Vampire Diaries’ Matthew Davis Apologizes After Paul Wesley VP Debate Twitter Feud

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Paul Wesley and Matthew Davis

This was not the type of The Vampire Diaries โ€œreunionโ€ that I was expecting. During Wednesday nightโ€™s (October 07, 2020) vice presidential debate former co-stars Paul Wesley and Matthew Davis exchanged some pretty heated tweets.

Davis was not happy that Mike Pence was not having enough speaking time. In since-deleted tweets, Davis suggested Pence was interrupted too much by the moderator. Calling out Pence, Wesley responded, โ€œIt would also be nice if Pence answered the question he was originally asked rather than deflecting.โ€

CW's "The Vampire Diaries" Panel - Comic-Con International 2014
โ€œThe Vampire Diariesโ€ panel during Comic-Con International 2014 at San Diego Convention Center on July 26, 2014 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Getty Images)

Things quickly escalated from there with Davis claiming, โ€œPaul likes to vote for criminals and losers, just like he did in 2016. Your opinion on the matter carries little weight as far as Iโ€™m concerned. Next.โ€ He later deleted that too.

Paul then quickly clarified, โ€œYouโ€™re mistaken! I didnโ€™t vote for Trump in 2016.โ€

Wesley tried to make a joke of things by tweeting, โ€œGuys Alaric drank some vervain heโ€™s losing it,โ€ which was a reference to the herb that characters used to protect themselves from being controlled by vampires.

While it doesnโ€™t appear that Davis has publicly endorsed Trump and Penceโ€™s reelection campaign, the actor has been retweeting tweets and videos from the president and conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. So, yeah, Davis is a Trump supporter.

Davis tweeted an apology for the Twitter spat the following morning (October 08, 2020).

Heโ€™s also apparently been getting tired of all the hate tweets heโ€™s been receiving, so he followed up again with a tweet telling Twitter users to unfollow him if they donโ€™t agree with him.

Done!