines across the country, including Jennifer Garner at Villanova University, Josh Gad at Lehigh University, Mark Cuban at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Demi Lovato at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
This also wasn’t the first time Rudd has made a surprise visit to voters. In 2020, the Ant-Man star approached voters in line at the Barclays Center in New York to give them some cookies while thanking them for taking the time to vote. At the time, voters had to wait in line while it poured rain outside.
“Hey, look at us, who would’ve thought.. we’d be enjoying cookies with Paul Rudd after voting in BK,” the official X account of the Barclays Center wrote in 2020 while sharing photos of Rudd with voters.
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