Taylor Swift in Harris will it make a difference soon after kamla Harris and Donald Trump left the Philadelphia stage following the United States presidential debate musician Taylor Swift threw her support behind Harris Swift posted a picture of herself and her pet cat on Tuesday night with a lengthy caption explaining why she will be voting for Democrat Harris and her running mate Tim Walls the endorsement came after months of fevered speculation over whether and when Swift arguably the biggest name in the world of Music would publicly pick a candidate in the US election but could Swift's support really make a difference and bring more votes to Harris here's more about the role of celebrity endorsements in US elections in the caption of her Instagram post on Tuesday Swift began by saying she watched the debate urging her 284 million followers to do their research on the key issues and candidates before the November 5th election as a v as a voter I make sure to watch and read everything I can about their proposed policies she wrote to then expressed fears around the misuse of artificial intelligence to spread misinformation in August Trump on his online platform truth social posted AI generated images of Swift and her fans hearing to endorse Trump some of these AI deep fakes showed her fans wearing t-shirts with the text swifties for Trump these images caused Swift to conclude she needed to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter she continued in her caption before declaring that she would be voting for Harris and walls she added that she was heartened by Harris's choice of walls as her vice presidential candidate because of his long advocacy for IVF and a woman's right to her own body she signed off as childless cat lady a Ry nod to Trump's running mate JD Vance who had previously used the phrase to describe a emerging leaders within the Democratic party including Harris while some polls show that people say they are not influenced by celebrity indorsements nonprofits and other organizations have reported increased voter participation after celebrities weigh in on a political race according to a study by Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of government that was published in August an example of this is Swift herself in September 2023 she sent out a post urging her followers to register themselves as voters on vote.org after this the nonpartisan nonprofit organization recorded more than 35,000 voter registration while it was unclear how many of these registrations came from Swift fans vote.org reported a 1,226 per increase in participation in the hour after Swift's post according to the Harvard study directing fans to register as voters is a common call to action among celebrity celebrities in 201 20 YouTube vlogger David dri and in 2022 model and socialite Haley Bieber ran online campaigns urging their followers to verify their voter registration status both Campa