The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs have simply gained the Tremendous Bowl, and that’s good. However simply to concentrate on the actual information for one second: May this imply that Taylor Swift — the worldwide celebrity, soccer fanatic and onetime Biden endorser — goes to go to the White Home?
Requested on Monday whether or not the White Home would prolong an invite to the singer, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White Home press secretary, mentioned that call was as much as the staff, not President Biden.
“That’s going to be as much as the Chiefs, and clearly, their determination to determine who’s going to come back with them after they come,” Ms. Jean-Pierre mentioned. “And as you already know, it’s a White Home custom. I can’t, I can’t converse to attendance and who can be right here, however we look ahead to having them right here.”
Right here is a few background for the six individuals on planet Earth who may nonetheless want it: Ms. Swift, the pop singer, has been relationship Travis Kelce, a good finish for the Chiefs, since a minimum of the autumn, embarking on an expanded model of the soft-focus, jock-meets-music-nerd love story that she as soon as divined as a youthful songwriter. And Mr. Kelce, essentially the most well-known tight finish within the Nationwide Soccer League thanks partially to his girlfriend’s star energy, is on the staff that may obtain a standard invitation from the president to have a good time their win on the White Home.
A White Home go to from Ms. Swift would add gasoline to a number of theories — none of which she has acknowledged herself — that she has the ability to bolster Mr. Biden’s re-election bid and sink the prospects of his seemingly challenger, Donald J. Trump.
In current weeks, Mr. Biden’s allies have buzzed with anticipation that Ms. Swift might ship an endorsement, as she did in 2020. Mr. Trump appears anxious about that prospect as effectively. In a social media publish over the weekend, he mentioned he was answerable for laws that has contributed to Ms. Swift’s success.
“There’s no means she might endorse Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt President within the Historical past of our Nation, and be disloyal to the person who made her a lot cash,” Mr. Trump mentioned. “Moreover that, I like her boyfriend, Travis, though he could also be a Liberal, and possibly can’t stand me!”
Ms. Swift, 34, had no remark — however she has traditionally not reacted effectively when individuals have tried to take possession of her work. And in any case, she was busy, and possibly jet-lagged, after touring from her tour in Tokyo to the Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas. There, she chugged a drink on nationwide tv, jumped up and down in help of her boyfriend and joined him on the sphere for a kiss after the Chiefs gained.
On Sunday night, it was Mr. Biden, and never Mr. Trump, who made point out of the conservative conspiracy idea that the singer is definitely an operative for the Democratic Social gathering — or the Pentagon? it’s arduous to observe — in her spare time, and that her romance with Mr. Kelce, 34, is definitely a part of a sinister plot to thwart Mr. Trump. Or one thing like that.
“Similar to we drew it up, @Chiefs,” Mr. Biden’s account wrote on social media after the sport, together with a picture that paid a homage to his “Darkish Brandon” alter ego, an edgier and extra on-line model of the president, if he might shoot laser beams out of his eyes.
Anyway.
Ms. Swift has waded into politics within the years for the reason that 2016 presidential race, when she was criticized for avoiding an endorsement and observers speculated over her political views. In 2018, forward of the midterm elections, she wrote on Instagram she would vote for Phil Bredesen, the Democratic challenger to Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican of Tennessee. (Ms. Blackburn gained.)
A clip from her 2020 documentary “Miss Americana” confirmed that the deliberation behind Ms. Swift’s determination to endorse Mr. Bredesen was extra intense than was publicly identified. In that clip, a tearful Ms. Swift instructed her father that she wanted to be “on the best aspect of historical past” and that “if he doesn’t win, then a minimum of I attempted.”
In that dialog, her father, Scott Swift, warned her in regards to the hazard of getting concerned in politics, saying that he needed to order “armored vehicles” to maintain his daughter protected.
In October 2020, Ms. Swift endorsed Mr. Biden in an interview with V Journal.
“I’ll proudly vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on this yr’s presidential election. Below their management, I consider America has an opportunity to start out the therapeutic course of it so desperately wants,” she mentioned on the time.
Tree Paine, a consultant for Ms. Swift, didn’t instantly return a request for touch upon Monday asking whether or not the singer would journey to the White Home or whether or not she deliberate to endorse Mr. Biden.
