On Monday night, several Hollywood elites and top Democratic politicians gathered at a major campaign fundraiser to discuss their support for new presidential candidate Kamala Harris and urge the party's voters to head to the polls in November.
The “White Guys Supporting Harris” Zoom call began at 8pm on Monday night and was attended by a host of Hollywood liberals, along with key Democratic officials such as U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.
Just before the first major actor took to the stage, the Democratic moderator introduced Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, who joked about joining the call as a Black man. (Related article: The Trump campaign's simple plan to destroy Kamala Harris: Take her off script)
“I want to state the obvious, I don't know if you all noticed, but I'm not white, and yet here I am calling out White Dudes for Kamala and something weird is happening,” Mitchell said before explaining her position joining the men.
Shortly after, Hollywood A-lister Jeff Bridges also joined the call, speaking about his support for the vice president and how President Joe Biden “beautifully” “passed the baton” to Harris after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race on July 21.
“I'm excited. Joe has done a great job of passing the baton and I definitely see Kamala as our daughter. I can see her becoming president. I'm very excited,” Bridges said.
“A woman president is amazing! And I support the way she stands for women's rights. And the way she stands for the environment and taking care of children, her leadership is great and I support and endorse it,” the actor continued.
Jeff Bridges appears at the “White Dudes For Harris” Zoom event (Screenshot/”White Dudes For Harris” Zoom event)
Pete Buttigieg at the “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom event (Screenshot / “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom event)
Buttigieg then criticized former President Donald Trump's campaign against Harris, but praised her campaign theme of “freedom,” noting the freedom that would be gained for men if she were elected vice president.
“When you have a president who supports things like access to abortion care, men have more freedom. When the leader of the free world and the leader of this country supports access to contraception and IVF, men have more freedom. And when you have a president who supports the freedom to marry the person you love, men like me and my husband have more freedom,” Buttigieg said.
Cooper and American singer Josh Groban later joined the group, and the host introduced “The West Wing” actor Bradley Whitford, who highlighted “white diversity” in his campaign calls.
“There's so many shades of whiteness here. There's this guy, there's Pete. It's like a rainbow of beige,” Whitford began.
“I've been saying for the last eight years, if there is a God, she's a terrible writer. If I walked into the White House writers' room and said this person is going to be the Republican nominee – a felon, a convicted rapist, tanned and with hair on top of that – it would be perceived as condescending,” Whitford said, going on to speak about women's rights.
Bradley Whitford at the “White Dudes For Harris” Zoom event (Screenshot / “White Dudes For Harris” Zoom event)
Other guests included California Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, actor Josh Gad, Mitch Landrieu, senior advisor to the president for infrastructure coordination, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and labor leader Jimmy Williams Jr. All of the guests spoke of their enthusiasm for Harris as the leading Democratic presidential candidate and encouraged voters in the Zoom call to take action, such as donating money or supporting the campaign.
JB Pritzker at the “White Dudes For Harris” Zoom event (Screenshot / “White Dudes For Harris” Zoom event)
Josh Gad appears at the “White Dudes For Harris” Zoom event (Screenshot/”White Dudes For Harris” Zoom event)
The latest campaign fundraising appeal comes after White Women for Harris gathered on Zoom over the weekend, drawing some 200,000 people. according to The call to FOX59 came after the Harris campaign held “Support Black Woman Harris” and “Support Black Man Harris” fundraising Zoom calls, both of which were viewed by more than 40,000 people, the outlet reported.
The 2020 election was almost evenly split between Trump and President Joe Biden. according to According to the Pew Research Center, Trump won among men by 11 percentage points in 2016.
Trump held a slight lead among women in the 2020 election, up from 39% in 2016 to 44%, according to the data.
But a Pew Research Center report found that Biden garnered roughly the same amount of support from women as 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
According to the host at the time of publication, the “White Dude” fundraiser lasted more than 90 minutes in front of more than 100,000 viewers and raised more than $2 million.
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