Invoice Maher finally received to the “large information this week” on the most recent episode of HBO’s Actual Time — Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris.
The host appeared amazed on the pop famous person’s affect on the 2024 presidential election, because it was beforehand reported that her endorsement drove greater than 400,000 individuals to Vote.gov, a voter registration useful resource that refers individuals to their native state election web sites.
“Taylor Swift lastly advised individuals who to vote for,” Maher mentioned. “After all, instantly the response from the opposite aspect was, ‘Celeb endorsements don’t matter.’ Individuals are at all times so behind on this stuff, you already know. That’s the standard knowledge for a very long time, many movie star endorsements don’t work… not on this case — I imply, simply the quantity of people that had been instantly registered from that tweet.”
The comic continued, “And I’m sorry, however we dwell in Starfucker, America. George Clooney is the one who received Biden to step down. I wrote the very same editorial he did, and so many different individuals did too. No one cared. As quickly as George Clooney mentioned it, he’s gotta go.”
Maher was later making an attempt to wrap his head round a “stunning” statistic relating to the demographic of Swift’s fanbase, based on a Might ballot carried out by Redfield & Wilton Methods for Newsweek.
“This was probably the most stunning a part of it, was who she influenced,” he mentioned. “Swift, it says, would have extra affect over male voters — 27 % of male voters mentioned they’d be extra prone to vote for a candidate endorsed by Swift. I will need to have this phenomenon gauged all incorrect. I assumed it might be ladies.”
Following the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris earlier this week, Swift took to her social media to provide the vp her extremely influential endorsement.
“I’m voting for [Kamala Harris] as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I imagine want a warrior to champion them,” the Grammy-winning singer wrote partially. “I believe she is a steady-handed, gifted chief and I imagine we are able to accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos. I used to be so heartened and impressed by her number of working mate [Tim Walz], who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a lady’s proper to her personal physique for many years.”
Friday’s episode of Actual Time featured friends Alex Karp, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Al Franken.