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Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris. Donald Trump has only himself to blame


The former US president did what no one else could do: cracked Swift’s inscrutable veneer by annoying her into action with an Instagram post backing Harris

Still, speaking out wasn’t a choice she made lightly: the Netflix documentary Miss Americana captured Swift’s agonising over possibly alienating a big chunk of her fans in Tennessee, her home state, who had stuck with her since she was a tween singing country music. He recently complained online that Swift had chosen “the worst and most corrupt President in the History of our Country” (creative decisions about capitals all his). (Most of Trump’s celebrity endorsements have been male country singers: Jason Aldean, Kid Rock, Lee Greenwood.)

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