{"id":608126,"date":"2024-02-10T19:51:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T16:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-maher-thinks-taylor-swift-could-literally-swing-2024-election\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T13:10:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T10:10:26","slug":"bill-maher-thinks-taylor-swift-could-literally-swing-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-maher-thinks-taylor-swift-could-literally-swing-2024-election\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill Maher Thinks Taylor Swift &#8216;Could Literally Swing&#8217; 2024 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/65712af47a3c8094d5da7d77?width=2000&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taylor Swift.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/taylor-swift-performs-onstage-during-taylor-swift-the-news-photo\/1801112313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buda Mendes\/TAS23 via Getty Images<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bill Maher discussed Taylor Swift&#8217;s political influence on his talk show Friday.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maher cautioned the GOP against criticizing Swift because she could swing the 2024 US election.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Swift is the center of far-right conspiracy theories, including one that says she&#8217;s a Pentagon asset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Maher thinks Taylor Swift could swing the upcoming 2024 election, so far-right pundits should tread carefully.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K2wLXuX4388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maher shared his opinion<\/a>\u00a0during a panel discussion with sports commentator Bob Costas and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> critic Caitlin Flanagan on his show on Friday. During the discussion, Maher admitted he hesitated to discuss Swift as a &#8220;national <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> story&#8221; but relented.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Could Taylor Swift Swing the Election? | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2wLXuX4388?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is a national news story in the sense that this is a person who could literally swing the election,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what that says about this country, but I would just say to the MAGA people, &#8216;You should be very careful attacking her because this is someone who transcends parties.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maher continued to describe Swift&#8217;s career, noting her undeniable sway with her fan base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6581e7f41c5c7b8c9a09d4cf?width=1200&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taylor Swift.\u00a0<br>James Devaney\/GC Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just saying, this is somebody you could really get in trouble with as far as attacking for MAGA because Trump&#8217;s people, they&#8217;re already registered and voting for him,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;Her voters perhaps are not registered at all, and she doesn&#8217;t have to say who she&#8217;s voting for. All she has to say is get registered. They know who she&#8217;s voting for.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maher continued: &#8220;So I think you could be waking a sleeping-until-the-afternoon giant.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Costas agreed that Swift influences voter turnout, not necessarily voters&#8217; choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Republican media pundits have ridiculed Swift in recent months as the 2024 presidential campaign ramps up. Far-right media personalities Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec both suggested that Swift&#8217;s connection to young voters could pose a problem for Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/65808c56a79e5746976a92fa?width=1200&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taylor Swift with fans at &#8220;The Eras Tour&#8221; movie premiere.\u00a0<br>John Shearer\/Getty Images for TAS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Taylor Swift is going to come out in the presidential election and she is going to mobilize her fans,&#8221; Kirk said on his radio show in November. &#8220;And we&#8217;re going to be like, &#8216;Oh wow, where did all these young female voters come from?&#8217; We better have a plan for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swift&#8217;s potential influence on the election has caused a proliferation of conspiracy theories around her. In one,\u00a0Swift is a\u00a0Pentagon asset.\u00a0In another,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.xn--com%20%20politics%20%20politics-news-kl9voa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swift will endorse Biden<\/a>\u00a0during the Super Bowl halftime show. That one was promoted by the\u00a0now-former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1751944730114498838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although\u00a0Swift publicly endorsed Biden in 2020, she&#8217;s yet to publicly confirm her support for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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