Taylor Swift endorses 'warrior' Kamala Harris for president

Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris for president conscionable moments aft the extremity of her statesmanlike statement against Donald Trump.

In an Instagram station connected Tuesday night, the popular prima said she had done her "research".

"I volition beryllium casting my ballot for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz successful the 2024 Presidential Election," she said. "I’m voting for @kamalaharris due to the fact that she fights for the rights and causes I judge request a warrior to champion them."

Swift went connected to telephone Harris a "steady-handed, talented leader".

"I judge we tin execute truthful overmuch much successful this state if we are led by calm and not chaos," she wrote.

Swift announced the quality alongside a photograph of her with a feline and signed it "Childless Cat Lady", a notation to comments made by Donald Trump's vice-presidential campaigner JD Vance.

The Ohio legislator has faced a backlash from a 2021 clip successful which helium called respective salient Democrats - including Harris - "a clump of childless feline ladies who are miserable astatine their ain lives".

Swift went connected to compliment Harris’s prime of vice-presidential candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who she said had been “been lasting up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman’s close to her ain assemblage for decades”.

The vocalist said she was successful portion motivated to stock her voting determination with the nationalist aft an AI representation of her falsely endorsing Trump was posted connected his website.

"It truly conjured up my fears astir AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation," she said. "It brought maine to the decision that I request to beryllium precise transparent astir my existent plans for this predetermination arsenic a voter."

Swift is 1 of respective celebrities to endorse Harris, including singers John Legend and Olivia Rodrigo, histrion George Clooney and manager Spike Lee.

Former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan, TV prima Amber Rose and billionaire Elon Musk has endorsed Trump.

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