Carole King helps ‘Swifties for Kamala’ raise $100K for Harris campaign
There might still be a blank space on Taylor Swift’s election ballot but that hasn’t stopped Carole King and the rest of “Swifties for Kamala” from raising $100,000 during Tuesday’s inaugural rally to support Harris’ presidential campaign.
New York native Kind, 82, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren were among the guest speakers in attendance at the virtual kickoff call for the Swift-centric Democratic coalition.
In a nod to Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s resurfaced “childless cat lady” dig, the Grammy winner and self-proclaimed “original cat lady” expressed her admiration for both Swift and the Democratic presidential nominee.
“First of all, I am a Swiftie,” said King, who Swift inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. More than a mere friend, King added that she considers the “Blank Space” singer-songwriter her “musical and songwriting granddaughter.”
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King then surprised those on the call by performing the chorus of her personal favorite in the latter’s discography: “Shake It Off.”
“I’m excited about Kamala, because so many people are excited about Kamala. I have met her. I have admired her. The idea that this happened and the stars lined up and Joe Biden did a really gracious, hard thing to do, and I’m so proud of him because I’ve also known him. But this is about you.”
In 2021, Ohio Sen. Vance disparaged women without children as “miserable at their own lives” — a remark that has earned a mountain of backlash since it resurfaced earlier this summer.
Swift, also a self-proclaimed “cat lady,” has not yet publicly endorsed a candidate in the 2024 presidential race. Her 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden was her first public support for a presidential candidate.
Earlier this month, a “Swifties for Trump” movement began trending on X using images that largely appeared to be AI-generated. The Republican candidate and former president, 78, “accepted” the so-called nomination.