White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre couldn’t stop laughing on Monday about speculation that President Joe Biden and Taylor Swift might team up for the 2024 election.
During a live interview on “CNN News Central,” anchor John Berman asked Jean-Pierre to respond to a New York Times article about efforts to get Swift involved in Biden’s re-election campaign. Berman asked specifically about one part of the article that referenced “sending the president to a stop on Swift’s Eras tour.”
“So what would Swift’s support give the president?” the CNN anchor asked. “Any plans? Any plans to go on tour?”
Taylor Swift is the biggest and most influential endorsement target for the Biden campaign, according to The New York Times.
The campaign reportedly developed a Taylor Swift strategy to get her endorsement, and even floated the idea of having him attend the Eras Tour. pic.twitter.com/xZzvvnNwgo
— Pop Base (@PopBase) January 29, 2024
The White House Press Secretary laughed before she replied, “So let me first say I got to be really mindful. I’m a federal employee. As you know, there’s something called the Hatch Act, so certainly cannot speak to anything that is related to 2024 an upcoming election.”
“So going to be super, super mindful obviously,” she added. “There are a lot of I know, in my shop in the press office shop, there are a lot of Swifties. If you were, if you will, fans of Taylor Swift. And so I’m just going to leave it there.”
The laughter continued, and Jean-Pierre made it clear more than once that she wasn’t going to get “into the president’s schedule at all from here. As it relates to the 2024 elections.”
In another part of the article, the Times suggested that Biden aides are “drafting wish lists of potential surrogates,” social media influencers, and “the endorsement of their wildest dreams,” being that of Swift.
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A Swift endorsement of Biden has even extended to the football world, with former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy alluding on X that Super Bowl LVIII is rigged to allow for a presidential endorsement from Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Kelce’s team punched their ticket to the Super Bowl on Sunday with a 17-10 victory over the Baltimore Ravens.
I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month. And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months.
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) January 29, 2024
“I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month,” Ramaswamy wrote. “And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall.”
“Just some wild speculation over here; let’s see how it ages over the next eight months,” he added.
The Chiefs will face off against San Francisco following the 49ers’ come-from-behind victory against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, February 11.