Actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that in the White House elections he will vote for the current vice president and Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, ahead of former president Donald Trump, despite the fact that he is running as a candidate for the party that elected him governor in 2003.
“I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris and (her vice presidential candidate) Tim Walz,” Schwarzenegger said in a post on his social networks, where despite everything he acknowledges his weariness and disenchantment with current American politics.
In his analysis of the current political situation in the country, Schwarzenegger has defined Trump as a candidate who will not respect the vote of the citizens and “will send his followers to storm the Capitol,” and who has not approved “any policy” beyond a tax cut from which, he admits, he benefited.
That is why the Austrian-born actor has warned that, if former President Trump wins, “it will be four more years of nonsense without results that will make us increasingly angry, divide us more and make us hate more.” “We have to close the door on this chapter of American history,” he said.
Thus, despite his “many disagreements” with the Democrats, he believes that “the only way” to move forward and overcome the divisions created during the Trump era is by voting for Harris and Walz. “Vote this week. Turn the page and leave this garbage behind,” Schwarzenegger added.
In justifying his vote for Harris, Schwarzenegger stressed that he does not like “either party” and accused the Republicans of forgetting “the beauty of the free market”, of having “shot up the deficit” and of having rejected the election results, in reference to what happened in 2020.
“Democrats are no better at dealing with deficits, and I am concerned that their local policies will harm our cities with increased crime. It is probably no surprise that I hate politics more than ever (…) I want to disconnect. But I can’t,” said Schwarzenegger, who calls for action in the face of how “anti-American” Republican behavior has been in recent times.
Schwarzenegger, known for his role as an actor and also as a symbol of bodybuilding in the 70s and 80s, won as a Republican candidate for the California gubernatorial elections in 2003, and three years later he repeated his triumph. He is the only Republican governor of California this century.
The population of the United States is called to the polls next Tuesday to vote in the elections for the White House in which the current vice president Harris is running as a Democratic candidate, against former president Trump, who with the support of the Republican Party hopes to return to power four years after falling to Joe Biden.
