This is nitpicking but I don’t think I’d describe Taylor Swift as “endorsing” Kamala Harris?
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This is nitpicking but I don’t think I’d describe Taylor Swift as “endorsing” Kamala Harris?
She says she’s voting for her but then explicitly said “vote for whoever you want.”
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@jsit What she did is endorsing
endorsing
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declare one's public approval or support of.It doesn't mean that you *force* everyone to support that person.
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@stephanie Not “force,” of course, but “I think you should vote for her” is the kind of thing people who are giving a political endorsement say. Like Oprah at the DNC for instance.
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@stephanie Also she specifically put it in the context of combating misinformation that she supports Trump.
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@jsit @stephanie I think a public statement of support is very much an endorsement. If a sports figure says, "I use Topnotchtrix every day," that's an endorsement, even if it comes without any explicit dictum.