Mark Ruffalo brought his activist energy to New York City on Sunday, telling a“Hands Off Our Vote”rally that Republicans will do“everything in their power”to steal the 2026 midterms and that the fight won’t end on election night. He also raised concerns about vote-transfer vulnerabilities and named Elon Musk as a cybersecurity threat, before calling Trump a“lame-ass”and urging people to stop his policies now.
It didn’t take long for critics to pull up his 2020 posts, where he told then-President Trump to“let the process happen”and to be patient while ballots were being counted. That side-by-side is now the center of the conversation online, and it’s fueling a bigger debate about consistency in election rhetoric.
Worth noting: most votes are already tabulated locally before they ever reach media outlets, according to NBC News. So the process Ruffalo once defended is the same one he’s now warning about. Where do you land — does a celebrity’s election message still carry weight when the receipts show a different tone?
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