Celebrities Who Tried to Stop Donald Trump Fall Silent
Politics,Donald Trump,Celebrities,Culture,Republican Party,2024 Presidential Election
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The deafening silence indicates that there's no repeat performance on the horizon. On December 16, 2016, Martin Sheen and Debra Messing led an army of fellow celebrities in urging Republican electors not to cast their vote for Donald Trump.
The bombastic real estate mogul—who had crashed onto the political scene—had won the election. His shock triumph over former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defied polls and prediction models as a deeply divided U.S. prepared to welcome a president who just a few years earlier had regularly graced screens as the face of NBC reality contest The Apprentice.
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