US Presidential Polls 2024: Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has expressed her enthusiasm for Taylor Swift’s endorsement in the 2024 presidential race, although she playfully acknowledged their differing loyalties during last year’s Super Bowl.
In a recent video, Kamala Harris addressed Taylor Swift‘s high-profile support for her candidacy, which the pop superstar publicly declared on September 10 after a debate with Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Harris praised Swift‘s bravery and artistry, emphasizing the impact of having such a prominent ally. “I am very proud to have the support of Taylor Swift,” Harris said, highlighting the potential influence of Swift’s voice in the upcoming election. “She’s an incredible artist, and I really respect the courage she has shown in her career to stand up for what she believes is right.”
Kamala Harris and Taylor Swift: Super Bowl Split and Political Loyalties
In a light-hearted moment, Kamala Harris referenced their Super Bowl split, quipping, “We were on different sides of the Super Bowl last year,” a nod to Swift’s support for her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs, who triumphed over Harris’ home team, the San Francisco 49ers. “But who’s mad at anyone for being loyal to their team?” she added with a grin.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have been dating for over a year, with the singer frequently attending games and proudly donning the Chiefs’ colors. Meanwhile, Kelce’s friend and star quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, has opted for neutrality in the political arena.
In contrast, Mahomes’ wife, Brittany, showed support for Trump by liking a post that highlighted his key policies. Donald Trump responded by praising Brittany as a “big MAGA fan” while also taking jabs at Swift following her endorsement of Harris.
Taylor Swift’s Support and Backlash
Taylor Swift‘s endorsement came through a detailed Instagram post where she reaffirmed her loyalty to the Democratic Party and criticized AI-generated content, taking a swipe at Republican candidate Donald Trump while labeling Harris a “warrior.”
Swift concluded her message with a playful jab of her own, signing off as a “childless cat lady,” a dig at Trump’s running mate JD Vance, who has made derogatory remarks about female politicians, including Harris.
Kamala Harris‘ campaign is also benefiting from strong support within Hollywood and among musicians, with figures like Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Katy Perry rallying behind her.
Swift’s backing has been described as the “cherry on the cake,” earning accolades from notable figures such as Hillary Clinton, Stevie Nicks, and George Clooney. However, it has also drawn criticism from MAGA supporters, including Trump’s running mate JD Vance and journalist Megyn Kelly.
As the 2024 election approaches, Harris and her campaign are actively engaging voters, leveraging celebrity endorsements to bolster their message and navigate a complex political landscape.
Mark Robinson’s big mistake with MAGA: Being afraid to own his pro-Hitler posts
It’s not like the North Carolina Republican’s posts on an adult website differ from Trump’s campaign message
Published September 21, 2024 12:34AM (EDT)
Mark Robinson, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina and candidate for Governor, delivers remarks prior to Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaking at a campaign event at Harrah’s Cherokee Center on August 14, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. (Grant Baldwin/Getty Images)
Donald Trump has turned on Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina. Axios reports that while Trump once lavished praise on the gubernatorial candidate, calling him “one of the great leaders in our country,” he now wants voters to forget he had anything to do with Robinson. The assumption across the political media is that Robinson — who has a long history of overt misogyny, loudmouthed racism, and even Holocaust denial — has become too toxic for Trump. “Trump is being weighed down by a very unpopular Republican candidate for governor,” Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff, told NewsNation a month ago.
Republicans made a last-ditch attempt to push Robinson out of the race on Thursday after CNN published a report linking Robinson to the username “minisoldr,” a Nazi-praising self-proclaimed “perv” who was a frequent poster at the adult forum Nude Africa. Certainly, by the standards of pre-MAGA politics, it’s hard to imagine someone who wrote this stuff surviving an hour politically after exposure. Robinson called himself a “black NAZI,” longed for a return to slavery, and lauded Adolph Hitler as a superior leader to then-President Barack Obama. All terrible stuff, of course. But it’s a little unclear why Republicans think it should be a career-ender for a MAGA politician. It all just sounds like a typical dinner conversation at Mar-a-Lago.
Perhaps Robinson’s big mistake is refusing to own his rancid commentary. Instead, he’s offering a denial approximately no one believes, telling CNN, “This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of me.” When reminded of the overwhelming evidence that this is, indeed him (or “we,” as he apparently calls himself), Robinson went full Trump by making up a conspiracy theory on the spot: “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.”
