Disgraced top pollster responds after setting off media firestorm with Iowa poll
Pollster J. Ann Selzer is “reviewing her data” to determine why her pre-election poll, which set off a multi-day media firestorm, inaccurately showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa.
Selzer is “reviewing her data to determine why a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll released just days before the election produced results so far out of line with former President Donald Trump’s resounding victory,” according to the Des Moines Register.
The shock poll showed a 7-point shift from President-elect Donald Trump to Harris from September, when he had a 4-point lead over the vice president (47% to 43%) in the same survey. The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll released Saturday had Harris up 47% to 44 %, in a state Trump had carried easily in 2016 and 2020 and wasn’t considered a swing state in 2024.
Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., who conducted the poll, declared Harris had clearly “leaped into a leading position” ahead of Election Day.
Much of the media took her words as gospel, as pundits on MSNBC, CNN and ABC’s “The View” all celebrated the forecast. Even if it didn’t necessarily mean Harris would win Iowa given the polling average, a narrative spread that it could incidate a broader shift in the Midwest to Harris in more competitive states.
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“If this is accurate, and if anybody is accurate, it’s likely to be Ann Selzer in the Iowa poll, if this is accurate it implies that Harris might be winning Iowa,” Rachel Maddow gushed.
“The View” panelists declared Selzer “always right,” and her track record was billed as “incredibly solid” on CNN.
Selzer had egg on her face when the Fox News Decision Desk called Iowa for Trump on Tuesday night with the former president holding a commanding lead.
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Trump supporters were quick to point out Selzer’s poll was wildly inaccurate.
“Congratulations to Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance on their victory,” Deputy Political Director Alex Latcham said in a statement. “After four years under Kamala Harris, Hawkeye state voters are eager for President Trump to fix what Kamala Harris broke. Starting on Day 1, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance will help to ease costs, secure the border, and protect Social Security for retirees like Ann Selzer.”
“Enjoy retirement…,” Trump co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita posted on X along with a screenshot of an article calling Selzer “the best pollster in politics.”
Selzer was forced to address the humiliating poll.
“Tonight, I’m of course thinking about how we got where we are,” Selzer said in a statement.
“The poll findings we produced for The Des Moines Register and Mediacom did not match what the Iowa electorate ultimately decided in the voting booth today,” she continued. “I’ll be reviewing data from multiple sources with hopes of learning why that happened. And, I welcome what that process might teach me.”
Many others took to X with thoughts on Selzer’s poll:
Shawn Carney, founder of 40 Days for Life, said the Iowa poll results show the consequences of an arrogant assumption that women are single-issue voters whose only concern is access to abortion.
“The media ran with this narrative because it’s what they wanted to believe was true,” Carney said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “It just shows how out of touch they are with what actually matters to Americans. For way too long, they’ve acted as a mouthpiece for the political elite, pushing stories that fit the agenda of those in power instead of reflecting the real concerns of everyday people. They tried to make abortion the only issue that women care about, despite clear signs that Americans are focused on things like economic stability, safety, and family. Last night’s results sent a strong message: Americans are rejecting the agenda the media tried to sell them.”
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Experts blast ‘disastrous’ election decision as reason Harris campaign fell apart
Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential bid has political strategists second guessing many of her campaign choices, including her selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
“The choice of Walz was only one of many disastrous mistakes but symptomatic of one larger problem – the Democratic Party leadership is too scared to say no to the hard left progressive wing of the party,” Julian Epstein, longtime Democratic operative and former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital.
“This hard left opposes commonsense solutions that Gov Shapiro supports – charter schools for example. Or defeating terrorists rather than aping their talking points and positions, which allow them to stay in power and rearm for the next genocidal attack,” Epstein continued. “It’s the hard left progressive wing that looks first to welfare and redistribution rather than economic growth, and to cultural extremism on migration and gender deeply out of touch with the American electorate. Walz was a really bad choice for sure, but their choice was part of a deeper problem.”
Rob Bluey, president and executive editor of The Daily Signal, told Fox News Digital that Walz being added to the ticket was a significant error in judgment.
