Arnold Schwarzenegger Endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz: “I Will Always Be an American Before I Am a Republican”
Arnold Schwarzenegger is throwing his support behind Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in next week’s presidential election.
The famously Republican former governor of California took to X on Wednesday morning to share a lengthy post about who he’s supporting in the high-stakes election.
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Schwarzenegger began by explaining that he “hates” politics and doesn’t typically make the decision to endorse anyone in elections. He noted that he doesn’t really like either party right now and that while he’d like to tune out, he can’t right now.
“Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets,” he said of Donald Trump’s refusal to admit that he lost the 2020 election. “To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America [a] trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.”
He continued, “I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.”
The actor went on to write that for decades, there have been conversations around the national debt, immigration reform to secure the border while fixing “our broken immigration system” and more, all while the powers that be do nothing about it. The problems continue, he said, and people are only getting angrier because the only ones benefiting are politicians who prefer “having talking points” for elections than doing “the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.”
“It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed,” Schwarzenegger wrote. “But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea – that won’t solve our problems.”
He continued, bashing Trump and noting that if he were to be elected again, “it will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that.”
The Terminator star stressed that another Trump presidency would see the convicted felon find new ways to be even more “un-American” than he already has been, which is why he chose to share his vote publicly.
“I want to move forward as a country,” he said, “and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.”
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