The dissipating fog of fawning over Vice President Kamala Harris had a Netflix star admitting her preference for a third-party candidate: “I have a great issue with her and [President Joe] Biden…”
More than a month after falling up to the top of the ticket, Harris left voters and talking heads alike unimpressed with her tag team softball interview beside running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. For BAFTA Award-winning actress Rakie Ayola, it appeared a preference toward a “protest vote” had already been decided as the Welsh performer voiced her position on Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
Though ineligible to vote in the upcoming election, the actress who portrays Persephone in the Netflix series “Kaos” spoke with Newsweek and explained her stance including her hope that former President Donald Trump loses in November.
“Maybe new things, innovative things, progressive things only ever happen when we’re not ready for them. Maybe by their very nature, they can’t–if we’re too comfortable, we just stick with what we have,” suggested Ayola. “So I’d say truthfully, no, I don’t think the U.S. is ready for a female president, but that doesn’t mean they won’t vote for one. That doesn’t mean that people won’t vote for [Harris].”
“I hope they do because, you know, I have a great issue with her and Biden, but of the options–I mean, I think if I was there,” revealed the actress, “I’d be voting for Jill Stein but I’d also know that that would be a protest vote.”
Newsweek detailed that in 2016 when Trump had run against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Stein’s third-party candidacy had received over 31,000 votes in Wisconsin. Trump had won the state by less than 23,000 votes and, while the 10 electoral votes would not have changed the outcome that year where the GOP leader won 306 to 232, spoilers loomed large in 2024.
Acknowledging that reality factored into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to suspend his campaign and put his support behind Trump while Democrats, who’d previously issued legal challenges to prevent ballot access for the environmental attorney, endeavored to keep him on the ballot in battleground states.
INSIDER: RFK Jr. to remain on ballot in 2 key Dem-run battleground states https://t.co/geBPBXKO5t
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) August 28, 2024
Ayola made clear, “I hope that Kamala Harris wins over Trump. But, you know, I’m not there to vote.”
Without expanding on what she meant about the nation being “ready,” the actress went on to argue that the same had been true prior to the election of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in 2008. “Is the U.S. ready for that to happen? Not at all but then the U.S. wasn’t ready for Obama and the reaction to him was everything that’s happened since in terms of where politics has swung. So I’d say I hope she wins, but then I’d also say buckle up, everybody, because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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