Taylor Swift came out in support of the Harris-Walz ticket in an Instagram post last week, citing LGBT rights, abortion, and IVF access as her motivations. The post amassed over 11 million likes on the platform.
Recent polling revealed that her endorsement may have had the opposite consequences of what she intended.
While the vast majority of those polled asserted that Taylor Swift's endorsement had no effect on how they would vote, more people expressed that they were less likely to vote for Kamala Harris following the pop star's Instagram post.
The New York Post reports:
A new post-debate poll from YouGov released Saturday found that 8% of voters said the pop superstar's nod is either “somewhat” or “much more likely” to convince them to cast their ballot for the Democrat.
But a whopping 20% said they are “somewhat” or “much less likely” to vote for former President Donald Trump's opponent now that Swift has spoken.
Liberal media fawned over the endorsement.
On an MSNBC panel with Rachel Maddow and Joy Ann Reid, Lawrence O'Donnell said, “This is, I think, the most important celebrity endorsement we've ever seen in a presidential campaign — especially because it is so close, and it can make that kind of difference. The Harris for President campaign now has the two most perfectly timed and most important endorsements of this campaign…this, about 27 minutes after the debate. And it's so important, I think, to the people that are going to be consuming that Taylor Swift endorsement — including those fathers of eight year old girls, that she said ‘I watched the debate, I didn't decide this yesterday, this is a new candidate for all of us, and so I watched a more than 90 minute debate, I watched this candidate against the other candidate, and I thought about it and here I am'…the timing on it is absolutely exquisite. The wording of it is flawless and perfect right down to the cat lady stuff. For someone who's never been impressed by a celebrity endorsement this is perfect and powerful.”
While both the public and the media largely agree that Kamala Harris won her first debate with Donald Trump, it hasn't seemed to have the effect that Democrats were hoping for.
The New York Post continues:
Overall, while 46% of people thought Harris won the debate to 19% for Trump, just 6% said it caused them to reconsider their vote, while 76% said it has not, according to YouGov.
After the debate, Donald Trump gained ground with independents. While many admitted that they believe Kamala Harris won on a surface level, they expressed a lack of satisfaction with the substance of her answers, contending they still didn't have a solid understanding of her policy, and they trusted Trump more on pressing issues like the economy and immigration in spite of his performance. People also expressed disapproval of the moderators' behavior, and felt that they had behaved inappropriately and showed bias towards Kamala Harris.
