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Actor Bradley Whitford from The West Wing and The Handmaid’s Story desires Democrats to keep away from falling into “despair” after Donald Trump’s second victory, he informed The Unbiased in an unique interview.
Whitford, identified for his Emmy-winning West Wing efficiency because the firebrand political strategist Josh Lyman, stated he was stunned by Trump’s decisive win. The 65-year-old has lengthy been a Democratic ally, and most just lately spoke at a Harris rally in Wisconsin on October 22.
“I completely thought we had been going to win,” Whitford informed The Unbiased exterior the White Home on Wednesday afternoon, lower than 12 hours after Donald Trump secured his second time period.
“I believed it was going to be nearer,” he added. “However each time any of my pals requested me, I’d finish it with, ‘You’ll be able to by no means underestimate how you already know, racist and sexist this nation is.’”
The polls urged it will be nearer, too. The final New York Instances/Siena Faculty ballot earlier than Election Day confirmed the 2 candidates neck-and-neck in all swing states.
In actuality, Trump gained the swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Arizona and Nevada are nonetheless too early to name as of Wednesday afternoon, however will in the end not make a distinction within the election consequence.
Whitford then referred to as on Democrats to take motion in response to their historic losses this Election Day.
“Despair is a luxurious our kids can’t afford, and motion is the antidote to despair, and we’ll proceed the battle to carry this nation as much as its spectacular, unfulfilled aspiration,” Whitford stated.
“Cynicism and despair is what they need you to really feel, and despair is a luxurious that the longer term can’t afford,” he added.
When The Unbiased requested what he would inform Trump if given the prospect, Whitford took a beat to think about his reply.
“Mix your make-up,” he stated with fun.
Whitford additionally shared a 40-year-old anecdote in regards to the first time he discovered of Trump.
“My first consciousness of Donald Trump: I went to school, after which I went to performing college in New York,” Whitford informed The Unbiased. “And once I obtained to performing college, there have been some fourth-year guys who had been actually upset, as a result of they’d spent the summer season working for this actual property man who had by no means paid them. They’d confronted him — that is 1981 — and he stated, ‘What are you going to do? Going to sue me? You understand, you’re effing actors.’”
“It’s utterly bewildering to me, the cult that has fashioned round a narcissist like this, the worst individual in present enterprise, and that’s a troublesome class,” Whitford concluded.
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t reply to a request for remark.
