Taylor Swift on Why She Was<br />Silent During the 2016 Election.<br />In a recent interview with ‘Vogue’ magazine,<br />Taylor Swift opened up about why she was so<br />reluctant to endorse a political candidate in 2016.<br />Her political silence at the time led a<br />number of people to think the 29-year-old<br />singer was a secret Trump supporter.<br />According to Swift however, her silence<br />was actually in defense of Hillary Clinton. .<br />Unfortunately in the 2016 election you had<br />a political opponent who was weaponizing<br />the idea of the celebrity endorsement... I just<br />knew I wasn’t going to help, Taylor Swift, via 'Vogue'.<br />Swift thought that aligning herself with Clinton<br />wouldn’t help, but would rather be a “liability.”.<br />Would I be an endorsement or would I<br />be a liability? Look, snakes of a feather<br />flock together. Look, the two lying women.<br />The two nasty women. Literally millions<br />of people were telling me to disappear.<br />So I disappeared. In many senses. , Taylor Swift, via 'Vogue'.<br />Since then, Taylor has been much<br />more vocal about her political stances,<br />saying she feels “very differently” now. .<br />In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice<br />my political opinions, but due to several events<br />in my life and in the world in the past two years,<br />I feel very differently about that now, Taylor Swift, via 'Vogue'.
