White Dudes for Harris, a pop-up group supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid to defeat Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, said Elon Musk’s X has suspended its account — shortly after hosting a YouTube livestream that raised more than $4 million for Harris’ campaign.
Mike Nellis, founder/CEO of digital promotion agency Genuine, which is among the organizers of White Dudes for Harris, wrote in a post Monday night: “We scared the crap out of @elonmusk and @DonaldJTrumpJr tonight, they suspended our account and won’t let us back in. These guys are running on fear of the success we had tonight, but we won’t stop.”
In an update on Tuesday, Nellis wrote that “Our tweets are back up (@dudes4harris) but our account remains suspended and according to Twitter, our account is ‘fully in read-only mode.’”
An X consultant did not respond to a request for comment.
Hamill, commenting on the apparent suspension, wrote: “In just over 3 hours, the @dudes4harris Zoom handle triggered $4 million in donations to @KamalaHarris. Apparently someone else was also triggered. “
Musk — responding Monday night to someone who posted a snippet of Hamill’s livestream commentary saying it “has never been more vital for us to confront (Trump’s) mental illness and vote for Kamala in 2024” — wrote of Hamill: “Your mind has been marinating in Kool-Assist for a long time.”
The White Dudes for Harris noted that 190,000 people tuned into the YouTube livestream on Monday, which featured appearances from actors including Hamill, Jeff Bridges, JJ Abrams, Sean Astin, Josh Groban, Josh Gad, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bradley Whitford. “I qualify, man. I’m white, I’m a dude, and I’m for Harris,” Bridges, who played “The Dude” in the Coen brothers’ 1998 film “The Big Lebowski,” said in the livestream.
The White Dudes for Harris account on X describes itself as “Just a few dudes helping Kamala Harris.” It currently has over 55,000 followers.
Musk, meanwhile, has made no secret of his opposition to Harris. On Friday, July 26, Musk shared a deepfake video that altered a more recent marketing campaign video for Harris, which featured Harris saying she was “the ultimate in range rental” and that she “had 4 years under the tutelage of the ultimate deep state puppet, an exquisite mentor, Joe Biden.” The sole account that posted the video labeled it a “parody,” but Musk’s post was simply captioned “This is excellent,” with a laughing emoji.
In a Sunday post on X, California Gov. Gavin Newsom cited an article about Musk’s post and wrote: “Manipulating a voice in an ‘ad’ like this should be illegal. I will be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is.”
Musk responded to Newsom: “I checked with world renowned authority Professor Suggon Deeznutz and he mentioned that parody is allowed in America. “
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