Alec Baldwin endorsed Democratic Senator for Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse as vice president Tuesday amid his involuntary manslaughter over . As jury selection for Baldwin's trial was underway Tuesday in a Santa Fe, New Mexico courtroom, a simple statement written in the Notes app was posted to the 66-year-old actor's account, reading, "Sheldon Whitehouse for Vice President." Whitehouse has served as the junior United States senator from Rhode Island since 2007.
He has not expressed intent to run for vice president in the 2024 election but will seek a fourth term in the . "Standing up for Rhode Islanders to protect this beautiful state and all of us who live here is the reason Sheldon Whitehouse got into politics," a narrator says in a released in April. Baldwin, a known Democrat, previously endorsed in his two presidential campaigns.
Starting in 2016, he portrayed former President on "Saturday Night Live," which earned him a Primetime Emmy in 2017. Baldwin continued his portrayal of Trump until he lost the 2020 election. Trump – who said in November 2021 that Baldwin did a " poor job of imitating me" – also weighed in on the fatal "Rust" shooting.
"He's a troubled guy. There's something wrong with him," Trump said of Baldwin at the time on conservative radio host Chris Stigall's . "I've watched him for years.
He gets into fistfights with reporters. He's a cuckoo bird. He's a nut job.
And usually, when there's somebody like that, you know, in my opinion, he had somethin.
