A new Monmouth poll finds that 18% of Americans believe that Taylor Swift is part of a covert effort to help President Biden win the 2024 election. Fully 71% of those who believe this identify with or lean toward the Republican Party and 83% indicate they are likely to support Donald Trump in the

Donald Trump said on Truth Social that Taylor Swift should be thankful for his 2018 signing of the Music Modernization Act, which he said he did “for Taylor Swift and all other Musical Artists.” Said Trump: “Joe Biden didn’t do anything for Taylor, and never will. There’s no way she could endorse

“Florida Democrats don’t know why Taylor Swift is naming an upcoming song on her new album ‘Florida!!!’ or the reason she chose to hold three concerts in Miami less than a month before the November elections,” Politico reports. “But their excitement around the news is less about ‘why?’ and more

The Economist: “Conspiracists have often worried about artists being manipulated for political ends. After Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet, gave a recital in Moscow, Stalin is said to have raged: ‘Who organized the standing ovation?’ In the 1950s America’s paranoid ‘Red Scare’ blighted careers and

“Television comedies like ‘Veep’ and ‘Parks and Recreation’ have long poked fun at the absurdities of national and local politics, but it’s rare for them to zero in on the fine print of laws passed by state legislatures,” the New York Times reports. “So it was surprising that the end of Sunday