Taylor Swift’s conspiracy theory is gaining momentum as a shock poll reveals how many Americans believe in a bizarre plot that she will help Joe Biden win the 2024 presidential election
Nearly one in five Americans believe there is a secret government effort for pop star Taylor Swift to help President Joe Biden win re-election, new polling shows.
The Monmouth University Survey put an online conspiracy theory to the test and found that almost half of respondents (46 percent) were aware of the bizarre plot, and 18 percent fell for it.
Last month, the idea that Swift was a “PsyOp” to help Biden win was mainstreamed by conservative figures including Fox News Channel’s Jesse Watters and failed Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
It is no surprise that most Americans who believe in the conspiracy are politically right-leaning.
The survey found that 71 percent of believers identify with or lean toward the Republican Party and 83 percent said they planned to vote for former President Donald Trump in the November election.
Nearly one in five Americans believe there is a secret government effort for pop star Taylor Swift to help President Joe Biden win re-election, new polling from Monmouth University shows
Taylor Swift endorsed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election. Two years earlier, she endorsed a Democratic Senate candidate in the Tennessee race against GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn
Nearly three-quarters, 73 percent, who said they believe in the Swift conspiracy theory also believe the 2020 election was stolen.
After losing to Biden, Trump pushed the so-called “big lie,” falsely claiming that widespread election fraud had cost him a second term.
“The alleged Taylor Swift PsyOp conspiracy theory has legs among a significant number of Trump supporters,” Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement. “Even many who had never heard of it before we interviewed them accept the idea as credible. Welcome to the 2024 elections.”
Pollsters noted that 42 percent of those who reported believing in the Swift conspiracy theory had never heard of it before Monmouth contacted them.
Swift has yet to endorse a candidate for the 2024 race, although he publicly endorsed Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in 2020.
She originally jumped into politics in 2018, endorsing Democratic Tennessee Senate hopeful Phil Bredesen over Republican Marsha Blackburn.
Blackburn won the seat.
Former 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy insisted in late January that the Kansas City Chiefs were destined to win the Super Bowl to give more star power to a Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce endorsement from President Joe Biden
Taylor Swift (right) hugs her boyfriend Travis Kelce (right) after his team, the Kansas City Chiefs, defeated the San Francisco 49ers with a dramatic touchdown in overtime of Sunday’s Super Bowl
In both cases, Swift’s public support came toward the end of the election cycle.
But now that the election year was in full swing, there was already fanatic speculation in January about a statement of support for Swift.
That’s when Watters’ segment about Swift aired as “PsyOp.”
It was also the moment when Ramaswamy suggested that the Kansas City Chiefs were destined to win the Super Bowl, with Swift dating the team’s tight end Travis Kelce.
“I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month. And I wonder if there will be a big presidential endorsement this fall from an artificial culturally backed bunch,” Ramaswamy posted to
To further mainstream the conspiracy theory, both Trump and Biden alluded to it around the Super Bowl.
Ahead of Sunday’s big contest, Trump, the Republican front-runner, was furious about a possible Swift endorsement for his Democratic rival.
Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, former President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that Swift “couldn’t support Biden in any way,” arguing that he made her money by signing the Music Modernization Act.
After the Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl on Sunday night, President Joe Biden’s campaign account posted a photo of “Dark Brandon,” Biden’s sinister doppelgänger saying “just the way we drew it,” referencing the Taylor Swift conspiracy theory -theme.
He wrote on Truth Social that “there is no way” Swift could support the current president, crediting himself for making the pop star “so much money” by signing the Music Modernization Act.
“Joe Biden has done nothing for Taylor and never will,” Trump claimed.
When Swift’s friend Kelce’s Chiefs won the game, beating the San Francisco 49ers in a dramatic overtime, the Biden campaign posted on X an image of “Dark Brandon,” the president’s sinister doppelgänger.
“Just as we drew it,” the post read.
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was questioned about the Monmouth polls and asked if there were concerns about how many Americans believed the Swift-themed conspiracy theory.
Jean-Pierre responded “that’s for others to talk to,” but also pointed to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, noting how it occurred thanks to the mob’s belief in a false narrative.