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Published 16:44 07 Oct 2020 GMT
The Presidential election is just weeks away, and with the race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden heating up, Katherine Schwarzenegger has urged her followers to vote for Joe Biden.
The 30-year-old lent her support to the Democratic candidate in a series of Instagram stories after Trump told Americans not to be "afraid of COVID" after being diagnosed himself.
"If that tweet itself is not enough to get you fired up to want to elect Biden and get rid of Trump as president of our country, then I don't know what is," the 30-year-old said, per Yahoo! News, in reference to Trump's tweet that he would be returning to the White House.
"That's the sickest tweet I've ever seen. Please vote."
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Trump urged Americans not to "let [the coronavirus] dominate your life" and assured them that he felt better than he did 20 years ago after contracting the virus that has killed more than a million people around the globe.
Schwarzenegger, who is the daughter of California's former Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, a relative of former President John F. Kennedy, said that while she has different political views from some people, Trump's recent actions have forced her to speak out against him.
"I've also always been somebody who is super respectful of people's choices to support whoever they want to support, especially politically. I grew up in a family with different political views, so I'm very used to that and I'm also very respectful of it," she said, Yahoo! News reports.
"But I'm actually at a point now where if I think that I am interacting with anybody who supports a man who tweets that when there are people who have lost loved ones and who are really sick and people who are still dying because of COVID, then I just don't really know how I can understand how you can support an individual like that. So, get thinking people [sic]."
The 30-year-old subsequently posted a picture of herself smiling after some of her followers slammed her for speaking out against Trump.
"Please go ahead and unfollow me if you think Trump's tweet today was appropriate or helpful in regards to the global pandemic we are in and to those who's [sic] lives have been lost," she wrote, alongside a sparkly sticker that reads: "Bye for now."
