For a lot of her profession, Swift largely stayed away from politics. That modified in 2018 when she endorsed Tennessee Democrat Phil Bredesen in his Senate race in opposition to Marsha Blackburn, who was a Republican congresswoman on the time. In a prolonged Instagram post, Swift mentioned that, prior to now, she’d “been reluctant to publicly voice” her political views however that, “resulting from a number of occasions in my life and on the earth prior to now two years, I really feel very otherwise about that now.”
“I at all times have and at all times will solid my vote primarily based on which candidate will defend and struggle for the human rights I consider all of us deserve on this nation,” Swift mentioned.
Bredesen misplaced the race to Blackburn within the pink state, however Swift spoke extra about her choice to publicly endorse Democrats in her 2020 documentary “Miss Americana,” during which she revealed regrets about not talking out in opposition to Trump in 2016. Within the documentary, Swift is informed by her workforce that her endorsement of Bredesen may make the general public consider she’s condemning Trump.
“I don’t care in the event that they write that,” Swift says. “I’m unhappy I didn’t say it two years in the past.”
Brennan Suen, deputy director of exterior affairs at left-leaning accountability outlet Media Issues, mentioned that whereas Swift loved “years and years of reward” for not talking about politics, conservative pundits now look like making an attempt to get her to “shut up and sing once more” by whipping up their base right into a frenzy to scare Swift away from making an endorsement.
Fox Information’s Tomi Lahren, for instance, mentioned on Monday that if Swift “wished to be protecting of her legacy, she’d keep out of politics.”
