Taylor Swift broke her political silence with an Instagram post on Sunday night that urged her 112 million Instagram followers to visit vote.org to register to vote. Expressing a thirst for social justice, Swift said that despite her penchant in the past to vote for women, she could not support Marsha Blackburn‘s Tennessee senate run. Swift listed a litany of Blackburn’s beliefs and congressional votes that met the singer’s disapproval — not least a vote against equal pay for women. (Swift also laments what Swift describes as Blackburn’s belief that “businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples.”)
[Taylor Swift’s senate choice Phil Bredesen alienated many Democrats when he said he would have voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court if he had been in the Senate.]
But in a choice that illustrates just how difficult and complex electoral politics can be. In going against Blackburn, Swift backs Tennessee Democrat Phil Bredesen (two-term Tennessee governor) for the Senate. Bredesen recently broke with the majority of his party by saying he would vote to confirm controversial Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, despite Kavanaugh’s repeated equivocations under oath and his partisan rant during his confirmation hearing. Bredesen is 74 years old. Swift is 28.
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