Pop megastar Taylor Swift shortly endorsed Kamala Harris on Tuesday after her buoyant presidential debate efficiency towards former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Swift known as the Democratic nominee a “steady-handed, gifted leader” who could lead on the nation with calm relatively than chaos.
In a put up on Instagram, Swift advised her over 280 million followers that she’s going to vote for the U.S. vice chairman within the Nov. 5 election, within the greatest superstar endorsement but for Harris. Polls present the race basically tied between the 2 candidates.
“I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them,” Swift mentioned in her put up.
Swift was pictured along with her cat within the put up, which she signed as “childless cat lady,” in a dig at Trump’s working mate JD Vance, who in a 2021 interview known as some Democrats “a bunch of childless cat ladies.” He has since mentioned it was merely a “sarcastic remark.”
Swift additionally mentioned she was impressed by Harris’ working mate Tim Walz, who the singer described as somebody who has been standing up for sexual minority rights, “IVF and a woman’s right to her own body for decades.”
Walz, who was on air on MSNBC when the endorsement was introduced, mentioned he was “incredibly grateful” and urged the singer’s massive fan base of “Swifties” to “Get things going.”
Reproductive rights have turn into a key difficulty for voters because the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional proper to abortion two years in the past. IVF fertility therapies have additionally been pushed into the highlight since an Alabama courtroom dominated earlier this yr that frozen embryos have been individuals.
Harris, who helps abortion rights, has solid Trump as a risk to reproductive rights within the nation after he appointed Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the Roe v Wade ruling in 2022.
Trump has defended the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling however has mentioned a federal abortion ban is pointless and that the problem must be resolved on the state stage.
In August, Trump posted a faux social media picture of Swift asking individuals to vote for him within the November election.
Swift made a reference to that in her put up late on Tuesday, saying Trump’s transfer “really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation.”
She added: “It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter.”
Swift has supported Democrats prior to now and backed President Joe Biden in 2020. Her endorsement is the most recent for Harris from the leisure business. Many Hollywood actors, producers and filmmakers have mentioned they considered Harris, a local Californian, as their hometown candidate.
Harris shares a house along with her husband, Doug Emhoff, a former leisure lawyer, within the superstar enclave of Brentwood on the west aspect of Los Angeles.
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