The Zoom fundraiser for Vice President Harris, attended by Jeff Bridges, Mark Hamill and Pete Buttigieg among others, raised over $4 million, organizers said.
Vice President Harris delivers a keynote speech at the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th national convention in Houston on Thursday.
The more than three-hour-long online call saw actors Mark Hamill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sean Astin and Josh Gad among the men expressing support for Vice President Harris’sMost notable among the celebrities was a man introduced as the “dude in chief,” actor Jeff Bridges, who played The Dude in “The Big Lebowski,” released in 1998, and joked: “I qualify … I’m White, I’m a dude and I’m for Harris.”
“That’s going to stop tonight, because we know that the silent majority of White men aren’t actually MAGA supporters. They’re folks like you who just want a better life for their families.”ultimately won by assembling a large enough coalition of voters in key states, winning margins among young and non-White voters, college graduates and independents.During Monday’s call, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg framed Harris’s campaign as one for “freedom.
During his speech, Bridges paid homage to Black Women for Harris for inspiring a wave of copycat fundraising calls. “Kamala is so certainly our girl … a woman president, man, so exciting! And her championing of women’s rights, I’m for that, and for all her stance on the environment.”
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