Clinton campaign, Miley join forces
Pop star Cyrus door-knocks for the Democratic nominee in the swing state of Virginia
FAIRFAX, VA.,— Miley Cyrus — the celebrity wrecking ball, twerking machine, chart topper, Instagrammer, and former Bernie Sanders supporter — added a new move to her repertoire Saturday: door-knocker for Hillary Clinton.
“Hello? How are you? I’m Miley,” Cyrus said after knocking on the George Mason University dorm room door of Jake Zartman, 18, a freshman from Ohio. The 23-yearold pop star, now a coach on The Voice, was dressed in a glittery red and silver dress, with a blue bow tie covering her chest and a fuzzy pink head band. The young man was practically quaking.
“I’m here supporting Hillary. Are you going to vote?” Cyrus asked.
“You’ll be proud to know I’ve already voted for Hillary,” Zartman told her. “Yeah!” Cyrus cheered. And so it went on Saturday afternoon at George Mason in the swing state of Virginia, where students in the Piedmont dorm got to wait in their pizza box-laden rooms for Cyrus to enter and chat them up, and even pose for selfies on their junky twin beds. They were smiling and sticking their tongues out in trademark Cyrus style.
Hundreds of George Mason students who don’t live in Piedmont had to wait outside, where they chanted “We want Miley! We want Miley!” She blew them kisses from a dorm window, hoisting a “Stronger Together” poster and prompting shouts of “Twerk for us! Twerk!”
Cyrus’s endorsement of Clinton comes after some very public embraces of Sanders.
Just last month, Cyrus told Elle magazine that she was going to tell contestants the following advice: “Be Bernie Sanders. Be the person people want and love. Don’t worry about the masses. That’s how you make a memorable moment.”
Regardless of whether she’s been riding the Clinton train the whole time, one thing is clear: she is not a fan of Donald Trump. In early 2016, she unleashed an Instagram tirade on the eventual Republican nominee, blasting him as a “(expletive) nightmare,” and vowed to leave the country if he won the White House.