Did Harambe help Donald Trump win the election?

Poke Staff. Updated November 9th, 2016

In the wake of yesterday’s US presidential election there’s a lot of finger pointing and blaming – and an unexpected target is Harambe, the gorilla from the Cincinnati Zoo that was shot after a child fell into his enclosure.

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This is due to a quirk of the American election system when voters are allowed to “write in” candidates who aren’t officially running for the top job when they go to the polls. And thanks to a Twitter rumour suggesting between 11-15 thousand people wrote “Harambe” on their ballot papers, people are furious that this might have tipped the election in favour of Trump.

holy shit guys

1933: King Kong shot rescuing woman
1933: Adolf Hitler elected

2016: Harambe shot rescuing child
2016: Donald Trump elected

— wheels (@wheelswordsmith) November 9, 2016

is this because of harambe

— Aus Gov Just Googled (Not Really) (@GovGoogles) November 9, 2016

https://twitter.com/zachbraff/status/796239719008849920

https://twitter.com/danielxmiller/status/796245039089233920

https://twitter.com/aidenbiz/status/796228389765988352

https://twitter.com/csydelko/status/796223990029119488

#HARAMBE had 11,000 votes. That's right 11,000 of you dumbassss actually went through with it. Congrats. #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/KuOroaIfd9

— catnip (@MrCatnipp) November 9, 2016

Democracy and shitty, tired old memes for the win!

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