Olivia Wilde to Campaign for Her Mom in Congressional Race

There's no secret who is Olivia Wilde's favorite candidate in Virginia's 5th District House race. Wilde will be campaigning to help her mom, Leslie Cockburn, win the election. Read on for details.

Via The Hollywood Reporter.

Olivia Wilde, who in September 2016 announced that she was pregnant with a baby girl as a way to show her allegiance to then-presidential candidate Hilary Clinton with the hashtag #NeverTrump, will be back on the campaign trail this fall – and she’s keeping it in the family again.

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Monday can’t fuck with this caffeine high. #tap

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Wilde told The Hollywood Reporter in Toronto that she will be backing her mother, Leslie Cockburn, as she vies for a Congressional seat in Virginia. “I’m really inspired by her because she’s pivoting from a 35-year-long career in journalism to politics and to do that at 66 years old is so inspiring,” Wilde said.

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Happy birthday to my brilliant, beautiful, badass mother, who always chooses the path less taken, especially if it leads to a super long, strenuous hike up hill, and isn’t actually a “path” because those are boring and she’d rather off-road. She’s running for Congress in VA this year because she’s brave as hell, and genuinely gives an F about this country. The world is better because she’s here. HBD @leslieforcongress !!! 🎈

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“And I love the idea that you can continue to evolve as you get older and wiser. I just directed my first film and we were on these parallel paths of doing something new, breaking new ground simultaneously. And we would call each other and check in and say, how’s it going? The stress is unbearable but it’s the most fulfilling feeling I’ve ever. Great, me too. Go!’ “

Cockburn, running as the 2018 Democratic nominee for Virginia’s 5th district in the U.S. House of Representatives, is a former investigative journalist and Emmy winning producer who, according to her official website, served as a producer for CBS’ 60 Minutes, a correspondent for PBS’ Frontline and as a Ferris Professor of Journalist at Princeton. She made headlines earlier this summer for alleging in a tweet that her Republican opponent, Denver Riggleman, has a collection of “Bigfoot erotica” that is associated to books that he has published on the mythical creature including the tome Mating Habits of Bigfoot.

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