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Paul Rudd hands out water to voters waiting in line in Pennsylvania
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Paul Rudd hands out water to voters waiting in line in Pennsylvania

Paul Rudd paid a surprise visit to voters waiting in line on election day.

During a MSNBC brotherAiring Tuesday, the actor was spotted by NBC News national and political correspondent Jacob Soboroff handing out bottles of water to voters waiting in line at Temple University in Pennsylvania.

“I just wanted to give people some water,” Rudd said. “They’ve been waiting in line for a long time and it’s a wonderful thing that all these young people went out to vote.”

After Soboroff noted that voters had been waiting for two hours, Rudd congratulated them and said it was “impressive.”

“When you heard that, did you immediately say, ‘I have to come here.’ I have to reach this line? Soboroff asked the actor, to which Rudd responded, “We did a lot today here in Pennsylvania. We wanted to tell these students that they are doing very good things.

When Soboroff asked Rudd what he thought about the election, Rudd laughed and replied, “I feel good about handing out water.” »

Following the surprise spotting, Soboroff then joked about X that he “didn’t say the words ‘Paul Rudd just showed up’ on my @msnbc bingo card tonight.”

In addition to Rudd, other celebrities reportedly Facetiming other election lines across the country, including Jennifer Garner of Villanova University, Josh Gad of Lehigh University, Mark Cuban of the University of Carolina North to Charlotte and Demi Lovato from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

It was also not the first time Rudd made a surprise visit to voters. In 2020, the Ant Man The star approached voters queuing at New York’s Barclays Center to give them cookies while thanking them for taking the time to vote. At the time, voters had to wait in line while it was raining outside.

“Hey look at us, who would have thought…we’d be enjoying cookies with Paul Rudd after voting in BK,” the official Barclays Center X account wrote in 2020 while sharing photos of Rudd with voters.