Arnold Schwarzenegger has seen a spike in followers on X, formerly Twitter, the day after he endorsed Kamala Harris.
On Wednesday, Schwarzenegger posted a lengthy comment saying he “hates politics” now, but has come out publicly to endorse Harris and Walz because “I will always be an American before I am a Republican.”
The post has been viewed over 26 million times, and liked over 400,000 times. It also received critical comments from many high-profile conservative accounts, including Andrew Tate and Libs of Tiktok.
According to social-media analytics tracker SocialBlade, Schwarzenegger lost 537 followers on X that day, in keeping with a general pattern over the past two weeks of losing a few hundred followers most days. However, so far on Thursday he has gained over 18,623 — a fluctuation far higher than his account has seen in days prior. His total following is 5.2 million.
Schwarzenegger posted a screenshot of his post on …