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Debra Messing and Susan Sarandon end Twitter fight over Hillary Clinton

The actors ended their Twitter feud, started after Sarandon, a Bernie Sanders supporter, said she would not vote for Hillary Clinton if she won the nomination
  
  

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Susan Sarandon speaks at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in Boise, Idaho. Photograph: Brian Losness/Reuters

Susan Sarandon and Debra Messing have declared their Twitter feud over after the two actors got into a public spat over their support for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race.

The feud began when Sarandon implied that she would vote for Republican frontrunner Donald Trump if Sanders, her preferred Democratic candidate, lost the nomination to Clinton.

“I think a lot of people are like, ‘Sorry, I just can’t bring myself to vote for [Clinton],’” Sarandon said during an appearance MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes on Monday. “Some people feel Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately.”

While Sarandon later clarified that she would never vote for Trump, her comments drew immediate fury – not least from Messing, a prominent Clinton supporter, who asked the Thelma and Louise star why she would not use her large platform to make clear that she would not vote for Trump.

She added:

Sarandon defended herself, saying she was thinking more about first-time voters who might have a “dilemma” in voting for someone who they had not originally supported.

Messing fired back, saying again that Sarandon’s position and influence mattered.

In between sparring with each other, each actor took the time to retweet support from various individuals and news outlets. Sarandon called out the Will and Grace star for retweeting negative comments about her.

But as of Thursday the two actors appear to be keen to call a truce, with a little help from actor Kathy Najimy, who also voiced her concern with Sarandon’s comments.

 

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