Rick Steves Endorses Kamala Harris for President

Beloved travel expert and TV personality Rick Steves is supporting Kamala Harris for president.

Steves, known for his long-standing public television show “Rick Steves’ Europe,” initially touted the “stability” a Harris presidency would bring in a September post — saying he longs “for the day when we can return to healthy and principled partisan debates,” but added this election is different. 

“As a traveler, I’m both a proud American and a citizen of the world, and I’ve got a few thoughts for this coming election: the world needs not the chaos of Trump, but the stability of Kamala Harris. It needs American leadership within the family of nations as we effectively confront the challenges of the future,” Steves said in his first video posted to X. “That’s why I’m voting blue and I hope you will too.”

Steves, followed his initial endorsement with a new video posted a video from Berlin on Tuesday talking about fascism and Adolf Hitler’s history of arresting political opponents after taking power in Germany in the 1930s. Last year, former President Donald Trump vowed he wouldn’t be a dictator if reelected “other than day one,” according to The Associated Press.

“Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jewish citizens, but his political opponents,” Steves wrote in a post on X. “So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them ‘very long sentences,’ I can’t help but take him seriously… because history teaches us that is what fascist dictators do during their ‘Day One’ period to consolidate their power.”

Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 5, and voters can find their designated polling location as well as potential early voting polling locations through Vote.org.

Steves recently revealed his prostate cancer diagnoses and said in early October he had a successful surgery.