CNN Information Analyst Stories Why Swift Endorsement Could Need to Matter for Dems — And It is Dangerous Information for Kamala | The Gateway Pundit

It might appear laughable — the concept, simply moments after the controversy between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump concluded, pop icon Taylor Swift launched an endorsement during which she signed off on her help for the Democratic nominee as a “Childless Cat Woman” for Harris-Walz.

“I will probably be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz within the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I consider want a warrior to champion them,” Swift stated in an Instagram put up.

“I believe she is a steady-handed, gifted chief and I consider we will 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 choice of operating mate @timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a girl’s proper to her personal physique for many years,” she continued.

“I’ve finished my analysis, and I’ve made my alternative. Your analysis is all yours to do, and the selection is yours to make. I additionally need to say, particularly to first time voters: Keep in mind that in an effort to vote, you must be registered! I additionally discover it’s a lot simpler to vote early. I’ll hyperlink the place to register and discover early voting dates and information in my story.”

So, that is meaningless blather, proper? It’s an attention-sponge sponging Kamala’s consideration simply minutes after the controversy ended, and that’s it.

Properly, as CNN senior knowledge reporter Harry Enten identified in a Thursday phase, the Democrats had higher hope it’s a bit of greater than that.

First off, it’s most likely useful to do a little bit of a rewind right here to remind ourselves of precisely why Joe Biden was nonetheless within the race regardless of his clearly declining well being — mentally and bodily — and why he was finally persuaded to drop out.

Biden and his folks basically believed that the president was the one one that might maintain collectively the coalition that propelled the Democrats to victory in 2020: older working-class Rust Belt unionites, extra progressive younger voters, and a broad coalition of ethnic, racial and spiritual minorities.

What grew to become more and more clear is that the coalition was falling aside — partially amongst minorities, however particularly amongst youthful voters. The concept was that, by buying and selling out Biden for Kamala Harris, whose enchantment is particularly tailor-made to younger leftists, they’d no less than sew up that phase of the vote whereas addressing weaknesses amongst black and Latino voters with a minority candidate. They might persuade the hard-hats later.

Nonetheless, that’s not fairly the way it labored out, as Enten spelled out on air when speaking about why Swift’s endorsement looms so giant.

“Why does she want the assistance? Properly, let’s simply level out one thing that I’ve been noting all alongside throughout this marketing campaign, and that’s the underperformance that each Joe Biden and now even Kamala Harris has amongst younger voters,” Enten stated, earlier than turning to a graphic charting polling knowledge from the Cook dinner Political Report.

“So, that is the Democrat versus Trump margin amongst voters age 18 to 29 or beneath the age of 30. You return 4 years in the past at this level. Look, Joe Biden had a 28-point benefit. A 28-point benefit over Donald Trump. Now, you look when Joe Biden dropped out of the race, he was up by simply seven factors,” he stated.

“Now, Kamala Harris has improved on Joe Biden’s standing. However have a look at this. She’s solely up by 15 factors.”

“That’s considerably lower than Joe Biden was up at this level among the many youngest voters in our voters. It’s solely about half the margin that Joe Biden was pulling in,” Enten stated.

“So, Kamala Harris will completely welcome within the help of Taylor Swift if she will be able to transfer younger voters in any respect, as a result of the underside line is Kamala Harris is, the truth is, not doing as properly amongst younger voters as you would possibly anticipate a Democrat to essentially be doing primarily based upon historical past.”

Wait — are we saying “pleasure” and “vibes” hasn’t damaged by means of? She’s had marketing campaign occasions that have been mainly concert events! Her veep candidate making soiled jokes in regards to the different veep candidate that solely younger, Very On-line™ voters would get! Just about each movie star not named Taylor Swift endorse her! What extra do you want?

Should you want Taylor Swift to win younger voters, sadly, you most likely want much more.

Simply to be clear, whereas Swift has been identifiably a liberal for a while now, her one expertise wading right into a political contest was a 2018 Senate race in Tennessee. That race was mainly a toss-up between former Democrat Gov. Phil Breseden and GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn.

Swiftie-mania was solely barely much less of a factor six years in the past than it’s now, however Taylor’s endorsement of Breseden in her state of residence did nothing — or lower than nothing, contemplating the race was statistically tied within the polls when Swift made the endorsement and Blackburn ended up successful by nearly 11 factors.

However once more, Breseden didn’t face the identical form of challenges that Harris did. Even when she did win the controversy — it was a 3-on-1 contest, given the moderator bias, so this was hardly shocking — the polls have been nonetheless disappointing for Harris given the media-gasm she’d obtained within the wake of the Democratic Nationwide Conference. And when debates tip the scales, it’s often amongst those that are already tuned into the race.

Given the overall apathy towards the Democratic ticket from younger voters this time, and the dearth of an enormous rebound given the change to Harris, no quantity of debate spin is more likely to repair that underperformance in what could also be Kamala’s most necessary demographic.

So there you will have it: In Swift they belief. That’s not precisely an inspiring thought for Kamala’s marketing campaign — particularly once they notice their destiny could also be hitched, partially, to a girl who grew to become profoundly well-known for singing about her failed relationships.

This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.