Don Lemon wants Kamala endorsement from Taylor Swift because ‘she can move an election’

With low-information voters on the line, Don Lemon implored a pop megastar to “use her platform for good” in a pitch to have her endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.

“She can move an election.”

After dominating last season in the NFL, it appeared that at least where corporate media talking heads were concerned, the 2024 election hinged on Taylor Swift. The mere possibility of her making an appearance during the Democratic National Convention left CNN anchors buzzing and this week, their ousted alum outright asserted she “needs to step forward.”

Having resorted to posting man-on-the-street interviews interspersed with shameless self-promotion of his book, Lemon found himself the subject of one such sudden inquisition when the Daily Mail spotted him walking in New York City’s Greenwich Village.

It was then that he said, “Taylor Swift needs to step forward. She’s very influential. She can move an election.”

“If she believes in women’s reproductive rights and a women’s right to choose — and in democracy,” Lemon went on. “I would say that Taylor Swift needs to come through. It would be a wasted opportunity if she does not use her platform for good.”

The direct pitch to the pop star with hundreds of millions of followers on social media came as Lemon had also posted a video on X where he expressed while holding his book, “Taylor Swift, t-minus two months to the election. Time is ticking. Got it.”

Thus far silent on the 2024 election, in 2020, Swift had accused then-President Donald Trump of “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism” throughout his term with a post on social media among others that took shots at the GOP leader.

Additionally, in an interview with V Magazine, she said, “I will proudly vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election. Under their leadership, I believe America has a chance to start the healing process it so desperately needs.”

As for Lemon, the commentator’s push to have such a high-profile endorsement had come after he had confided to MSNBC’s Jen Psaki that a considerable number of voters are more than a little unfamiliar with Harris.

“It depends on where you are. We went to a number of battleground states — Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana — on our way to Chicago. It depended on where you were,” he explained. “Pennsylvania, I shouldn’t say Pennsylvania, but Philadelphia was a bit more liberal in the answers to questions about her and [former President Donald Trump] were quite different.”

“For the most part in Pittsburgh or at the Jersey Shore and Atlantic City, in Ohio especially, many people didn’t know who she was. They were not familiar with her. So I think she has to reintroduce herself to the public,” argued the commentator.

Of course, Lemon’s massaged message to Psaki belied the videos that he himself had posted featuring respondents who were familiar with the vice president saying things like, “I’m going for Trump. I feel like every time they don’t want somebody who is good for us to win, they throw somebody black in our face that’s going to make us vote for the black person.”

“Kamala was on Biden team and I don’t like Biden. Gas wasn’t this high when Trump was our president. Food wasn’t this high,” the black woman went on while another lady expressed, “I voted for Obama because he was black. I don’t want to vote for her because she’s the first black woman to run for president or to win. It has to change. And now I vote more for what fits me better as a person rather than voting for the black person or voting for the first woman.”

Elsewhere, Lemon had attempted to gaslight respondents about their own living situations when, after a man explained that he made more money while Trump was president than he did now under the Biden-Harris administration, the pundit said, “I know you feel that way, but that’s not actually what the record shows. The economy is actually better under Biden.”

“No, I’m serious,” he added when the man laughed to his face.

The potential impact of “Swifties” on the upcoming election had not gone unnoticed by Trump himself who had welcomed any support from the pop star’s fanbase. The president had also gladly accepted apparent support from Swift’s friend, Brittany Mahomes, wife of NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes, while the two were notably seated apart at Thursday’s game where the Baltimore Ravens took on the Kansas City Chiefs.

“I want to thank beautiful Brittany Mahomes for so strongly defending me, and the fact that MAGA is the greatest and most powerful Political Movement in the History of our now Failing Country,” wrote Trump. “With Crime and Illegal Immigration totally out of control, INFLATION Ravaging all Americans, and a World that is laughing at the stupidity of our hapless ‘leaders,’ it is nice to see someone who loves our Country, and wants to save it from DOOM. What a great couple — See you both at the Super Bowl!”

Kevin Haggerty

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