Pop star Taylor Swift may be a good luck charm for the Chicago Cubs, but her lucky stars may not be aligned with her endorsement in the presidential election.
Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell mentioned last month that he was given a candle with the young singer’s face on it and has been lighting the candle in his office before games with clubhouse manager Danny Miller, reported MailOnline.
“Candle? Sounds demonic… almost like she’s a witch…,” a Cubs fan said, referring to Swift.
Well, we all know baseball players are notoriously superstitious. JUGS Sports noted the following examples you may be familiar with:
- Pitchers usually don’t shave on game day.
- Players won’t step on foul lines when taking or coming off the field.
- If a player has a great day at the plate, he’ll keep using that bat until he cools off.
- No one talks to the pitcher once he gets close to a no-hitter.
- Joe DiMaggio (and there are plenty of others) always stepped on second base on his way in from centerfield.
Now, I guess we can add a Taylor Swift candle to the list, but do we want to? Despite her musical talent, she may not be the “Enchanted” good luck charm some may have wanted.
The singer recently gave her endorsement to Kamala Harris; however, a YouGov post-debate poll released Saturday, September 14, revealed that only 8% of voters indicated that her support could either “somewhat” or “much more likely” lead them to vote for the Democrat. On the other hand, a significant 20% stated that they are “somewhat” or “much less likely” to support former President Donald Trump’s opponent now that Swift has expressed her views, reported the New York Post.
66% of respondents indicated that Swift’s endorsement would not sway their vote in the upcoming November elections.
Do we really need celebratory endorsements for political leaders? Does anyone care?
Amy Robbins, creator and CEO of Alexo Athletica, recently addressed this question in her interview with Substack writer Jessica Reed Kraus, aka House Inhabit.
When Robbins asked if Swift’s endorsement could influence the election, Kraus replied, “I think we’re past celebrity endorsements.”
It appears the Democrats have been putting together a party more than a party plan.
Democrats may excel at pageantry, but will this be sufficient to win the people’s vote? Or will voters prioritize essential issues to ensure the stability of the country… for the people… rather than being manipulated by word salad and distracted by warm fuzzies?
Friday afternoon, September 13, Kamala Harris participated in her inaugural one-on-one interview with a mainstream media outlet. The interview took place with Philadelphia’s local ABC affiliate and was conducted by interviewer Brian Taff, reported the National Review.
You can watch the cringe-worthy interview on X, posted by Yahar Ali, a contributor to HuffPost, NY magazine, and NBC News, here.
The word salad responses given by Harris during the nearly 11-minute interview are exactly the kind of thing that worries her team; “perfect example[s] of why her handlers are concerned about her doing interviews,” said Republican political consultant Rob Ryan, per the New York Post.
Journalist Jeffrey Blehar with National Review noted after he attempted to transcribe the interview that Harris “is incapable of anything beyond memorized cliché — and she can’t even memorize her clichés when put on the spot. Her understanding of policy is transparently less than an inch thick — she plays as a person who ‘got into politics’ at a young age for the gamesmanship and drama and power of it all, a showhorse and not a workhorse….”
“When a reporter asks about inflation and she responds by talking about [neighbors’] lawns, I’d say she is disconnected from everyday Americans,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) said, reported New York Post. “But worse, is that she has no plan to fix it because she’s the one who broke it.”
Harris mentioned that she was “obviously not Joe Biden,” but many still can’t figure out who she is beyond her memorized line of growing up in a middle-class setting with a working-class mother.
We have received that information repeatedly and now have it memorized ourselves.
Harris has already had over 3.5 years to work “for the people,” yet Americans are feeling increasingly uneasy about the consequences of a lax border. Americans are also feeling the pain of everything from groceries to housing price hikes and non-citizens being registered to vote, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
After listening to Harris’ interview on Friday, one of Swift’s song titles keeps coming to mind: “I Knew You Were Trouble.”