Robert De Niro is urging Americans to vote early so their ballots are locked in before what he suggests could be Election Day interference from the Trump administration.
The actor appears in a new ad released Thursday by the progressive group Indivisible as part of its “Hands Off Our Vote” campaign. De Niro claims the right to vote is under threat from the current administration and the Supreme Court.
“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,” De Niro says in the video.
De Niro, a longtime and vocal critic of President Trump, frames the choice facing voters starkly, describing one side as backing “a would-be king who gets us into a disastrous war and corruptly profits from it” and the other as candidates who “won’t cut your healthcare and won’t protect pedophiles.”
“There are some powerful people who want to take away that power. This is Robert De Niro, and I’ve got a message for them: No f—ing way. We’re fighting them in the courts and standing up to them in the streets,” he says.
He tells viewers to vote early, by mail or in person, so their ballots are secured regardless of what happens later in the election cycle.
“Whether by mail or in person, you control when, and then, no matter what they pull on Election Day, your vote will already be banked,” De Niro says.
The White House did not hold back in response. Spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital that De Niro is a “washed up has-been who hasn’t been relevant in 30 years” and accused him of “spewing hate speech and inciting violence against others.” Ingle added that De Niro should “seek help to treat his severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Indivisible for comment on the ad.
Part of a Broader Pattern
De Niro’s ad is the latest in a string of statements from Democratic figures suggesting Trump could manipulate or interfere with upcoming elections. In August, former Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Trump and Republicans were “trying to cheat” and said Democratic results would need to be “too big to rig.”
Republicans have pushed back hard, pointing out that Democrats have simultaneously opposed election security measures such as the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship and voter ID.
“It is Democrats bending over backwards to prevent voter ID and proof of citizenship for American elections. It is Democrats demanding that nobody ask questions about election security and irregularities. The projection is jaw-dropping,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told Fox News Digital in February.
The clash underscores a deepening divide over the credibility of American elections, with Democrats warning of interference from the executive branch and Republicans accusing Democrats of undermining confidence in the system while blocking safeguards meant to secure it.
