Ousted CNN anchor Don Lemon is urging pop superstar Taylor Swift to come forward and endorse Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Lemon, 58, made his plea to DailyMail.com as he walked the streets of Greenwich Village in New York City on Friday. He was predicting her endorsement would encourage younger voters to cast their ballot for Harris come November
Swift, who has almost 500 million followers between her social media accounts has more recently steered clear of politics preferring instead not to intervene so as not to alienate her fan base, known as ‘Swifties’, although she did speak out in 2020.
But as far as Lemon is concerned, time is of the essence and believes Swift should make her political allegiances clear once again.
‘Taylor Swift needs to step forward. She’s very influential. She can move an election,’ Lemon said.
Swift has previously criticized the GOP nominee and vowed to ‘vote [him] out’ ahead of the 2020 election after being left ‘completely blindsided’ by his 2016 victory.
Ahead of Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton, Swift kept quiet on her political leanings leading some to suspect she was actually a secret Republican.
But during the 2018 midterms, she voiced strong support for Tennessee Democrats including Senate candidate Phil Bredesen and House candidate Jim Cooper.
She explained in an Instagram post: ‘In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now.
‘I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country.’
