Actor Robert De Niro urged voters to protect voting rights and to vote early at a New York “Hands Off Our Vote” event, telling the crowd voting should be easy and that powerful people are trying to take that power away.
At the mobilization event, De Niro urged attendees to “vote early” so ballots would be “banked” regardless of what might happen on Election Day, and the message was amplified in a video shared by the progressive group Indivisible, Fox News reported.
Fox News published De Niro’s remarks and quoted a line from his video message: “Voting is a constitutional right, but you have to see that this administration and the Supreme Court aren’t paying any attention to our constitutional rights,” and reported he concluded with, “No f—ing way,” directed at those trying to take votes away.
A video of the “Hands Off Our Vote” rally showing De Niro speaking in New York on Oct. 4 is available on YouTube, where the event is billed as a voter-mobilization rally featuring De Niro and other actors urging Americans to defend voting rights ahead of the midterms.
De Niro framed early voting and vote-by-mail as ways to ensure ballots are counted “no matter what they pull on Election Day,” and Fox News noted the video was part of the Indivisible campaign encouraging early ballots and vote-by-mail.
The event and video join a wave of celebrity-backed get-out-the-vote efforts this fall; readers interested in similar appeals can see Matthew McConaughey urges voters and reporting on related campaign appearances such as Trump in Syracuse rallies for Bruce Blakeman.
Sources
- Fox News — reported De Niro’s encouragement to “vote early,” quoted his line about constitutional rights and the “No f—ing way” remark, and said the video was shared by Indivisible.
- YouTube — video of the “Hands Off Our Vote” rally in New York on Oct. 4 showing De Niro and Mark Ruffalo urging voters to defend voting rights ahead of the midterms.
