Cat-loving Taylor Swift fans supporting Vice President Kamala Harris have raised over $135,000 thanks to a single Zoom call Tuesday night--and n $13 increments, as a nod to the singer's favorite number.
The more than 27,000 "Swifties For Kamala" included self-identified Swiftie politicians such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), as well as singer Carole King, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Taylor Swift herself.
King ended her speech encouraging attendees to participate in door-knocking with a few lines from “Shake It Off.”
While Swift herself has yet to endorse the Harris/Walz ticket, most Swifties ardently believe it's coming any day now. Until then, the speakers on the call stood in for the singer and supplied their own lyric-driven references.
“We’ve got 70 days until the election, and I’m just going to be blunt, it is going to be a tough fight ahead,” Sen. Warren said. “We have a lot to do, and dang, there are only 24 hours in a day, or 144 ‘All Too Well’ 10-minute versions."
Sen. Gillibrand listed jokes her staff wrote, including “We can’t stop, won’t stop voting, so shake it off,” and “Kamala is saying, ‘look what you made me do.’”
It was a male Swiftie who dropped the most T Swizzle references, though.
“Donald Trump will stare directly in the sun, but never in the mirror,” Sen. Markey said. “So we have our work ahead of us to make sure we defeat this antihero wannabe, or as I like to call him, Mr. Casually Cruel, Mr. Everything Revolves Around You. In the words of Taylor Swift, I never trust a narcissist, and this narcissist-in-chief clearly doesn’t know enough about karma, or what I like to call the infinite organizing power of the Swifties on this Zoom call. He’s too busy soliciting billion-dollar bribes from his big oil buddies. But karma is a Swiftie voter.”