{"id":12333,"date":"2018-10-08T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=12333"},"modified":"2018-10-08T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T09:22:29","slug":"taylor-swift-breaks-political-silence-in-favour-of-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=12333","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift breaks political silence in favour of Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12334\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Taylor-Swift.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Taylor-Swift.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Taylor-Swift-410x230.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Swift\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taylor Swift has spoken out politically for the first time, publicly endorsing two Democrats for the upcoming US mid-term elections.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old says events in \u201cthe past two years\u201d have meant she\u2019s no longer reluctant to share her views.<\/p>\n<p>The singer wrote on Instagram: \u201cI always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mid-term elections are 6 November.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, who in June gave a speech in Chicago offering \u201clove and respect\u201d to LGBT people who haven\u2019t yet come out, will be voting in historically Republican state Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in the fight for LGBT rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is wrong,\u201d she published to her 112m followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of colour is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor spoke out against the Republican candidate who is currently elected in her home state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn. Her voting record in Congress appals and terrifies me,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe voted against equal pay for women. She voted against the Reauthorisation of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee usually sides with President Donald Trump\u2019s Republican party, but recent polls suggest the result there could be close.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reaction<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Instagram post has had more than a million likes, while users on Twitter used Taylor\u2019s letter as an opportunity to speak on one of her historical foes \u2013 Ye (formerly known as Kanye) West.<\/p>\n<p>They remembered Ye\u2019s pledge to run for president.<\/p>\n<p>Expressed confusion at the way the two artist\u2019s political opinions have developed.<\/p>\n<p>And threw back to that infamous moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has spoken out politically for the first time, publicly endorsing two Democrats for the upcoming US mid-term elections. The 28-year-old says events in \u201cthe past two years\u201d have meant she\u2019s no longer reluctant to share her views. The singer wrote on Instagram: \u201cI always will cast my vote based on which candidate will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taylor Swift breaks political silence in favour of Democrats - Kumasi Online TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=12333\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taylor Swift breaks political silence in favour of Democrats - Kumasi Online TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Taylor Swift has spoken out politically for the first time, publicly endorsing two Democrats for the upcoming US mid-term elections. 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