[Music] minutes after the presidential debate ended came the moment that everyone has been waiting for the Taylor Swift finally decided to endorse KLA Harris with 55 days to go till the election Taylor Swift put out a post on Instagram and said she is voting for kamla Harris because she fights for the rights and causes that she believes need a warrior to Champion them Swift went on to call Harris A steady-handed Gifted leader and in a dig at Donald Trump Swift said we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos in a mic drop moment her post was accompanied by a photograph of her with a cat and she signed off by referring to herself as a childless cat lady which was a snap to Trump's running m j Vance and his now Infamous remark made in 2021 in 2020 Taylor Swift shared her first ever public endorsement of a presidential candidate fire a plate of Biden Harris frosted sugar cookies before the singer had made her choice clear for the 2024 race her supporters who are known as swifties had been mobilizing in the 2024 election cycle swifties for Harris hashtags and communities had been flooding social media shortly after Biden's exit from the race and a subsequent endorsement of Harris they raised more than $138,000 for the Democratic candidate hi this is Tim it's KLA Harris good morning Governor good morning Madam vice president when kamla Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim wals as her running mate swifties got even more excited wals had got a seal of approval from them earlier this year when he signed into law house file 1989 or the Taylor Swift Bill the new law mandates that ticket sellers disclose all fees upfront and it prohibits resellers from selling multiple copies of the same ticket the bill was introduced after walz's frustration over not being able to buy tickets for Swift's era store in Minneapolis he posted about it in a very cat forward manner which Taylor Swift would have approved while endorsing Harris Swift gave a shout out to wals and acknowledged that he has been standing up for lgbtq plus rights IVF and a woman's right to her own body for decades the superstar has criticized Trump in the past slamming his efforts to dismantle the US Post Office and his record on racism and had called for voting him out during the Super Bowl in February many farite Republicans called s and Travis Kel's relationship fake the NFL game rigged and a win by Kel's Kansas City Chiefs aoy to get President Joe Biden reelected but by June Trump himself appeared to be quoting a swift endorsement in a book on his old reality TV show The Apprentice Trump wrote I think she's very beautiful actually unusually beautiful I think she's liberal she probably doesn't like Trump I hear she's very talented then the former president posted screenshots from social media accounts that depict women wearing swifties for Trump teas and him writing I accept but a majority of the pictures appear to be generated by artificial intelligence this was flagged by Swift herself in her statement backing Harris she said the AI generated images made her realize that she needs to be very transparent about her plans as a voter and combat misinformation with the truth many celebrities like singers John Legend and Olivia Rodrigo actor George Clooney and director Spike Lee have endorsed kamla Harris but Taylor Swift stands apart she has doubled the number of followers across Instagram Tik Tok and X as the total votes cast in the 2020 US presidential election her influence has driven Mass voter registrations in the past a beacon Center poll done in April on Swift's political clout showed that 37% of registered Tennessee voters are her fans and of these 12% would more likely vote for a swift endorse candidate for the 2023 National voting Day Taylor Swift encouraged her then 200 72 million Instagram followers to register to vote through nonpartisan group vote.org there was 115% increase in voter registrations from 18year Olds compared to the year before but Taylor Swift's advocacy had rarely gone beyond getting young people to register to vote she expressed horror over the recent mass stabbing at a swift themed dance Workshop in Southport England and later met survivors of the attack but she hasn't publicly acknowledged the war in Gaza after the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn RI waade Swift posted that she was terrified that this is where we are but apart from that she's been very relatively politically silent celebrity endorsements don't typically move election needles a lot in America actors singers sport Stars often express political views but there isn't much evidence to show that they are decisive for many voters but Taylor Swift is not just another celebrity she is a cultural monolith and her endorsement will undoubtedly have an impact on the election ction