Once upon a time she was just a country singer with a guitar but today, in the minds of one in five Americans, Taylor Swift is part of a wider plot to help President Joe Biden win another term.
A new poll has found that just just under half (46%) of the American public has heard something about Swift being part of a supposed covert government effort to help Biden win the 2024 presidential election. Just under 1 in 5 Americans (18%) believe such a conspiracy involving Swift exists.
Of the people who believe the Swift-Biden conspiracy, 71% of them identify with or lean toward the Republican party and 83% indicate they are likely to support Donald Trump in the fall. That’s not all: nearly three-quarters of those who believe the Swift conspiracy also believe that the 2020 election outcome was fraudulent.
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‘The supposed Taylor Swift conspiracy has legs among a decent number of Trump supporters. Even many who hadn’t heard about it before we polled them accept the idea as credible. Welcome to the 2024 election,’ said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
The conspiracy theory flourished among America's right-wing media after the singer started dating Travis Kelce, a football player the Kansas City Chiefs NFL team. A pro-Trump podcast host began claiming before the Super Bowl, in which Kelce's team eventually triumphed, that the NFL had 'rigged' a victory for his team.
'All to spread DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDA. Calling it now: KC wins, goes to Super Bowl, Swift comes out at the halftime show and 'endorses' Joe Biden with Kelce at midfield. It's all been an op since day one,' the podcast host, Mike Crispi wrote on X.
A matter of days later, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who has pushed debunked conspiracy theories about the Capitol Hill insurrection, the 2020 election, and 9/11, further echoed Crispi's conspiracy. 'I wonder who's going to win the Super Bowl next month. And I wonder if there's a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall.'
Last month, a Fox News host Jesse Watters speculated that Swift might be a Pentagon 'psyop' — an asset used for psychological operations. 'Is Swift a front for a covert political agenda?' he asked. The Pentagon swiftly rejected his claim, stating that they were going to shake it off...
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