Former Republican governor of California from 2003 to 2011, and famed bodybuilder-turned-actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger just did something he rarely does these days.
Talk politics.
And you won’t believe what he said about who he’s endorsing for president less than a week before the election.
Schwarzenegger said he was putting country before politics and endorsing Kamala Harris in next Tuesday’s election.
It’s just the second time he’s ever made a public endorsement for president.
In 2016, he endorsed former Ohio Gov. John Kasich in that year’s Republican presidential primaries.
“Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime,” Schwarzenegger wrote in a lengthy post on X.
https://twiiter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1851627802027758005
Despite him saying he doesn’t like to dive into politics much these days, it didn’t stop Schwarzenegger went on to rail about politicians failing to pass “comprehensive immigration reform” and calling for the country to “turn the page” on Trump, who he says “won’t respect your vote unless it is for him” and “will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke.”
“Rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets,” he wrote.
“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…, 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,” wrote Schwarzenegger, known for his role in several “Terminator” franchise movies, among others.
“It will just be four more years of bulls— with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful,” he wrote before throwing his support behind the Harris-Walz ticket, without outlining any of their campaign policies he supports.