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“Historically, vice presidents have little impact on a presidential candidate’s fate,” Bluey said. “But in the case of Tim Walz, it proved to be a disastrous decision that doomed Kamala Harris from the moment she made it. Not only was Walz ill-prepared for the national spotlight and media scrutiny, but Harris passed over several better options. Given how little Americans knew about Harris or her policy positions, they were right to question her judgment on this big decision.”
Harris faced scrutiny even from some in her own party over her decision to name Walz, who many view as further to the left than she is, rather than a more moderate choice. Prominent Democrat Josh Shapiro, governor of the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania that Trump carried on Tuesday night, was viewed by some as a more practical choice.
“One of the things that are top of mind is the choice of Tim Walz as vice presidential candidate,” Harris-Walz surrogate Lindy Li told Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich at Howard University. “A lot of people are saying tonight that it should have been Josh Shapiro. Frankly, people have been saying that for months.”
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“I know a lot of people are probably wondering tonight what would have happened had Shapiro been on the ticket,” Li continued. “And not only in terms of Pennsylvania. He’s famously a moderate. So that would have signaled to the American people that she is not the San Francisco liberal that Trump said she was.”
Walz was heavily criticized on the campaign trail over questions about his honesty regarding his military service, ties to China, response to the George Floyd riots in 2020, and policy agenda as governor that several Minnesotans who spoke to Fox News Digital described as radical.
Firehouse Strategies founding partner Alex Conant told Fox News Digital that while Walz did not help the ticket, the problems were much deeper.
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“Democrats must have a lot of regrets,” Conant said. “Walz didn’t help the ticket, but he’s not why she lost. VP candidates just don’t matter that much.”
“Bigger issues were Trump’s well-run campaign, Biden’s unpopular record, and Harris’ lackluster performance as a candidate – and I’m not sure how she could have changed any of those things.”
Usha Vance set to make history and break barriers as the next second lady
The White House is ushering in a new era with the election of a second Trump presidency with Usha Vance set to become the first Indian American second lady in the White House.
Vance, who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, will also be the first Hindu second lady.
Vice President-elect JD Vance credited his “beautiful wife for making it possible to do this” after the big win.
“THANK YOU! To my beautiful wife for making it possible to do this,” he wrote on X. “To President Donald J. Trump, for giving me such an opportunity to serve our country at this level. And to the American people, for their trust. I will never stop fighting for ALL of you.”
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The attorney has been married to JD since 2014 and they have three children together: sons, Ewan, 6, and Vivek, 4, and a daughter, Mirabel, 2.
Before law school, Vance received a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale and a master’s in philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
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She completed multiple clerkships after her graduation from Yale, according to an Axios report, including for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Vance made headlines during the Republican National Committee in July.
“My background is very different from JD’s. I grew up in San Diego, in a middle-class community, with two loving parents, both immigrants from India, and a wonderful sister,” she said. “That JD and I could meet at all, let alone fall in love and marry, is a testament to this great country.”
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Independent Angus King projected to win re-election to Senate in Maine
Independent Sen. Angus King has won re-election to the U.S. Senate in Maine, The Associated Press declared Thursday.
King, who caucuses with the Democrats, had declared victory over a crowded field on Wednesday, saying he was looking forward to returning to the Senate.
“So, I’m feeling very positive about this. I’ve already heard that this morning from a number of my colleagues, including some Republican colleagues, who are looking forward to working together to try and move forward with a positive agenda for the country,” he told supporters.
King’s closest challenger was Republican Demi Kouzounas, who sat at roughly 34% support on Wednesday.
Republicans are projected to regain the majority in the Senate, while voters in Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania still await race calls in those Senate races.
Vice President Kamala Harris won the statewide race in Maine and its 1st District, winning three electoral votes. President-elect Donald Trump won Maine’s 2nd District, picking up one electoral vote.
Pennsylvania’s Senate race between vulnerable Democratic incumbent Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick is still too early to call.
A Casey campaign spokesperson, Maddy McDaniel, said in a statement Thursday that “the count in Pennsylvania is still continuing.”
