In a new ad from the progressive evangelical group Vote Common Good, Oscar-winning actor George Clooney reminds male voters that “you can vote any way you want — and no one will ever know” — including your Republican friends.
In the 30-second ad, first shared with NBC News, three men enter a polling place together, with one of them saying, “C’mon, boys, let’s make America great again,” nodding to Trump’s campaign slogan. But when one of the men enters the ballot booth, he sees his young daughter nearby and decides to vote for Harris.
“What happens in the booth stays in the booth,” Clooney, a high-profile Democratic donor, says on the voiceover track. “Vote Harris/Walz.”
Vote Common Good released a similar ad this week focused on women and narrated by Oscar-winning actor Julia Roberts, who describes polling places as “the one place in America where women still have the right to choose.”
In that ad, a female voter in a Stars and Stripes baseball cap casts her vote for Harris. When she leaves the voting booth, a man who appears to be her husband asks: “Did you make the right choice?” She replies: “Sure did, honey.”
Doug Pagitt, an evangelical pastor and the executive director of Vote Common Good, said the goal of both ads is to remind voters that they can break with Republican friends and family members.
“We know the MAGA movement is putting increased pressure on people, but we also know the strong will of Americans when they stand in the voting booth,” Pagitt said.
Vote Common Good launched in 2018 as a progressive counterweight to Trump’s political strength with conservative evangelical Christians, a demographic that voted for him in overwhelming numbers in 2016 and 2020.
