Lena Dunham has admitted that she regrets campaigning for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
Reflecting on her political activism in her new memoir Famesick, the Girls star, 39, now wishes that she’d supported progressive firebrand Bernie Sanders over the neoliberal Clinton.
‘I know I hit the ground running just a day or so after Girls wrapped, campaigning for Hillary Clinton in more American states than I’d ever been to in my life,’ she wrote.
‘And I know now, I wish I’d just posted a “BERNIE” sign in my window instead,’ she added.
In another chapter, Dunham admitted that she didn’t get much out of devoting so much of her time to the former First Lady.
‘I had campaigned for Hillary Clinton, and literally all I got was this lousy T-shirt,’ she wrote.
Lena Dunham has admitted that she regrets campaigning for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election
Dunham was one of Clinton’s most outspoken advocates during the 2016 Presidential election, which resulted in Donald Trump winning for the first time.
The actress often draped herself in Clinton-themed clothing during the campaign, and also once famously donned a T-shirt with Clinton’s face on the front.
One week before the 2016 election, Dunham teamed up with Funny or Die to release a pro-Clinton rap song called Sensual Pantsuit Anthem featuring Cynthia Erivo.
Writing about Clinton’s campaign in April, 2016, for Time magazine, Dunham gushed, ‘I think she’d do a fantastic job, better than anyone else.’
She also slammed Senator Sanders in the same piece and implied that he wasn’t serious enough about supporting women.
‘In a million ways, for women and girls in every walk of life, Hillary does the damn thing. I just don’t see that from Senator Sanders,’ she said.
Many people will remember Dunham publicly vowing to leave the United States for Canada if Trump won the 2016 election, which he eventually did.
‘I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will,’ she declared on CBS News several months before the election.
‘I wish I’d just posted a “BERNIE” sign in my window instead’: Dunham now says that she should’ve supported Bernie Sanders over Clinton
Dunham is pictured addressing voters at a Clinton campaign event in New Hampshire in 2016
‘I know a lovely place in Vancouver and I can get my work done from there.’
Two weeks after Trump won, Dunham backtracked on her promise and said that she had decided to remain in America.
‘I can survive staying in this country, MY country, to fight and live and use my embarrassment of blessings to do what’s right,’ she announced on social media.
‘It’s easy to joke about moving to Canada. It’s harder to see, and to love, the people who fill your mailbox with hate,’ she continued.
‘It’s harder to see what needs to be done and do it. It’s harder to live, fully and painfully aware of the injustice surrounding us, to cherish and fear your country all at once. But I’m willing to try. Will you try with me?’
The actress often draped herself in Clinton-themed clothing during the campaign, and also one famously donned a T-shirt with Clinton’s face on the front
In 2021, Dunham fantasized about becoming Hunter Biden’s wife
Dunham has remained a staunch Democrat over the last two elections, with the star publicly supporting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020.
Explaining her choice to vote for the pair in the 2020 election, which they won, Dunham said that healthcare as a ‘right’ was important to her, even though Biden famously did not support Medicare for All.
‘It will surprise exactly nobody to learn that I support #bidenharris,’ she wrote at the time.
‘Because I want a world where healthcare is a right not a privilege, women have bodily autonomy, systemic racism doesn’t run rampant throughout our police forces, our trans siblings can walk into any bathroom, global warming isn’t treated as a myth…. the list goes on.’
The actress is currently promoting her new memoir, Famesick
She was pictured heading to a promotional interview for the book in New York City on Wednesday
She later sparked outrage after publicly fantasizing about being married to Hunter Biden in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
‘I cannot wait to spend holidays at the White House when I am Hunter Biden’s beautiful wife,’ she posted, before her followers informed her that Hunter was already married.
Despite moving to London in 2021, Dunham threw her support behind Harris and Tim Walz during the 2024 election, which was once again won by Trump.
‘I’m not voting for Kamala Harris because of her gender. But it is a buoy of hope—that someone with a more intimate understanding of these injustices will have the empathy and equilibrium to make moves to correct them,’ she told Vogue in 2024.
She is currently on a promotional tour for her memoir Famesick.
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