“Yesterday, the vote margin shrunk by 50,000 votes and this race is now within half a point, the threshold for automatic recounts in Pennsylvania,” the statement said. “With tens of thousands more votes to be counted, we are committed to ensuring every Pennsylvanian’s vote is heard and confident that at the end of that process, Senator Casey will be re-elected.”
McCormick has a roughly 31,000-vote lead as of the latest count at 10:45 a.m. eastern time, though Casey has been picking up votes to close the gap as outstanding votes continue to be counted.
As of that latest count, McCormick has 3,335,987 votes, or 48.95%, while Casey has 3,304,882 votes, or 48.5%.
Casey, the son of a popular former governor, is running for a fourth six-year term. McCormick, his Republican challenger, is a combat veteran and businessman.
Democratic Incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen has taken the lead over Republican challenger Sam Brown in Nevada’s Senate race Thursday.
No victor has been declared in the race, but Brown had previously been ahead in vote counts since Election Day.
An update to total votes posted late Wednesday night showed Rosen with 644,471 votes, or 47.6% of the total.
Brown now trails with 631,772, or 46.7%, of votes, according to the Associated Press.
EXCLUSIVE: Americans could know the balance of power in the House of Representatives as soon as Thursday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., anticipates.
The top House Republican spoke with Fox News Digital after his party won commanding victories in the White House and Senate on Election Day. The Fox News Decision Desk projected the GOP having a slight edge over Democrats in the House as of Wednesday afternoon.
“I mean, California’s the main state still. You know, in a lot of those close races, our incumbents are leading the way – by small margins, but we knew there would be small margins,” Scalise told Fox News Digital on Wednesday evening.
“We also have some seats that we have a chance to flip that are leaning our way, too. So, you know, we’re watching all of them, and they’re coming down the wire. But I think we’ll know by [Thursday], hopefully.”
“We also have some seats that we have a chance to flip that are leaning our way, too. So, you know, we’re watching all of them, and they’re coming down the wire. But I think we’ll know by [Thursday], hopefully.”
“It appears we’re going to hold the House and flip the Senate,” Scalise said. “You know, it’s going to be a rare opportunity within any government to really focus in January on turning this country around.”
Scalise already signaled part of what that may look like earlier in the day, when he publicly called for the various prosecutions into Trump to end now that he was re-elected president.
He and other Trump allies had long dismissed the criminal probes as a misuse of the federal government, despite some of them leading to grand jury indictments and criminal convictions.
Asked if a Republican-led Washington would look to reform the justice system to make such perceived attacks harder, Scalise said, “There needs to be reform.”
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The federal agency responsible for registering Americans for a military draft if the need arises reposted a message suggesting that the U.S. is becoming 1936 Nazi Germany, reports say.
The post shared by the Selective Service System on its X account Wednesday said, “For all you stupid f—s out there that still believe military service will be voluntary. Remember Germany 1936,” according to the New York Post. A CBS News reporter also flagged the repost, writing on X, “What’s going on with the @SSS_gov (Selective Service) X account?”
For more than an hour, the repost remained on the agency’s account, according to the newspaper, before it apparently was taken down. The Selective Service System did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
The message comes as Democrats and opponents of Donald Trump in recent weeks have tried to cast the president-elect as the second coming of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
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Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel discussed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s potential plan to reform the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and crack down on ultra-processed foods during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”
“It sounds like [Kennedy] focusing mainly, at least to begin with, on the food part of FDA … with food it’s a mess,” Siegel said. “I’m talking about 75% of the stuff in supermarkets is ultra processed foods.”
Seigel said that ultra processed foods have been “so chemicalized” that it “doesn’t have any connection to the original food it was.”
“It’s why we have an obesity epidemic in this country; 40% of Americans are obese, which leads to all kinds of diseases,” Siegel said.
Kennedy, a former independent presidential candidate, suggested to MSNBC Wednesday that the second Trump administration could eliminate entire departments within the FDA for “corruption.”
“In some categories, their entire departments, like the nutrition department in the FDA, they have to go,” Kennedy said. “They’re not doing their job. They’re not protecting our kids. Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients, and you go to Canada, and it’s got two or three?”
Catholic voters were the biggest winners in the 2024 election, the head of a pro-life group said.
