Shonda Rhimes visits Macon, encourages community to vote

"If I wrote it, you guys wouldn’t watch it and that's because we have a really dangerous problem and his name is Donald Trump,” said Shonda Rhimes, Producer/Screenwriter.

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – With officially less than a week until Election Day, things have ramped up in Macon as officials and even celebrities are urging everyone possible to vote.

You may have seen such a celebrity with other local candidates knocking on your door on Wednesday. Shonda Rhimes, the writer of popular TV shows Scandal and Bridgerton, visited Macon and spoke at The Triangle Business Center.

She spoke about a variety of topics, from Trump to Harris to how critical the involvement of the community is.

“You know I make television,” she said. “I make a lot of television, and hopefully I make good television, but what’s happening right now in real life, it’s something I could not make up, and it can’t be solved with an hour-long drama. Like you cannot make this stuff up. If I wrote it, you guys wouldn’t watch it, and that’s because we have a really dangerous problem, and his name is Donald Trump.”

“He seems thrilled to take away a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body,” she said. “He wants to roll back our freedoms. He absolutely doesn’t seem to care about your families, and he’s sowing hate.”

Rhimes says she came to Georgia because the race is very close in the state and she feels if people see her out knocking on doors, that others will be encouraged to do the same, effectively widening the circle of voters.

“We have to do our part, and even if we can’t do our part, we need to tell at least 10 people each about what we have to do,” field organizer David James said. “We have to make sure that they’re going to vote, make sure they have a plan to vote, find out what their plan is. Let them know that they have resources. They can get rides to the polls. There is no excuses. We have taken away all excuses. We are facilitating, and if it’s not us, we have counterparts that can also do the same thing. So no excuses, and let’s do our part.”