American pop star Taylor Swift, whose potential influence on young American voters is highly scrutinized before the next presidential election, on Tuesday called on her fans to vote on the big day of the primaries, without giving any partisan instructions.
“I wanted to remind you to vote for the people who best represent YOU. If you haven’t, plan to vote today,” the singer wrote on Instagram, urging voters to go to vote.org to find their polling place.
Taylor Swift has 282 million followers on Instagram.
From Maine to California, from Texas to Virginia, from Alaska to Alabama, millions of Americans are called to the polls in 15 states and one territory during “Super Tuesday” of the presidential primaries.
Personality of the year 2023 for the magazine Timecrowned at the last Grammy Awards as the artist who has won the prestigious award for best album of the year the most times (four in total), Taylor Swift has become an essential personality in the United States and each of her eventual takes position are closely scrutinized, eight months before a probable revenge between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.
In September, she published a message on Instagram inviting her subscribers to go to the Vote.org platform to register on the electoral lists. The organization recorded more than 35,000 new registrations that day, a jump of 23% compared to the same day a year earlier.
But the singer, who has become a feminist icon for her fans, has often been reluctant to speak out in favor of one side. She was thus widely criticized by Democrats for not having openly supported Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump in 2016.
After years of caution, Taylor Swift came out of the woods for the first time in 2018, sponsoring a Democrat against a Republican senator with very conservative positions in the state of Tennessee, where the singer spent her youth.
In 2020, Taylor Swift officially announced her support for Joe Biden against then-President Donald Trump, accusing the Republican of having “fanned the flames of white supremacism and racism throughout [son] mandate”.