“The victory is huge for Catholic voters. Trump handily won the Catholic vote,” Shawn Carney, founder of 40 Days For Life, told Fox News Digital.
“I know the Al Smith Dinner gets a lot of attention for that. That certainly wasn’t a wise move for [VP Harris] to not go to that. But I think it’s more than just dressing up in a dress or a tuxedo and going to a fundraiser. We Catholics always get the impression from, frankly, the Biden-Harris administration that they hated Catholics, and they hate religion.
“We see what they’ve tolerated, in some cases, encouraged what’s happened to the Jews. We saw the DOJ target Catholics and target pro-lifers. And you just got that sense that they didn’t like or respect Catholics.”
According to exit polling by Fox News on election night, Catholics across the country swung nine percentage points in Trump’s favor, with Trump winning Catholics by 10 points.
Catholics were evenly split between President Biden and Trump in 2020, with 50% favoring Trump to 49% favoring Biden.
While the Catholic swing exceeded expectations on the national level, the margin of Catholic voters favoring Trump was even larger in some of the most critical swing states.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged President-elect Trump’s victory on Thursday and said the Pentagon will ensure a “calm, orderly” transition toward the new administration.
Austin made the announcement in a letter to all U.S. military members on Thursday.
“Our fellow citizens have elected the next President of the United States. The Department will make a calm, orderly, and professional transition to the incoming Trump administration. As it always has, the U.S. military will stand ready to carry out the policy choices of its next Commander in Chief, and to obey all lawful orders from its civilian chain of command,” Austin wrote.
“The U.S. military will continue, in the words of our Constitution, to ‘provide for the common Defense.’ The U.S. military will also continue to stand apart from the political arena; to stand guard over our republic with principle and professionalism; and to stand together with the valued allies and partners who deepen our security. America’s Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Guardians swear an oath to ‘support and defend the Constitution of the United States’-and that is precisely what you will continue to do,” he added.
Fox News’ Bryan Llenas spoke to Philadelphia Democratic Party Chairman Bob Brady, who blames Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign for not providing them with enough resources and scolded them for “blaming” Biden for the Pennsylvania loss.
“They had no respect, they had no coordination. I never even had a conversation with the lady,” Brady said of Harris campaign chief Jennifer O’Malley Dillon. “They didn’t do the right thing as far as giving us the resources we need, and they want to blame us? And now I understand someone in her camp was blaming [President] Joe Biden? Can you imagine? Blaming Joe Biden for her loss? She lost. He didn’t lose.”
Brady went on to say that his experience with the national Harris campaign is likely similar to the rest of the country.
The Harris campaign lashed out against the comments, saying the organized to knock on roughly 2 million doors in Pennsylvania ahead of Election Day.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has requested that his name be withdrawn from consideration for a post within President-elect Trump’s upcoming administration.
Cotton had been widely seen as a front-runner for a top cabinet position in the next Trump administration, but a source close to the senator told Fox News on Thursday that he asked that his name be pulled from consideration
Cotton has two boys under the age of 10 and wants to remain close to them and not upend their lives. He also feels “confident” about securing the No. 3 position in the new GOP Senate majority, the Republican Conference chair when the election is held next week.
The source said Trump understands Cotton’s decision and knows “he is with him all the way in the Senate.”
Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report
Trump 2024 campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez joined “Fox & Friends First” to discuss President-elect Trump’s plan for day one during the next administration and her reaction to his historic gains with various voting blocs.
Alvarez highlighted Trump’s overperformance in the election across demographics, including women, Latino and Black voters. She also says Trump is already working to flesh out his transition team.
“His day one agenda is going to be unleashing American energy, unleashing American works, securing that border like he did in his first term, and of course as he said, before he enters office he is going to work on brokering peace through strength and restoring our position on the global stage,” Alvarez said.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel fought back tears on Wednesday while discussing President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, which he described as a “terrible night.”
“Let’s be honest, it was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country grow,” Kimmel said, his voice faltering. “For healthcare, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech.”
“It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on social security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth, and democracy and decency. It was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him, and guess what it was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too, you just don’t realize it yet,” he said.
