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Social media reaction to Taylor Swift joining politics

10/10/2018
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Taylor Swift endorses Phil Bredesen in her hometown Tennessee.

Writer Kashana suggested;

Swift on Sunday endorsed Tennessee Democrats Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper. They are running for the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively.

The star said that while she had been “reluctant” to voice her political opinions in the past, “due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now.”

“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country,” Swift said. “I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. ”

 After her political endorsement, Swift was slammed by some who were not happy with her stance.

Conservative blogger Wayne Dupree took issue with the discussion being heard at all.

After being told Swift announced her opposition to Blackburn and endorsed Bredesen, Trump offered quick praise for Blackburn, who he said “is doing a very good job in Tennessee.”
And then he served Swift with a diss.
“I’m sure Taylor Swift has nothing — or doesn’t know anything about her (Blackurn),” Trump said.
And then he added, with a laugh: “Let’s say that I like Taylor’s music about 25% less now, OK?

According to Vote.org, there was a significant increase in voter registration after Taylor Swift waded into politics.

Kamari Guthrie, director of communications for the nonprofit Vote.org, told Buzzfeed that numbers had spiked both nationally and in Swift’s home state of Tennessee after the singer’s post Sunday on Instagram.
“We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period since T. Swift’s post,” Guthrie said.
For comparison’s sake, 190,178 new voters were registered via Vote.org nationwide during September and 56,669 in August. Swift suggested people visit the website.
Swift is one of the best selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums—including 27.8 million in the US—and 130 million single downloads. She has appeared in Time‘s 100 most influential people in the world (2010 and 2015) and Forbes‘ lists of top-earning women in music (2011–2015), 100 most powerful women (2015), and Celebrity-100 (2016). Her inclusion in the third of these made her the youngest woman on the list, and she ranked first in Celebrity 100.

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