Will Taylor Swift endorse Kamala Harris? Swifties are already leaping into action

She was named Person of the Year by Time in 2023; a pop star with the power to impact a country’s economy and shatter all manner of industry records. But, Taylor Swift’s fans wonder, will she lend that influence to the looming US election?

Many of them have already leapt into action to get vice president Kamala Harris elected, following the news that president Joe Biden was dropping out of the 2024 race.

“I feel like us US Swifties should mass organise 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,” Emerald Medrano, a Latinx trans man, wrote in a post on X/Twitter, the day that Biden dropped out.

“Like if we don't want democracy to end we really need to move and push blue votes.”

Now, Swifties for Kamala is a thousands-strong community working to encourage fellow fans to register to vote, particularly in the three states Swift will perform in shortly before Election Day – Florida, Louisiana and Indiana – all of which went Republican in 2020.

“Harris is a very intelligent and powerful woman; she’s a trailblazer,” Medrano told The Cut, explaining the parallels he sees between the Democratic nominee and his favourite pop star.

“The way she has opened doors and also takes care of the people who come after her through that door reminds me in a lot of ways of Taylor and the ways she cares about people in the music industry.

“I really love that connection between them. Harris also makes me feel that she cares about me – my rights and my identity. This is someone I wanna vote for.”

Swift, 34, has yet to endorse a candidate in this year’s election. She was notoriously quiet about her political leanings – supposedly out of fear of