Actress Susan Sarandon, a vocal advocate for Bernie Sanders, said she doesn’t know if she could vote for Hillary Clinton if she were the Democratic presidential nominee.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes asked the Oscar-winning actress Monday night about her position. “I think, in certain quarters there’s growing concern that the folks that are into Bernie Sanders have come to despise Hillary Clinton or reject Hillary Clinton, and that should she be the nominee, which is as yet undetermined, they will walk away.”
Sarandon replied, “That’s a legitimate concern, because they’re very passionate and very principled.”
Hayes immediately questioned, “but isn’t that crazy? … If you believe in what he believes in.”
“Yeah, but she doesn’t. She’s accepted money from all those people. She doesn’t even wanna fight for a $15 minimum wage. So these are people that have not … come out before so why would we think they’re going to come out now for her?”
She went on to say, “I’ve talked to Republicans who … feel she’s not authentic, she’s a liar, they don’t trust her. So what difference does it make?”
Sarandon, who in the past has bashed Clinton on her voting record on foreign affairs, continued in the same vein by saying that “she hasn’t voted right” on fracking, Monsanto or the Trans-Pacific Partnership, so “what would make you think that once she gets in she’s going to suddenly go against the people that have given her millions and millions of dollars?
“Some people feel Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately. If he gets in then things will really explode,” she said.
Probing further on the Trump versus Clinton issues, Hayes asked, “Isn’t the question always, in an election about choices … if it’s Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,” Sanders would probably tell voters to pick Clinton.
Sarandon said, “I think Bernie would probably encourage people because he doesn’t have any ego in the thing. But I think a lot of people are ‘sorry, I just can’t bring myself to do that.’ ”
Hayes asked her what she would do. She said, “I don’t know. I’m going to see what happens.”
Hayes then went on to ask her about her thoughts on the refugee crisis, a cause she’s been involved in. Sarandon said, “I just got so fed up with this fear-based, negative dialogue, mostly from Trump, that everybody else was picking up and not taking on this issue because it had been something that has been politicized opposed to a moral problem.”
