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‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Backs Harris, Suggests ‘Your Favorite’ Winner Does, Too

The show’s longtime former host, the late Alex Trebek, once said Trump would be a horrible contestant.

Who is Vice President Kamala Harris? That’s the game show appropriate answer to popular Jeopardy! champ James Holzhauer’s choice in the 2024 presidential election. Holzhauer, who has the second most winnings and the fifth most consecutive games won in the long-running quiz show’s history, tweeted Tuesday that, “Your favorite Jeopardy champ wants you to vote for Kamala Harris.” He then joked that he was not referring to himself—“I also want you to vote for Kamala Harris”—suggesting, whoever the readers favorite Jeopardy! winner is, they support the Democratic nominee for president. “Do it for both of us,” Holzhauer added. Harris’ Republican opponent, former president Donald Trump, proposed the construction of a National Garden of Heroes in the dying days of his presidency that would have included a statue of Alex Trebek, the Canadian-born longtime Jeopardy! host, who died in 2020. The politically moderate Trebek, meanwhile, said in 2018 that the falsehood-blathering Trump would be a terrible contestant on the show: “He might not agree that any of the correct responses are correct.”

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