There seems to be no “Love Story” between Republican voters and Taylor Swift — the megastar has misplaced a big quantity of help from her right-leaning followers following her endorsement of Vice President Harris, in line with a brand new ballot.
Roughly 47 % of Republicans have a damaging view of the “All Too Well” singer, an NBC Information ballot launched Friday discovered. That is greater than 20 factors greater than final November, when 26 % of Republicans shared the identical dim view of Swift in NBC’s ballot.
Whereas 28 % of Republicans final yr responded they’d a constructive view of Swift, Friday’s ballot discovered solely 12 % expressed the identical heat feeling towards the 34-year-old Grammy Award winner, NBC reported.
The ballot was carried out simply days after Swift made headlines by backing Harris’s White Home bid.
In a Sept. 10 Instagram message posted instantly following the controversy between Harris and former President Trump, Swift mentioned she was supporting the vice chairman as a result of “she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.”
“I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos,” Swift wrote of Harris to her greater than 280 million followers.
Constructive views of Swift from Democrats ticked up barely after the performer’s public push for Harris, the NBC Information survey discovered. Fifty-eight % of Democrats considered Swift favorably within the September ballot, in comparison with 53 % final yr.
