Lena Dunham says her support for Hillary Clinton has unleashed 'hostility' from Sanders supporters

Actress Lena Dunham faces negative repercussions as a result of her support for Hillary Clinton.
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Actress Lena Dunham said Sunday she has received more backlash for her outspoken support of Hillary Clinton from fellow Democrats than from Republicans.

"I have received more hostility for voting for a qualified female candidate than I have ever received anywhere from the American right wing," she said at a Clinton fundraiser. "The fact that other members of the Democratic Party have spoken to me like I was an ill-informed child for voting for someone who represents everything I think this country should be is outrageous."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.