Clooney urges men to consider how voting for Trump will affect women

George Clooney has doubled down on his endorsement of Kamala Harris in a new campaign advertisement urging men to consider how voting for Donald Trump in tomorrow's election will affect the women in their lives.

The ad, released by left-wing Christian organization Vote Common Good, reminded men that they can lie to their Trump supporting friends about how they voted and urged them to think about how their vote will 'impact the people you care about the most' before casting their ballots.

The clip follows a father and his masculine-looking friends into the polls as they encourage each other to 'make America great again'.

Clooney, 63, who narrates the short video, then urges voters to think about their families and reminds them that 'you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know' before the man is seen voting for Harris.

This new ad is the second released by Vote Common Good that encourages voters to hide their choices from their families or friends. The first ad, starring Clooney's Oceans 11 co-star Julia Roberts, urged women to keep their votes secret from their husbands and was branded 'nauseating' and 'condescending' by critics.

It comes just months after Clooney wrote an op-ed calling for President Joe Biden to step aside. The actor also threw his support behind Harris after she announced her bid for the White House, saying that he was 'excited' to support her 'historic quest'.

The 30-second advertisement begins with a trio of men walking into the polling station. 'Come on boys, let's Make America Great Again', one says to the group. 

The men go to their individual polling booths and one is seen hovering his pen over the box with Trump's name.

'Before you cast your vote in this election, think about how it will impact the people you care about the most,' Clooney says in a voiceover as the man looks at a family photo on his phone.

A young girl is then heard shouting 'Daddy!' from across the room. He looks over at her, smiles and puts up one finger, indicating he'll be just a minute.

He makes eye-contact with his fried, who nods, and then fills in the box with Harris' name, as Clooney says: 'Remember, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know.'

The scene cuts to the group exiting the polls. The man, holding his daughter in his arms, is asked by a friend: 'Do your patriotic duty?'

'You bet I did brother', he replies.

The clip concludes with one last anecdote from Clooney: 'What happens in the booth, stays in the booth. Vote Harris-Walz.'

Vote Common Good released the Clooney ad alongside its controversial ad featuring Roberts which suggests that wives of Trump supporters could quietly vote for Harris.

'In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want, and no one will ever know,' Roberts says, as a woman hesitates before casting her vote for Harris.

'Did you make the right choice?' her husband later asks. She responds, 'Sure did, honey,' insinuating that she voted for Harris.

Roberts concludes, 'Remember, what happens in the booth, stays in the booth. Vote Harris-Walz.'

The ad sparked conservative backlash online, with some accusing it of undermining marital unity and encouraging deceitfulness between couples.

A user on X said in a post: 'I can't imagine not knowing exactly how my wife would vote. I can't imagine my wife not talking to me about any of these controversial topics. I can't believe there's a campaign that encourages women to lie and deceive their husbands.

'Right. Encourage marital strife. That's the way to reach married women. This is so disturbing' another X user said.

Disapproval also came from female users, who called the ad 'misogynistic.'

'I'm guessing the people who created this ad have never been married, said one X user.

'I'm at a loss for words at how condescending this is towards women,' wrote another user. 'Do Democrats think marriages are stuck in the 1950s?'

'If you have to lie to your spouse about voting, that's the least of your problems…' said another user.

But other users said the ad was an important message to women who are in this situation with their spouses. 

'Remember: these ads are not for us. There are millions of extremely regressive and patriarchal couples in this huge, diverse country,' one user said, defending the ad's intentions.

'Don't pretend there aren't marriages like this. They're more common than you think,' said another.

Both the Clooney and Roberts ads are seemingly encouraging voters to consider women's rights and reproductive health before they cast their vote.

Harris has emphasized her support for abortion rights after the Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion services.

The Vice President's campaign is hoping abortion is a key issue that can hurt Trump, especially with woman voters, while Trump has focused on migrants and the economy and dubbed political opponents the 'enemy from within.' 

With abortion rights a top voter concern, Harris' campaign has hailed the large proportion of women turning out among early voters. 

Clooney first threw his support behind Harris in July, just two weeks after he said it was time to move on from Biden in scathing article for the New York Times.

'President Biden has shown what true leadership is. He's saving democracy once again,' he said in a statement to CNN, two days after Biden made the extraordinary decision to drop out of the race.

He endorsed the Vice President to succeed him as the Democratic nominee to take on Trump, saying: 'We're all so excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harris in her historic quest.'

Biden had faced an increasingly frenzied clamor to step aside after a disastrous debate performance against Trump in June. 

Less than a month before he dropped out of the race, Clooney had raised $30million at a fundraiser for Biden.

However, the megastar, who hosted multiple fundraisers for Biden, wrote on July 10 that the president couldn't win the 'battle against time.'

The brutal opinion piece was seen as one of the turning points against Biden's bid to cling onto the nomination in a bid to secure a second term. 

The actor condemned Democratic party leaders for ignoring 'every warning sign' of Biden's declining physical and mental health and for trying to defend his car-crash debate performance against Trump.

He added that Democrat voters 'collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, who we respect, walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question.'