Will.i.am compares voting for Trump to staying in an abusive relationship
Musician compared voters to people who stay with abusive partners ‘because they don’t know how to leave’
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Your support makes all the difference.Will.i.am has compared voting for Donald Trump to being in an abusive relationship.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday (3 November), the Black Eyed Peas frontman shared his fears that Trump could still beat Joe Biden, despite many voters being uncomfortable with his actions.
“That’s [like] with any abusive relationship,” he told hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid.
“There’s people that stick with their spouses and go through abuse because they don’t know how to leave. That doesn’t mean that they’re happy, they just don’t have the strength or the courage to get out and change and switch it up and have faith in something else. That’s all they know.”
The 45-year-old continued: “For the past four years, people have settled and just [taken] the embarrassment and ridiculous antics of how he behaves and how he divides and how he steers hate. Another four years of that would be detrimental for the course of America. We’re in 2020 now, by 2024 the world is totally different.”
With US voters heading to the polls today, the past few days have seen a number of celebrity figures come out in support of their chosen political candidate.
On Monday night (2 November) both Lady Gaga and Lil Pump appeared at respective Biden and Trump campaign rallies in Pennsylvania, in a final push to attract voters in the swing state.
You can read more of the celebrities supporting Trump and Biden here.
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