{"id":1099253,"date":"2021-12-08T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1099253"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:28:50","slug":"watch-ben-affleck-praises-hillary-clinton-as-wonderful-role-model-at-voting-rights-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ben-affleck-praises-hillary-clinton-as-wonderful-role-model-at-voting-rights-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Ben Affleck Praises Hillary Clinton as &#039;Wonderful Role Model&#039; at \u2018Voting Rights\u2019 Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-ben-affleck-praises-hillary-clinton-as-wonderful-role-model-at-voting-rights-fundraiser%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1099253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Actor Ben Affleck reportedly accused Republicans of using gerrymandering to subvert the democratic process and to \u201cdodge the consequences of their actions\u201d during an appearance at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/16\/ben-affleck-black-ish-star-tracee-ellis-ross-teaming-hillary-clinton-voting-rights-fundraiser\/\">virtual fundraiser<\/a> headlined by Hillary Clinton and former attorney general Eric Holder.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood star gushed over the former first lady, calling Clinton an &nbsp;\u201cextraordinary person\u201d and a \u201cwonderful role model,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/584816-ben-affleck-republicans-want-to-dodge-the-consequences-for?rl=1\">report<\/a> from <em>The Hill<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The virtual fundraiser, which also featured ABC\u2019s <em>Black-ish<\/em> star Tracee Ellis Ross, was organized to support&nbsp;\u201cthe fight to end gerrymandering and defend voting rights across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19052210\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP12061408015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19052210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP12061408015.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clinton has recently attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/07\/hillary-clinton-claims-election-integrity-bills-are-move-toward-white-supremacist-authoritarianism\/\">portray<\/a>&nbsp;Republican-led voter integrity bills in several states as a gateway to \u201cwhite supremacist authoritarianism,\u201d while Holder&nbsp;has openly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/15\/eric-holder-coronavirus-an-opportunity-to-permanently-change-americas-voting-system\/\">pushed<\/a> for Democrats to use the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to permanently alter the way Americans vote, including more mail-in voting.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Affleck praised Hillary Clinton at the event, reportedly&nbsp;calling her an \u201cextraordinary person\u201d and a \u201cwonderful role model.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Clinton replied: \u201cI hope somebody recorded that introduction. Because you know, when days are hard, I\u2019m just gonna listen to it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">first time seeing hillary and ben affleck interact and i love it. <\/p>\n<p>(it\u2019s the way she made him blush and everyone laugh for me) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3yqMopiqB5\">pic.twitter.com\/3yqMopiqB5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 diane-jefferson (@dianejeffersonc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dianejeffersonc\/status\/1468607944770134019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Affleck used Tuesday\u2019s fundraiser to go on the offensive against the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Good Will Hunting<\/em> star reportedly said Republican action \u201cleads to a sense of voters not feeling like their vote counts, and in some cases they may well be justified in that feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt leads to hyperpartisan politics,\u201d he added, \u201cwhere special interests rule and party extremists are incentivized instead of common sense and finding common ground and compromise, and a lot of this we\u2019re seeing in our country today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also inveighed against Republicans who \u201cwant to dodge the consequences for their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. 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Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Ben Affleck reportedly accused Republicans of using gerrymandering to subvert the democratic process and to \u201cdodge the consequences of their actions\u201d during an appearance at a virtual fundraiser headlined &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}