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There’s an alternate model offered by Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio: Instead of running away from your incendiary past comments, insist that all criticism is illegitimate nonsense from a “woke mob.” When Trump defamed Haitian immigrants during the presidential debate earlier this month, claiming they’re “eating the pets,” his campaign didn’t back down, even as the lie led to so many bomb threats it shut a huge percentage of the town down. Instead, Vance admitted that he “created” the lie on CNN, arguing that lying is a legitimate political tactic to manipulate media coverage. The campaign also tried to justify the lie, which was originally circulated by known neo-Nazis, by producing a police report of a missing cat, who turned out not to be missing at all.
That’s the usual MAGA two-step: Do or say something horrible, and when called out on it, declare yourself the victim of “cancel culture.” That’s usually enough to get the red-hatted masses to rally to your side. It’s not like Robinson’s comments on the forum differ in substance from what’s coming from the top of the ticket, even if he sometimes used more blunt language. Nor is it all that different from what Robinson has said publicly under his real name.
As CNN documented, Robinson was fond of using bigoted slurs against roughly every group imaginable, such as the f-word for gay men, anti-semitic terms, and calling Muslims “rag-headed.” These words are often unprintable, but flinging slurs is not substantively different than what Vance and Trump are doing with false accusations that Haitian immigrants are “eating the cats.” As Rachel Maddow recently explained on Stephen Colbert’s show, “The Trump-Vance campaign is taking their cues from a literal Nazi group that started this thing in Springfield.”
In everything Robinson said under his pseudonym, there’s a parallel in mainstream MAGA culture. Robinson defended slavery and wished to own slaves himself. At a Thursday congressional hearing, Mark Krikorian, a close Trump ally and contributor to Project 2025, admitted to a history of arguing that Haiti would be better off if the residents hadn’t revolted and ended slavery. Trump tends to be more oblique on this front, but he frequently works himself into a lather over defending slave-owners against those who keep saying slavery was a bad thing.
On the forum, Robinson expressed a loathing of Martin Luther King Jr. that bordered on an obsession, calling him a “commie b*stard” and longing to be in the KKK so he could attack King more robustly. This helps clarify a weird, trolling joke Trump made while endorsing Robinson, calling him “Martin Luther King on steroids.” It’s an odd thing to say publicly, but it makes a bit more sense if it’s an in-joke winking at a man who hates MLK. Trump’s campaign has hired Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk to run their “get out the vote” operation. Kirk openly denounces King, calling the assassinated civil rights leader “awful” and “not a good person.”
Trump and his acolytes have weaponized shamelessness, embracing the view that bigotry is only a scandal if you act embarrassed over having such ignorant and hateful views. As a general election strategy, it’s not as effective as they pretend, as MAGA candidates tend to underperform, compared to more staid Republican candidates. But as a way to capture the GOP base, this strategy is killer. It turns out that there’s nothing partisan Republican voters want more than permission to be loud, unapologetic jerks. It’s why Robinson won his primary and why Trump will be the GOP favorite until he dies or goes to prison.
So while it’s not surprising Robinson is digging in and refusing to drop out, it’s a little more surprising that he’s chickened out, unwilling to own his past posts. It’s not like his denials will convince any fence-sitters to vote for him, as no one could believe his nonsense excuses. But by running away from his past rhetoric, he’s bucking the expectations for GOP leadership under Trump: never back down and never apologize. If he loses in North Carolina, Robinson probably doesn’t have a future in MAGA politics.
Joe Rogan’s disparagement of the former president’s debate performance should worry the campaign.
Joe Rogan, host of the world’s most listened-to podcast, openly mocked the former president’s September debate performance while crowning the star turn of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
“She’s nailing it,” exclaimed Rogan in response to Harris’s campaign and debate performance. “Whoever’s helping her, whoever’s coaching her, whoever is the puppet master running the strings; f–king amazing job.”
“She’s nailing it.” Joe Rogan raves about Kamala Harris’ campaign and debate performance, and he mocks Donald Trump. (Video: The Joe Rogan Experience) pic.twitter.com/tnAWPnZlFM
Rogan repeatedly teased Trump in the Don’s signature accent during his interview with comedian Tom Segura before comparing Harris’s baiting of Trump in the ABC debate to mastering the art of Jiu Jitsu.
“She was like, ‘If you go to his rallies, his crowds are boring, they’re tired, they’re all leaving early,’ and he’s like, ‘My crowd’s are the best crowds, I have the number 1 crowds.’ He couldn’t help himself!”
