Taylor Swift

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Cue the conspiracy theorists — Taylor Swift has issued a political message on this Super Tuesday.

The highly influential, Grammy-winning musician posted the message to her Instagram Stories that urged her legions of fans to vote in their states’ primary elections. Her call to action: “[V]ote the people who most represent YOU into power.”

Taylor Swift Instagram Story urging fans to vote on Super Tuesday

@taylorswift on Instagram

Here was the full message:

Today, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Tennessee and 16 other states and territories.

I wanted to remind you guys to vote the people who most represent YOU into power. If you haven’t already, make a plan to vote today.

Whether you’re in Tennessee or somewhere else in the US, check your polling places and times at VOTE.ORG

Even without endorsing a specific candidate — Vote.org is a nonpartisan site — Swift’s sway when it comes to politics is palpable. Last fall on Voter Registration Day, another Instagram post by Swift urging her fans to get registered resulted in more than 30,000 new voters in just one day, enough to swing a local election one way or another. For example, USA Today reported that “the state where Swift had the biggest single-day impact was Texas, with about 2,700 new registrations, and 4,562 over the following 10 days. Overall, Texas has about 17.7 million registered voters.”

A poll published by Newsweek in January also found that 18 percent of voters would be “more likely” or “significantly more likely” to back a Swift-endorsed candidate. That might not be a majority, but it could be enough to tip one candidate over the edge.

Up until 2018, Swift generally remained politically neutral to her massive fan following. But during that year’s midterm elections, Swift publicly endorsed Democratic candidates in her home state of Tennessee and denounced Republican incumbent Sen. Marsha Blackburn (who won anyway), saying at the time: “Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me.”

In 2020, Swift famously threw her support behind President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Swift has not endorsed anyone yet in 2024, despite the right-wing conspiracy theory that she was going to endorse Biden as part of a government psy-op during the Super Bowl this year. The Biden administration is, however, still courting her for an official endorsement. (Though if you ask Biden about that, he’ll tell you “that’s classified.”)