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Pre-Election Vibe Check: Hollywood Edition

A pre-election check-in on the Hollywood donors and activists, from a studio chairman to an emerging screenwriter and a late-night TV host, who are simultaneously freaking out and (cautiously) optimistic about the final push for the Harris-Walz campaign.

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As the November 5 presidential election nears, I’ve found that few in liberal-leaning Hollywood want to talk about anything else. Photo: Julia Beverly/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
October 25, 2024

What I’m Hearing is usually a politics-free zone. (Puck has a great political newsletter, free for members so inclined.) But as the November 5 presidential election nears, I’ve found that few in liberal-leaning Hollywood want to talk about anything else. In my chats, there seems to be the soiled-diaper crowd, parsing every headline and poll for alarming evidence that this tight race is slipping away from Kamala Harris. Other Dems are confident that the polls are failing to account for Trump fatigue, or the post-Dobbs anger. And yes, there are Trump supporters throughout Hollywood (we see you, Michael and Jerry), but, of course, they don’t talk about it.