Will Taylor Swift Endorse Kamala Harris?
July 29, 2024
Vanity Fair – Kase Wickman
After President Joe Biden ended his campaign for reelection, the world waits to see if Miss Americana will deploy the Swifties to vote for Vice President Harris in November.
Taylor Swift is the influencer to end all influencers, able to wield her massive popularity and power effectively enough to impact economies and legislation, moviemaking practices and album release strategies. She's lent her voice in the past, to great effect, to voter registration efforts, but with the news that Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic Party nominee, will Swift endorse her in her 2024 campaign against Republican nominee Donald Trump?
Swift was named the fifth-most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2023, owing to her dominance across those various sectors and ability to influence them on the macro level, while still reaching individual people on the micro level. Harris is on the list too, and in fact outranks Swift at No. 3, but, as Forbes points out, Swift's power, speaking directly into the ears of millions, is a different flavor than Harris' “hard power" as a legislator. An endorsement from Swift would be an incomparable asset to Harris' nascent 2024 campaign.
As of July 29, a week and change after Harris went from VP to party VIP, Swift hasn't shared a formal endorsement herself, but her fans are mobilizing and coordinating with the Harris campaign apparatus anyway. Led by 22-year-old Emerald Medrano, a Latinx trans man, told The Cut that he started the Swifties for Kamala account (originally "Swifties for Harris")—which has grown rapidly across platforms and now also has a Discord channel and newsletter for its worldwide organizing efforts—after seeing echoes between his favorite singer and his candidate of choice.
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