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Endorsing Kamala Harris Might Have Been the Worst Career Move Taylor Swift Has Ever Made
PJ Media ^ | September 29, 2024 | Rick Moran

Posted on 09/29/2024 2:38:16 PM PDT by Red Badger

Taylor Swift has been at the top of the pop music charts for over 15 years. That's an eternity in show business.

It's no accident. Swift's rise to superstardom was as carefully planned as a military campaign. Her studio recordings, her songwriting, her tours, her public appearances, and her advocacy have all been carefully structured to give her maximum exposure with minimum risk.

Until she endorsed Kamala Harris for president.

Swift transcended pop music to become an American icon. Her Harris endorsement has now squandered that precious admiration and goodwill and, for the first time in her hugely successful career, she has stumbled.

It's not a big stumble, to be sure. But the Harris endorsement has opened the door to criticism and in show business, where everyone is waiting to pounce on any error you make and tear you down, it was a strategic mistake.

"Who's afraid of little old me? Republicans," Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, the Democratic pollster who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies, said of Swift. "Her personal ratings have dropped from +2 to -35 among Republicans."

"A good lesson that it's better to be a tortured poet than a tortured figure in the political arena," Horwitt continued.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: kamala; music; swift; taylor; taylorswift
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To: Red Badger

Hopefully all the swifties parents who are conservative STOP paying for overly expensive tickets to hear trash sing about bad choices!


21 posted on 09/29/2024 2:55:03 PM PDT by bantam
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To: Red Badger

Taylor Swift has entered the fat Elvis phase of her career. In a few years, she’ll be wandering the streets like Delta Dawn looking for a dark haired man.


22 posted on 09/29/2024 2:55:12 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Red Badger
She endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and baked 'Biden 2020' cookies. Why is anyone surprised by this?


23 posted on 09/29/2024 2:55:44 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Red Badger

So? This is Like all of her life decisions,


24 posted on 09/29/2024 2:56:56 PM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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To: Yo-Yo

I was just doing some wish-fulfilment.


25 posted on 09/29/2024 2:59:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Red Badger

She should double down, remove all doubt.


26 posted on 09/29/2024 2:59:20 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Mark

I’d rather see her pay 100 💯 million a year.


27 posted on 09/29/2024 2:59:53 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger
Until she endorsed Kamala Harris for president.

May she crash and burn.

Taylor Swift, too.

28 posted on 09/29/2024 3:02:05 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: jmacusa

She used the guys she dated to make songs hating on guys. Shes made her career on misandry and airing her dirty laundry to music, (also one sided only getting her side of the story).


29 posted on 09/29/2024 3:02:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

Who ?


30 posted on 09/29/2024 3:05:04 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

“Republicans buy sneakers too.”

-Michael Jordan


31 posted on 09/29/2024 3:06:04 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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Young girls learning about the political ugly in life. Young boys had to confront this decades ago, and still do.

“shut up and sing”


32 posted on 09/29/2024 3:06:22 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Red Badger

I’ve heard of her a lot in the news, but I’m not familiar with any of her songs (if you see any of my music posts, it’s obvious why).


33 posted on 09/29/2024 3:06:45 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Red Badger

She will go back to being hated by more people now. She was mocked a lot until she opened her big ugly mouth as a Trump hater, then her popularity grew.


34 posted on 09/29/2024 3:08:47 PM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: Red Badger

Paula Abdul was LEAGUES above her (Swift) crap.


35 posted on 09/29/2024 3:09:26 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Trump20162020
She endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and baked 'Biden 2020' cookies. Why is anyone surprised by this?

This time around there's just something so uncool about endorsing Harris, especially when you have Taylor's friends like Brittany Mahomes who aren't afraid to click "like" on Trump's tweets and singer Lana Del Ray marrying a Trump-supporting Louisiana swamp boat captain.

36 posted on 09/29/2024 3:10:26 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: maro
<>To paraphrase Michael Jordan, Republicans buy shoes too.<>

Swift made a billion-dollar mistake.

Oh well, she has the comfort of knowing she "did the right thing." /s

I read that Nike debuted Air Jordans in 1985 and they remain the company's top selling sneaker.

So yeah, just STFU over political matters and let your customers keep you rich.

37 posted on 09/29/2024 3:14:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: ansel12
She just introduced some serious rust into her powerful image machine.

I don't think so. Her fans are not deep thinkers. She is turning off people who have no interest in her to begin with.

I don't see this as hurting her career in the least. That's just wishful thinking

38 posted on 09/29/2024 3:15:15 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: Trump20162020

Drag Queen says what?


39 posted on 09/29/2024 3:17:48 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Red Badger

Not-so-Swift. Now Kelce has to unpussywhip himself.


40 posted on 09/29/2024 3:17:56 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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