Sep 11, 2024 - 15:12
By huffpost.com

Watch Tim Walz React Live On TV To Taylor Swift's Endorsement

Tim Walz reacted with delight and gratitude live on MSNBC after Taylor Swift endorsed him and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election race.

The Minnesota governor was speaking to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC around the time the influential pop superstar posted her endorsement on social media.

“While we have been talking, somebody has just handed me something, and I’m going to do sort of a not-very-TV thing, and I’m going to read it to you… in totality,” Maddow told the Democrat.

“I don’t think you know about this, but this was just posted online by a woman you might have heard of whose name is Taylor Swift,” she added.

Walz listened, grinning at times, as the MSNBC host read the lengthy post. When Maddow read the line where Swift vowed to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket, he placed his hand on his heart and beamed.

Swift signed off her post as “Childless Cat Lady,” in a dig at sexist comments by Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance.

“Wow!” Walz mouthed as Maddow finished reading.

“I am incredibly grateful, first of all, to Taylor Swift. I say that also, as a cat owner, a fellow cat owner,” he said. “That was eloquent and it was clear, and that’s the type of courage we need in America to stand up.”

“We’ve seen it out of those Republicans who were at the DNC. We’ve seen it out of women who would like to have their own personal lives kept personal, but are forced to go out there because they nearly died because they can’t get abortion services in a pregnancy, and now you have somebody like Taylor Swift coming out, making that very clear,” he continued.