Those who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris tried their best to get their candidate votes, but the vice president came up short.
President-elect Donald Trump has been elected as the 47th president of the United States, becoming the first person to win the election following a loss since former President Grover Cleveland.
However, ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith was not fond of the tactics of some of Harris’ supporters.
“In the end, celebrities, who are worth hundreds of millions, if not billions, who most American citizens feel are incredibly detached from their way of life and their quality of life, were not going to get away and guilt them into doing something different than what their experience says is going on and what they should do about it,” Smith said on a recent edition of his “Stephen A. Smith Show.”
He then played a clip of Oprah Winfrey saying a victory for Trump could mean they would never vote again.
“This is the kind of stuff that alienates an electorate, alienates a voter,” Smith said. “Because the freedom that you tell them you have, you try to confiscate morally by letting them know, you ain’t worth a damn unless you vote the way we say you should vote. Who’s going to go for that in a general election? With an economy rife with inflation, with over 12 million people crossing the border … the value of their dollars dissipating before our very eyes.”
Smith then went against a clip of former first lady Michelle Obama saying Black men voting for Trump was a vote against “us.”
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Fox News’ Brooke Singman brought the latest on President-elect Trump’s potential Cabinet appointees and how Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are weighing in on their prospective positions.
Singman says Ben Carson is being weighed to return once again as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Betsy DeVos could return as Secretary of Education. Mike Pompeo too could return as Defense Secretary.
New faces include North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who could serve as Secretary of the Interior or Energy Secretary. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is in the running for Secretary of State, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr., could serve as Secretary of Agriculture or Health and Human Services.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom shared his remarks on X Wednesday following Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss in the 2024 presidential election.
Newsom expressed that a second Trump presidency is “not the outcome we wanted,” but the “fight for freedom and opportunity endures.”
“.@KamalaHarris set out to fight to defend our fundamental freedoms and build a country that works for everyone. She stood up for working families, decency, and opportunity,” Newsom wrote. “California will seek to work with the incoming president — but let there be no mistake, we intend to stand with states across our nation to defend our Constitution and uphold the rule of law.”
He continued: “Federalism is the cornerstone of our democracy. It’s the United STATES of America.”
Outspoken ESPN host blasts Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama for ‘alienating’ voters
Those who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris tried their best to get their candidate votes, but the vice president came up short.
President-elect Donald Trump has been elected as the 47th president of the United States, becoming the first person to win the election following a loss since former President Grover Cleveland.
However, ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith was not fond of the tactics of some of Harris’ supporters.
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“In the end, celebrities, who are worth hundreds of millions, if not billions, who most American citizens feel are incredibly detached from their way of life and their quality of life, were not going to get away and guilt them into doing something different than what their experience says is going on and what they should do about it,” Smith said on a recent edition of his “Stephen A. Smith Show.”
He then played a clip of Oprah Winfrey saying a victory for Trump could mean they would never vote again.
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“This is the kind of stuff that alienates an electorate, alienates a voter,” Smith said. “Because the freedom that you tell them you have, you try to confiscate morally by letting them know, you ain’t worth a damn unless you vote the way we say you should vote. Who’s going to go for that in a general election? With an economy rife with inflation, with over 12 million people crossing the border … the value of their dollars dissipating before our very eyes.”
Smith then went against a clip of former first lady Michelle Obama saying Black men voting for Trump was a vote against “us.”
“If we don’t agree with you, we’re against you?” Smith questioned. “How do you think the men felt about that? So we have to do what you tell us to do; otherwise, we’re anti-you? You thought that worked? Do y’all know anything about most men? You think that’s going to work?”
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Smith predicted in September that Harris would win, but she fell well short of the 81 million votes President Biden received in 2020.
It is the first time Trump has won the popular vote in his three election cycles.
Hollywood elite who teased leaving US if Trump won are ‘all talk, no walk,’ expert says
In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, many celebrities proudly vocalized their opinions on President-elect Donald Trump.
While some showed support, others, including Sharon Stone, Cher and Barbra Streisand, have expressed their disapproval and even threatened to leave the U.S. if he were to be elected.
