Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Harris, Buzz Aldrin backs Trump

Bodybuilder and character Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Kamala Harris for president Wednesday, while legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., gave his backing to erstwhile President Trump.

The 2 endorsements travel pinch conscionable days near until Election Day pinch some campaigns stumping heavy successful battleground states to statement up votes. 

Schwarzenegger, 77, who served arsenic nan Republican politician of California from 2003 to 2011, said he was putting state earlier authorities by handing retired his second-ever statesmanlike endorsement. In 2016, he endorsed erstwhile Ohio Gov. John Kasich in that year’s Republican statesmanlike primaries.

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Bodybuilder and character Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Kamala Harris for president Wednesday, while legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., gave his backing to erstwhile President Trump. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, left, Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Celebrity Fight Night, right. )

"Let maine beryllium honorable pinch you: I don’t for illustration either statement correct now. My Republicans have forgotten nan beauty of nan free market, driven up deficits, and rejected predetermination results. Democrats aren’t immoderate amended astatine dealing pinch deficits, and I interest astir their section policies hurting our cities pinch accrued crime," Schwarzenegger wrote successful a lengthy station connected X.

Schwarzenegger went connected to obstruction astir politicians failing to walk "comprehensive migration reform" and past turned his ire towards erstwhile President Trump, calling for nan state to "turn nan page" connected nan 45th president, who he says "won’t respect your ballot unless it is for him" and "will nonstop his followers to large wind nan Capitol while he watches pinch a Diet Coke."

"Rejecting nan results of an predetermination is arsenic un-American arsenic it gets," he wrote.

"A campaigner who has shown nary expertise to activity to walk immoderate argumentation too a taxation trim that helped his donors and different rich | group for illustration maine but helped nary 1 else…, a campaigner who thinks Americans who disagree pinch him are nan bigger enemies than China, Russia, aliases North Korea - that won’t lick our problems," wrote Schwarzenegger, known for his domiciled successful respective "Terminator" franchise movies.

"It will conscionable beryllium 4 much years of bulls--- pinch nary results that makes america angrier and angrier, much divided, and much hateful," he wrote earlier throwing his support down nan Harris-Walz ticket, without outlining immoderate of their run policies he supports.

Aldrin, 94, nan 2nd personification to locomotion connected nan satellite aft ngo commandant Neil Armstrong according to NASA, threw his weight down Trump, touting nan erstwhile president’s efforts to elevate abstraction exploration arsenic a "policy of precocious value again" and that his management "reignited nationalist efforts to get backmost to nan Moon and push connected to Mars."

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The 3 unit members of NASA's Apollo 11 lunar landing ngo airs for a group image a fewer weeks earlier nan launch, May 1969. (Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

"The Trump Administration besides reinstituted nan National Space Council, and our Nation’s defense was enhanced pinch nan creation of nan U.S. Space Force – progressively important arsenic abstraction becomes a contested domain," Aldrin wrote connected X.

"At nan aforesaid time, I person been enthused and excited by nan awesome advancements successful nan backstage assemblage abstraction economy, led by visionaries like Elon Musk. These are actual accomplishments that align pinch my concerns and America’s argumentation priorities."

Aldrin said that erstwhile President Trump is nan campaigner who has nan correct attributes to lead America, which is facing "serious and difficult challenges some astatine location and abroad."

"The Presidency requires clarity successful judgement, decisiveness, and calm nether unit that fewer person a earthy expertise to manage, aliases nan life acquisition to successfully undertake. It is simply a occupation wherever decisions are made that routinely impact American lives – immoderate urgently but not without thought," Aldrin wrote.

"For me, for nan early of our country, to meet tremendous challenges, and for nan proven argumentation accomplishments above, I judge we are champion served by voting for erstwhile President Trump. I wholeheartedly endorse him for President of nan United States. Godspeed President Trump, and God Bless nan United States of America."

Aldrin’s endorsement was welcomed by nan erstwhile president, who commented connected nan show of support astatine a rally successful North Carolina connected Wednesday.

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Aldrin’s endorsement was welcomed by nan erstwhile president, who commented connected nan show of support astatine a rally successful North Carolina connected Wednesday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"Buzz Aldrin, very respected, nan awesome astronaut and highly respected. But I thought it was an unusual," Trump said earlier straying to statement that outlets for illustration nan Washington Post and Los Angeles Times person refused to make endorsements, which he said is simply a rejection of Vice President Harris.

"But Buzz Aldrin is very absorbing because a awesome astronaut… He's a very sound man and great, looks fantastic. 

"What he said is ‘I've ne'er endorsed anybody successful my life before… This is nan first clip I've ever made an endorsement… I'm endorsing Donald J. Trump.’ Isn't that nice? So convey you, Buzz Aldrin. And I for illustration him, too. I've ever admired him."

Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.