Taylor Swift Delivers New Political Message at VMAs (Her Version)
It’s been a whirlwind 24 for hours for Taylor Swift—which, given that this is Taylor Swift we’re talking about, is certainly saying something. A typical day in her career doesn’t involve so much…patriotism?
After her Instagram post endorsing Kamala Harris for president landed like a lightning strike in the minutes following Tuesday night’s presidential debate—releasing an entire hive of bees into conservative pundits’ bonnets while simultaneously mobilizing hundreds of thousands of visitors to voter registration websites in just a matter of hours—she won the first award of the night at Wednesday’s MTV Video Music Awards.
She was also the night’s big grand finale, taking home Video of the Year, a moment she used to, for one of the first times, publicly thank Travis Kelce, as well as encourage fans to turn their attention from voting for awards shows to voting in the upcoming presidential election.