Nikki Haley Dismisses MAGA World’s Taylor Swift Conspiracy As ‘Bizarre’

On Feb 2, 2024

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday appeared perplexed concerning the MAGA world’s newest conspiracy concept involving Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and President Joe Biden.

Ohio businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who endorsed Trump after dropping out of the GOP major, earlier this week appeared to recommend that the Super Bowl ultimate between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers was going to be rigged in favor of Kelce’s group to safe the couple’s endorsement for Biden.

“I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl,” he wrote on social media. “And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months.”

Asked to weigh into the MAGA world’s preoccupation with Swift, Haley expressed disbelief on the conspiracy theories being floated round.

“I’m not going to lie,” she advised CNN’s “The Lead.” “I don’t know what the obsession is. Taylor Swift is allowed to have a boyfriend. Taylor Swift is a good artist. I’ve taken my daughter to Taylor Swift concerts before.”

The former South Carolina governor added that the U.S. has extra urgent points than cooking up theories about who Swift could help within the presidential race.

“You know to have a conspiracy theory of all of this is bizarre,” she mentioned. “Nobody knows who she’s going to endorse but I can’t believe that that’s overtaken our national politics.”

Swift has up to now stayed silent on the upcoming presidential race. In 2020, she endorsed Biden.

While Trump has in a roundabout way addressed the baseless hypothesis round Swift, he reportedly advised aides he’s “more popular” than Swift and has an ethical loyal base of supporters than the pop star, in accordance with Rolling Stone.

Haley, who’s up to now trailing Trump by over 30 share factors within the GOP major calendar’s subsequent major contest in South Carolina, in accordance with the most recent polling, mentioned she plans to remain within the race and preserve constructing on the help she received in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“My goal is to be more competitive in South Carolina,” she mentioned. “We started with 2% in Iowa. We ended with 20%. We went into New Hampshire. We got 43%. In South Carolina, we want to get even more competitive than that.”