Can Hollywood save Joe Biden?

With just under six months to go until the 2024 election, President Joe Biden has his work cut out for him in his bid for another four years in the White House.

He is trailing his likely Republican rival, former president Donald Trump, in five of six swing states. Young voters and non-white voters in particular are moving away from the president, according to polls. Gaza, the accompanying protests, and the economy have proven powerful in tearing previous Democratic voters away from the sitting president — especially in those all-important “blue wall” states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

So, in the hopes of shoring up support among voters who are far more skeptical of him after four years as president, Biden is turning on a familiar Democratic tap — and looking to Tinseltown for answers.

There’s a long history of politicians in Washington, DC — or “Hollywood for ugly people,” as it’s often dubbed — showing off support from the stars, going back as far as then-president John F Kennedy’s friendship with singer and actor Frank Sinatra.

And in recent months, a steady stream of Hollywood A-listers have flowed through the White House, as well as popping up around the re-election campaign for Biden and Harris at fundraisers and on social media.

Mark Hamill, who played jedi master Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, appeared behind the lectern at the White House briefing room earlier this month to mark the unofficial Star Wars-related holiday celebrated on May 4th (because “May the Fourth” sounds like the first three words in that film series’ famous salutation, “May the Force Be With You”). Hamill called Biden “the most legislatively successful president in my lifetime,” a remark that was later broadcast on the president’s