White Dudes for Harris

The more than three-hour-long online call saw actors Mark Hamill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sean Astin and Josh Gad among the men expressing support for Vice President Harris’s presidential bid, alongside ’N Sync star Lance Bass and a host of Democrat politicians.

Most notable among the celebrities was a man introduced as the “dude in chief,” actor Jeff Bridges, who played The Dude in “The Big Lebowski,” released in 1998, and joked: “I qualify … I’m White, I’m a dude and I’m for Harris.”

Attendees expressed enthusiasm and excitement for the campaign — while also joking about the lack of diversity on the call. “What a variety of Whiteness we have here … it’s like a rainbow of beige!” actor Bradley Whitford of “The West Wing” told the group. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) teased that a White Dudes gathering “doesn’t usually sound like something I would join, but this is a terrific cause.”

During his speech, Bridges paid homage to Black Women for Harris for inspiring a wave of copycat fundraising calls. “Kamala is so certainly our girl … a woman president, man, so exciting! And her championing of women’s rights, I’m for that, and for all her stance on the environment.”

Bridges also managed to work in his character’s catchphrase in “The Big Lebowski,” quipping at one point: “As the Dude might say: That’s just my opinion, man.”