The Florida Democratic Party is teaming up with the Swifties for Kamala coalition, as international pop superstar Taylor Swift kicks off a three-night performance of her Eras Tour on Friday at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.
On Saturday, the Swifties will host Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried in a “friendship bracelet making organizing event.” They will also hold a listening party and phone banking session later that day on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democratic Party candidates.
The group will also be canvassing throughout the weekend in big cities like Jacksonville, Orlando, Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Palm Beach.
There will also be virtual events, where activists will call North Carolina voters, and text with voters in Florida, Texas, and Arizona.
Swifties for Kamala and the Democrats have branded their joint campaign effort the “Eras Tour: GOTV Version.”
Even casual Swift fans will recognize the reference here to the recent “Taylor’s Version” albums, which were re-recorded songs she released following a lengthy dispute with her former label, Big Machine Records, over the ownership of master tracks, which are original recordings of songs that are then copied for sales distribution.
The re-recorded tracks topped music charts worldwide and their success influenced the music industry to reconsider the effect of copyright law on artists’ financial stakes in their own work.
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, former congresswoman and current Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate against Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), said on “Pod Save America” Tuesday that “all I need” is for Swift, and rumored guest Post Malone, to endorse her on stage.
“That would be the height for me,” Mucarsel-Powell said, if Swift and Malone told concertgoers, “Ok everyone vote for Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, she needs to be your next senator!”
A Friday poll conducted by Napolitan News has Scott leading Mucarsel-Powell by 8 points. A separate poll the same group also published Friday shows former President Donald Trump is currently beating Harris in the state by 5 points.
Swift had stayed out of politics for most of her career, until she endorsed Joe Biden for president in October 2020. For the current election cycle, Swift stayed silent until her surprise endorsement of Harris right after the Sept. 10 presidential debate went off the air.
The official Team Trump’s Instagram account on Thursday posted a video of Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump, Trump 2024 Deputy Communications Director Caroline Sunshine, and former ESPN host Sage Steele singing along to a mashup of Swift’s song “22” and rapper Forgiato Blow’s “Trump Trump Baby” with matching pink “Women For Trump” jackets.