TV stars campaign for Clinton

Celebrities from old-time television favourites appeal to their fans to follow their lead and vote

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“I do not have faith that Donald Trump has any real interest in leaving the world a better place than how we found it,” actor Richard Schiff, who on the show played Toby Ziegler, the melancholy and crippling quixotic White House communications director, told People. “So there’s no debate here, there’s no question. I would vote for Donald Duck over Donald Trump.”

Mary McCormack, who played national security director Kate Harper, assembled the crew, which included actors Josh Malina (Will Bailey), Bradley Whitford ( Josh Lyman), Allison Janney (CJ Cregg), Dulé Hill (Charlie Young) and Schiff.

“What I’ve been saying about The West Wing is that on the show we had rational, well-intentioned Republicans,” Whitford told People. “Obviously, Donald Trump and his antics, we would have never insulted the Republican Party on The West Wing by having a candidate who mocks people’s physical disabilities, who demeans women. We’re living in some bad writing right now.”

The cast was not joined by their fictional leader, President Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, though the actor did make an appearance in a different celebrity-filled spot that resonated with the same message: Please vote.

“We cannot pretend both sides are equally unfavourable,” Sheen declares in the video.

He speaks in snippets, strewn together with others from, as the video defines it, a “ton of famous people” led by “Iron Man” Robert Downey jr, calling on Americans to register to vote. They call it an obligation and one of the “most important decisions” in American history.

“But you only get this many famous people together if the issue is one that truly matters to all of us,” the actors say, finishing each other’s sentences. “A disease.” “Or an ecological crisis.” “Or a racist, abusive coward who could permanently damage the fabric of our society.”

They promoted Save The Day, a short-form digital production company funded by a Political Action Committee (PAC), which has a website that helps citizens discover voter registration deadlines and information.

And registering, according to the video, affords viewers a special reward: Mark Ruffalo, nude, in his next movie.