Are you “Ready for it?” because the Taylor Swift fans definitely are.
This Tuesday, “August” 27, the Swifties are looking toward the “End Game,” and are trying to elect “the 1” to push for “Change” with a Swifties for Kamala campaign that organisers think is sure to be “The Best Day” and “Better than Revenge,” hoping to not say “Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve” in November.
Swifties for Kamala, a grassroots group of Taylor Swift fans working to get Vice President Kamala Harris elected, is hosting a kickoff call on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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The virtual event will have special guest speakers, but the coalition said they don’t expect a Swift-appearance. At the time of writing, Swifties for Kamala announced Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Chris Deluzio will be on the call.
The group got its start immediately after President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election. Emerald Medrano, a 22-year-old Swiftie from Texas, decided to take action.
I feel like us U.S swifties should mass organize and help campaign for Kamala Harris and spread how horrendous project 2025 would be to help get people’s butts down to the polls in November 😭 like if we don’t want democracy to end we really need to move and push blue votes
— 🪩 eME!rald 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉 iso eras tour tickets (@hushmirrorball) July 21, 2024
“I feel like us US swifties should mass organize and help campaign for Kamala Harris and spread how horrendous Project 2025 would be to help get people’s butts down to the polls in November,” he posted.
The same day, the coalition started. Within a week, Swifties for Kamala had tens of thousands of followers on social media — the Swifties 4 Kamala TikTok account has almost 122,000 followers now.
“I began S4K because I believe in the best parts of Swifties,” Medrano said. “In our kindness, our humor, our passion. I knew that, as Swifties, we could unite and create something beautiful.”
While there are memes, like the “If you asked us on a deeper level trend” or a montage of Harris with the song “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me,” the channels are also focused on a policy mission.
Thank you for all of your support! We’re working as hard as we can to organize efficiently with hundreds of Swifties across the U.S. and will share more with you soon!
We’re coming together as a fandom because we’ve seen firsthand how effective we can be as a group. 🫶✨ pic.twitter.com/oHZNV5tMyN
— Swifties For Kamala (@Swifties4Kamala) July 22, 2024
The Swifties for Kamala substack has resources for people to become poll workers, learn “what’s at stake” with Project 2025 and sign up for phone banking. It has posted about reproductive freedom, the child tax, LGBTQ+ rights and a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Swift herself has not yet endorsed a candidate in the 2024 election, but fans expect she will soon. The singer was infamously apolitical in the past, but has become more vocal about her positions in recent years, endorsing President Joe Biden in 2020.
Former President Donald Trump falsified artificial intelligence images of Swift to endorse him. He posted to his social media pages but later told Fox Business that he didn’t know anything about the images.
In 2020, Swift accused Trump of “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism” and putting “millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to hold on to power.”
Swift restarts her Eras Tour in October, making stops in Florida, Louisiana and Indiana right before the election.
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