American singer and pop culture icon Taylor Swift has millions of fans and perhaps a quarter of a billion followers on Instagram. And he has a huge influence on all of them. People were therefore looking to see if this time he would comment on the candidates for the American presidency and support one of them. Less than an hour after she said she saw Tuesday’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the singer announced publicly that she would be voting for the Democratic candidate. “I did my research and decided,” Swift wrote in contribution.
The 34-year-old singer called Kamala Harris a gifted leader who will benefit the United States more with her calm than the chaos of Donald Trump. She also praised her choice of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz. “I was very encouraged and amazed by her choice of candidate @timwalz who has been advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF and a woman’s right to her own body for decades,” wrote the celebrity whose comments on the election have been eagerly awaited by fans in recent weeks.
At the end of August shared Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social network in which he suggested that Taylor Swift would support him in the upcoming election. Swift herself appeared in a series of shared images, but her photo was generated by artificial intelligence. In addition, the singer was depicted in the style of the famous Uncle Sam, even with a characteristic text: “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump.”
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Trump wrote on the post that he accepts her support, but the singer has not commented on the case since then. She neither confirmed that she really supported Trump nor refuted his words. She only did that now. “It made me worry about artificial intelligence and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It has led me to conclude that as a voter I need to be very transparent about my true plans for this election. The easiest way to fight misinformation is the truth.” wrote Swift in a post in which she distanced herself from false support for the Republican candidate and instead expressed sympathy for the Democrats.
In addition, she signed her statement not only as Taylor Swift, but also as Childless Cat Ladythat is A childless cat lady. She was reacting to Trump’s vice presidential candidate JD Vance, who in 2021 marked the then and current Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democratic politicians for “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable”.
The singer’s decision to speak out about the upcoming election is not too much of a surprise. Already in 2020, Swift announced that she would vote for Joe Biden. She shared then a photo of him smiling while holding a plate of cookies with the Democrat logo.
Although at the beginning of her career she was based on political impartiality, in recent years she regularly speaks out on topics that are obviously important to her. These include queer rights, gun regulation, and criticism of racial injustice. It was these priorities that she appreciated both in the previous Democratic candidate and in Kamala Harris.
Only on Instagram is Taylor Swift, who was tagged by an American weekly last year Time for personality of the year, 283 million followers. For her fans, nicknamed swifties, she is almost an idol and her every expression has great weight.
Recent surveys moreover, they suggest that one of the reasons why Kamala Harris has improved in preferences over Trump in recent weeks is her support from young Americans. In her post, the singer now, among other things, called on her fans to take an active interest in politics and not be indifferent to the events around them. “If you haven’t already done so, now is a good time to do some research on the issues at hand and the candidates’ positions on the issues that matter most to you.” Swift urged.
She did the same thing last year when she encouraged her followers to register to vote. At the time, she posted a link to the website of the non-profit organization Vote.org on her Instagram stories, which soon she noted over 35 thousand new registrations. It can therefore be expected that even the singer’s current political activity will have an influence on the upcoming presidential elections in the United States.
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