Taylor Swift endorsement of Kamala Harris: It wasn't as picture-perfect as you think.
SlateThis election season, Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris managed to simultaneously be both the most inevitable thing in the world and a huge nagging question. On Tuesday night, we finally got our resolution: Swift officially endorsed Harris right after Harris’ first debate with Donald Trump, via a post on her Instagram account. Explaining why she is voting for Harris, Swift wrote, “I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.” She also praised vice presidential candidate Tim Walz for his record of “standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman’s right to her own body.” She encouraged her followers to do their own research, register to vote, and vote early, before signing the post, “With love and hope, Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady,” a pointed reference to Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Sen. J.D. Swift and her publicist, Tree Paine, are known for being strategic about these things, and it As inevitable as it felt to many of us that Swift would eventually endorse Harris, it’s striking how much effort she put into sounding like nothing about this was guaranteed: She emphasizes that she did her research and voters should too, and she gives the impression that it took Trump’s A.I.