Will Taylor Swift support Kamala Harris?

Taylor Swift is the ultimate influencer, wielding her enormous popularity and power so effectively that she can influence economies and laws, filmmaking practices and album-release strategies. In the past, she has lent her voice, to great effect, to voter registration, but with the news that the Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic Party’s nominee, Swift will support her in her 2024 campaign against the Republican candidate Donald Trump?

In 2023, Swift was nominated by Forbes the fifth most powerful woman in the world, thanks to her dominance in those many sectors and her ability to influence them on a macro level, while reaching individuals on a micro level. Harris also makes the list, and in fact surpasses Swift in third place, but, as she points out ForbesSwift’s power, speaking directly to the ears of millions, has a different flavor than Harris’s “coercive power” as a legislator. A Swift endorsement would be an invaluable asset to Harris’s nascent 2024 campaign.

While Swift kept quiet about her political views early in her career for fear of alienating potential fans, the 2020 documentary Miss Americana showed the world the moment he broke ranks in 2018, publicly endorsing two Democratic candidates in the Tennessee midterm elections.

“I need to be on the right side of history,” he says in the documentary, grabbing his phone and preparing to press the button to post his political message on Instagramwhile his mother and agent look on nervously.

That was the first of many political actions in Swift’s public life. The singer-songwriter has proven that a flap of her proverbial butterfly wings can cause a hurricane of political awareness: In 2023, for example, she prompted nearly 32,000 voters to register after urging fans on her platforms to register in their various constituencies to make their voices heard. She has also spoken out against Trump several times, not sparing words in a tweets of 2020 in which he called him “racist” and supported the President Joe Biden in those elections, as well as in another one in which urged people to vote early and condemned the “ineffective leadership” of Donald Trump.

This time, she’s even been the center of a Republican conspiracy theory: 18% of Americans polled in February said they thought Swift might be part of a covert operation to re-elect Biden (and to rig the Super Bowl, a contest just as important, if more frequent, than a presidential election). In the same poll, 68% of respondents said they approved of her efforts to register voters. While rumors that Biden was desperate for her to help with his campaign never came true, Swift has infiltrated Trump’s household: last week, in fact, Ivanka Trump posted photos of his “favorite Swiftie’s” 13th birthday Arabellacomplete with a birthday cake inspired by Bad Blood.

That’s why the world (and especially Democratic organizers) are waiting with bated breath to see if Swift will throw her considerable cultural weight at Harris, the Democratic Party’s new great hope. An account has already been created on X (formerly Twitter) «Swifties for Harris» (though not affiliated with Swift herself), and the Swifties are ready to do their high-heeled leader’s bidding.

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