“I am certainly considering a house in Italy,” Stone told the Daily Mail in July. “I think that’s an intelligent construct at this time. This is one of the first times in my life that I’ve actually seen anyone running for office on a platform of hate and oppression.”
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In a 2023 interview with the Guardian, Cher said, “I almost got an ulcer the last time. If he gets in, who knows? This time I will leave [the country].”
Streisand told host Stephen Colbert that she wouldn’t be able to “live in this country if he becomes president,” and admitted she’d probably move to England.
Representatives for Cher, Stone and Streisand did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
This idea of celebrities fleeing the country after an election is nothing new, says Doug Eldridge, founder of Achilles PR.
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“Every four years, you hear the same recycled rhetoric from celebrities. It’s become a running joke at this point. It’s ‘all talk, no walk,’” Eldridge told Fox News Digital.
In 2016, celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer, George Lopez and more vowed to pack up their lives and move if Trump was elected president.
“Every four years, you hear the same recycled rhetoric from celebrities. It’s become a running joke at this point. It’s ‘all talk, no walk.'”
At the time of Trump’s first run, Cyrus wrote on Instagram, “My heart is broken into a 100000 pieces…I am moving if [Donald Trump] is my president! I don’t say things I don’t mean!” She later posted an emotional video on X accepting Trump as president and asking him to “treat people with love.”
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Schumer said on BBC’s “Newsnight” that same year, “My act will change because I will need to learn to speak Spanish because I will move to Spain or somewhere. It’s beyond my comprehension if Trump won. It’s just too crazy.”
She later said her remarks were just “said in jest” as she expressed her disappointment with the 2016 election results on Instagram.
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While it’s unclear if Streisand, Cher and Stone actually plan on leaving, Eldridge says their move should have “little to no impact” on their success.
“The impact on the careers and the impact on their fan base are two distinct questions, but the answers are actually overlapping and interrelated,” said Eldridge. “Politically speaking, Hollywood has always been a bastion of liberal ideology, so the standard anti-Republican sentiments we hear every four years will have little to no impact on an actor’s ability to gain future roles.
“On the flip side, however, talent is only 50% of an actor’s castability; the other half is based on fan appeal, Q score and box-office marketability,” he added. “The ‘fan base variable’ will likely become increasingly more relevant on the other side of this election.”
“Trump not only won the Electoral College, he also won the popular vote, which was the first time a Republican has done so in 20 years,” Eldridge continued. “That said, while directors and producers will still readily cast an outspoken actor regardless of their saber-rattling rhetoric, fans might be less forgiving. Over half the country used their voice when casting their ballots, so that could have blowback on some of the more outspoken celebrities who chased clout and tried to put their thumb on the scale.”
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On Wednesday, celebrities flocked to social media to express their thoughts on Trump’s victory over Vice President Harris.
“Please unfollow me if you voted against female rights,” Christina Applegate wrote on X. “Against disability rights. Yeah that. Unfollow me because what you did is unreal. Don’t want followers like this. So yeah. Done. Also after today I will be shutting down this fan account that I have had for so many years because this is sick.”
Mandy Moore shared her thoughts on her Instagram stories, writing, “Shout out to all of us processing our grief, disbelief, anger, fear, uncertainty, devastation while simultaneously carrying on with life and putting on a brave face for our families…I see you. Let’s be tender with ourselves and one another.”
Hulk Hogan, who has voiced his support for Trump, wrote, “Believe it or not, brother, we’re more alike than we are different. This election season showed just how much we all care about where this country’s headed. Now that the votes are in, let’s remember—it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, we’re all real Americans. It’s time to come together, talk with our neighbors and focus on what unites us. We all love this country, and we’re all in for building a better future. Love you all. HH.”
While the aftermath of the election continues to affect people in different ways, Eldridge says that those with a platform should consider one thing.
“The most logical thing any celebrity could say at this point, at least among those who vowed to move out of the country if Trump was elected, would be: ‘He wasn’t my vote, but as an American, he is my president. Whether you supported him or not, it’s time for all of us to come together as a country and make this country what we all know it’s capable of being, becoming or remaining great.’ That level of humility and magnanimity would go a long way these days.”
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