Rogan, as he has done for the past several years, downplayed left-wing fantasies about Trump being a dictator and highlighted Trump’s success in guiding the American economy during his one term in office.
“He actually was the president for four years, and the economy really did well,” Rogan told Segura. “He really did try to cut some of the bullsh-t down that’s going on in this country. Who knows what would have happened if he had four more years.”
But Rogan’s support for the former president ended there. When tasked with discussing Trump’s performance in 2024, Rogan continued to hammer on the weaknesses of his campaign.
“I know he’s doing mock debates but someone needs to tell him—you’ve got these tiny little windows and you should have all the words ready for those windows,” Rogan remarked. “There should be no repeating things.”
The former Fear Factor host bluntly stated that Harris was “better prepared” for last Tuesday’s debate which was widely characterized as a surprise Harris victory by most outside MAGA’s ardent faithful.
“The difference in that debate was not ‘who has better policies’ or ‘who’s gonna be better for the country,’” Rogan stated. “The difference in the debate was who was better prepared. She was way better prepared. Even when it came to tough questions, instead of answering she’d just say things she believes and it sounded really good.”
Spotify’s $100 million man has continually dodged attempts by Trump to appear on his platform. According to the UFC’s top commentator, Trump has reached out numerous times in an attempt to reach Rogan’s much-desired audience of young males but Rogan has repeatedly turned him away.
“I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form,” Rogan recently told the podcaster Lex Fridman. “I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once—I’ve said no, every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”
Despite Rogan’s comments and his relentless criticism of Trump’s debate performance, suggestions on 𝕏 Tuesday that Rogan had become a “Kamala fanboy” appear to be exaggerated. In episode #2200 of his Joe Rogan Experience, which premiered this August, Rogan expressed his strong opposition to Harris’s stance of censoring free speech on social media.
“She’s saying she wants government oversight and regulation for social media,” Rogan said. “That’s crazy.”
Over the course of more than 2000 episodes, Rogan has interviewed a slew of bipartisan political figures such as Bernie Sanders, Dan Crenshaw, Wesley Hunt, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Speaking with Segura, Rogan praised the Kennedy scion who ditched his independent presidential bid to support Trump in August. “If Trump winds up winning, they’re gonna expose our food systems,” Rogan said in praise of Kennedy and Trump’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again.”
The viral clips of Rogan’s critique will surely frustrate Trump who has overtly attempted, to varying degrees of success, to reach a younger demographic of voters as he seeks another term in the Oval Office. In interviews with Adin Ross, Lex Fridman, the Nelk Boys, the golfer Bryson DeChambeau, and other social-media influencers, Trump has attempted to bridge the age gap with new voters who were non-voting, young adults when Trump first won Pennsylvania Avenue in 2016.
Trump has fairly won plaudits for his ability to connect, sincerely, with this cadre of celebrities and talkers. But there have been missteps as well.
In a scene reminiscent to Trump’s mispronunciation of the name of rapper “Lil Pump” at a campaign event in 2020, the former president last weekend misgendered Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Nicky Jam during his rally in Las Vegas.
Jam deleted his endorsement of the president within 24 hours after Trump said the musician was a “hot woman” moments before the male artist walked on stage. It was just the latest Zoomer faux pax committed by the 78-year-old who is desperate to reach the all-important youth voter base.
Earlier this week, Trump posted “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” on his struggling Truth Social platform after the pop star and global icon endorsed Harris for president. Swift’s endorsement of Harris was expected but it was Trump’s hateful rhetoric that made international waves in the news.
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Even the Trump fan Brittany Mahomes, who ironically is close friends with Swift, and who was shouted out by Trump only weeks ago, said she was “deeply disturbed” by Trump’s venom toward Swift and is now “rethinking” her support of the former president. All the Adin Ross and Lex Fridman interviews in the world can’t move popular opinion quite like a single tweet from the self-described “Catlady” of pop—and Trump knows it.
Rogan’s mockery is unlikely to sway the election, but it does signal a major shift in the 2024 election cycle that has seen Trump go from being characterized as a dangerous strongman to that of a laughingstock who poses no actionable threat to the industrial order that runs Washington, DC. In his debate rant about pets “being eaten” in Ohio, America saw not the iron fist of a fixed man but the crazed ravings of an aging shadow who may believe just about anything Laura Loomer tells him.
If Rogan, who is often snapped smiling with Trump at UFC events, can see the writing on the wall, who can’t?
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