{"id":964155,"date":"2021-11-03T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964155"},"modified":"2021-11-03T19:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:29:04","slug":"report-taylor-swift-fans-changed-voter-registration-to-virginia-in-failed-attempt-to-help-terry-mcauliffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-taylor-swift-fans-changed-voter-registration-to-virginia-in-failed-attempt-to-help-terry-mcauliffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Taylor Swift Fans Changed Voter Registration to Virginia in Failed Attempt to Help Terry McAuliffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-taylor-swift-fans-changed-voter-registration-to-virginia-in-failed-attempt-to-help-terry-mcauliffe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964155&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/McAuliffetaylorswiftvoters1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">In one of the stranger stories to emerge from Virginia\u2019s hotly contested gubernatorial race, failed candidate Terry McAuliffe (D) made a last-minute effort to mobilize pop star Taylor Swift\u2019s fan base by running attack ads blaming his opponent Glenn Youngkin (R), a former private equity executive, for the controversial sale of Swift\u2019s master recordings.<\/p>\n<p>The ads were so potent that some \u201cSwifties\u201d reportedly changed their voter registration to Virginia in a bid to boost McAuliffe and enact revenge on Youngkin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fans of Taylor Swift \u2014 often called \u201cSwifties\u201d \u2014 told Comedy Central\u2019s <em>The&nbsp;Daily Show With Trevor Noah<\/em> that they wanted to help&nbsp;McAuliffe win back the governor\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m originally from Texas, and the last three years in college, I voted in Texas, but I just knew that I couldn\u2019t just sit by and watch as Youngkin took Virginia,\u201d a Swiftie named Molly told the show. &nbsp;\u201cThat\u2019s when I decided to change my voter registration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Taylor Swift Fans Are Trying to Sway the Virginia Governor\u2019s Race | The Daily Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jPXipqwlN-s?start=210&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Another young voter seconded the impulse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in a weird college area as well, where I was voting in my home state, but now I am voting in Virginia because of this issue,\u201d a fan named&nbsp;Keirsten told the show.<\/p>\n<p>Another Swiftie interviewed on the show made the unsubstantiated claim that Youngkin&nbsp;doesn\u2019t care about LGBTQ people. The fan appeared to be referring the Republican\u2019s silence on the gay marriage issue, though he has acknowledged that same-sex marriage is legal in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift fans became inflamed by the Virginia election after&nbsp;McAuliffe launched a series of online and social media ads accusing Youngkin of helping to subvert the pop star\u2019s career. Youngkin was co-CEO of The Carlyle Group at the time when the firm worked with media executive Scooter Braun to acquire Big Machine Label Group, a move that gave Braun control of all of Swift\u2019s master recordings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.7741935483871\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Virginia Democrat Clown Terry McAuliffe is not so desperate that he&#8217;s now trying to enlist Taylor Swift fans to help fend off Republican Glenn Youngkin with a bizarre and politically irrelevant argument about Swift&#8217;s recording rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xM80cDRXJT\">https:\/\/t.co\/xM80cDRXJT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1445752623454322699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Swift riled up her fan base at the time by objecting to the sale, saying in a social media post that it made it more difficult for her to perform her own songs.<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe\u2019s campaign ultimately failed when Youngkin trounced him in Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. 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Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the stranger stories to emerge from Virginia\u2019s hotly contested gubernatorial race, failed candidate Terry McAuliffe (D) made a last-minute effort to mobilize pop star Taylor Swift\u2019s fan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}