'Avengers' stars assemble in ad for Kamala Harris: ‘NEW CRINGE JUST DROPPED’
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Superheroes or super-awkward?
Stars from various Marvel movies, including Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, have reunited in an ad for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.
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The ad begins with Scarlett Johansson in a blue “Kamala 2024” shirt greeting her co-stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Danai Gurira, and Paul Bettany in a video call.
Cheadle begins with a bad dad joke about the group “assembling,” which doesn’t go over well with the other actors.
As Gurira, Bettany and Ruffalo try to kick off the discussion, Downey Jr. dominates the conversation and suggests that Harris needs a catchphrase.
“How about this? I’m just, off the top of my head: ‘I can do this all day,’” Evans says, but RDJ and Cheadle aren’t fans of it.
“What about something punchier like …,“ Downey Jr. starts before Cheadle chimes in, “Boom! You looking for this?”
Ruffalo tries to interrupt and get back on track, noting, “I think we’re just trying to get out the vote …” when Gurira adds: “Kamala forever.”
Bettany suggests, “How about ‘I’m down with democracy’? It’s clean and simple.”
They all agree, as Ruffalo says, “It’s hard to argue with that.”
Cheadle, however, messes up the intent of it, as he declares, “I’m Kamala Harris and I say, ‘Down with democracy.’ Yeah, together we got to tear down democracy.”
Ruffalo asks, “Is that what we mean, though?”
It ends with Cheadle saying in his best Harris impression, “I’m Kamala Harris and I am down with democracy.”
The caption of the video shared on Ruffalo’s X account reads: “We’re back. Let’s #AssembleForDemocracy. In the #ElectionEndgame, every vote counts,” and encourages fans to vote for Harris and the Democrats.
Other X users were unimpressed by the star-studded reunion.
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“New cringe just dropped,” Washington Examiner contributor Kimberly Ross wrote.
Conservative commentator Carmine Sabia added: “I believe we can safely say Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the Hollywood douchenozzle vote.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz noted, “Um, a little too much honesty here … Kamala Harris ‘tearing down democracy!’”
Others recalled how Ruffalo, Downey, Johansson and Cheadle appeared in an ad for Hillary Clinton, where Cheadle alluded to Donald Trump and asked viewers if they wanted to vote for a “racist, abusive coward who could permanently damage the fabric of our society.”
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