Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in post signed ‘childless cat lady’

In an Instagram post published minutes after the US presidential debate ended, Swift said ‘the simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth’

Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris for president, posting on Instagram shortly after the US presidential debate to say, “I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.”

Swift also addressed AI-generated images shared by Trump in late August that falsely depicted Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing his campaign for president.

She said, “It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter.”

Swift said she had watched the debate and urged her fans to do their research “the stances these candidates take on the topics that matter to you the most”.

She signed off “Childless cat lady,” a reference to comments made by Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance.

Speaking in 2021 to the then Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Vance called senior Democrats in Congress and the Biden administration “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.