The political satirical comedy series Veep has predicted some of the chaos of the upcoming 2024 election, in particular, the president stepping down from reelection and the vice president taking his place.
The political landscape shifted dramatically on Sunday when President Joe Biden, citing a desire to pass the torch to a new generation of leadership, dropped out of the race and threw his full support behind Kamala Harris.
Now a number of X users (formerly Twitter) have said that Veep—which starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Vice President Selina Meyer who ultimately wins the nomination and the presidency—directly mirrors what is happening in the news right now. Harris released a statement following Biden's announcement, expressing her intention to earn and win the Democrat nomination.
Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for HBO, which aired Veep from 2012 to 2019, for comment on Monday.
In one clip posted to X by Sahil Kapur, the senior national political reporter for NBC News, Meyer announces to her team that the president isn't going to run for a second term.
"I'm not leaving; POTUS is leaving. He's not going to run for a second term. I'm gonna run. I'm gonna run for president," Meyer says as her team celebrates.
"I did not see that coming," one member of her team says, while another adds: "Leader Meyer, team Veep on fire, bam!"
"Woo! Let's go to the f****** moon," Anna Chlumsky, playing Amy Brookheimer, says.
"Veep is a documentary," Kapur captioned the video. At the time of writing, his post has been viewed almost 2 million times.
Emma Vigeland, co-host of the daily political show The Majority Report, republished Kapur's post and added: "Kamala Harris is going to take a picture with Julia Louis-Dreyfus at some fundraiser and the campaign will tweet it out with a Veep-related caption. We'll fully be back in Obama-era liberal cringe mode and it will feel like a warm blanket." Vigeland's post had been viewed more than 622,000 times at the time of writing.
Writer Sophie Ross shared a different clip of the comedy show to X, in which Meyer is talking to Tony Hale's character, Gary Walsh, her personal assistant.
"Um, I'm going to be president," Meyer whispers while the two stand in a bathroom.
Ross captioned the post: "Will literally never get over the fact that we're living through the plot of Veep in real time." Her post has been viewed more than 156,000 times.
It seems HBO is aware of the fact the show has mirrored real-life events; author Brian Stelter shared a screenshot of the HBO Max homepage, which was promoting Veep.
"Brilliant work by the programmers at MAX, putting VEEP at the top of the app tonight," Stelter wrote on X; his post has been viewed over 257,000 times.
Others simply commented on the similarity between the show and real life, with NBC News reporter Kat Tenbarge writing: "We're officially in the Veep timeline."
This isn't the first time that Veep has seemingly predicted the future, after showing the protesters at the count centers following the 2020 presidential election.
The 2016 episode titled "Nev-AD-a" follows campaign staffers in Carson City, Nevada, hoping a recount will go statewide in an effort to win Louis-Dreyfus' character the presidency. The fictional presidential candidate has won the popular vote but needs Nevada's electoral votes. Meyer demands a recount in the belief it will help her swing the election.
This mimicked real-life events that happened in 2020 when Trump supporters were chanting "count the votes" in Arizona while demanding "stop the count" in Michigan.
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