LeBron James endorsed Kamala Harris within the presidential election through a submit on social media Thursday.
“What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” he posted on X together with a video starting with a racist joke from comic Tony Hinchcliffe and together with soundbites from former President Trump.
The video ends with the phrase “Hate Takes Us Back.”
Between his Instagram and X accounts, James shared the video and endorsement to greater than 200 million mixed followers.
James is not any stranger to enjoying a job in presidential politics, having fashioned the group Extra Than a Vote in 2020 in response to the racial turmoil and reckoning following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Extra Than A Vote labored with a nonpartisan voting rights group to struggle voter suppression.
In 2024, WNBA star Nneka Ogwumike assumed management of the nonprofit, which shifted its focus to girls’s freedoms.
James endorsed Joe Biden in the course of the 2020 election and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
