Ousted CNN anchor Don Lemon points pressing demand from Taylor Swift earlier than election

Ousted CNN anchor Don Lemon is urging pop famous person Taylor Swift to return ahead and endorse Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in a bid to encourage youthful voters to forged their poll for her come November.

Lemon, 58, made his plea to DailyMail.com as he walked the streets of Greenwich Village in New York Metropolis on Friday. 

Swift, who has nearly 500 million followers between her social media accounts has extra not too long ago steered away from politics preferring as an alternative to not intervene in order to not alienate her fan base, often called ‘Swifties’, though she did converse out in 2020.

However so far as Lemon is anxious, time is of the essence and believes Swift ought to make her political allegiances clear as soon as once more.

‘Taylor Swift must step ahead. She’s very influential. She will be able to transfer an election,’ Lemon stated.

‘If she believes in ladies’s reproductive rights and a ladies’s proper to decide on – and in democracy, I’d say that Taylor Swift wants to return by means of. It will be a wasted alternative if she doesn’t use her platform for good,’ Lemon stated.

Swift has beforehand criticized the GOP nominee and vowed to ‘vote [him] out’ forward of the 2020 election after being left ‘utterly blindsided’ by his 2016 victory.

Forward of Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton, Swift saved quiet on her political leanings main some to suspect she was truly a secret Republican.

However in the course of the 2018 midterms, she voiced sturdy help for Tennessee Democrats together with Senate candidate Phil Bredesen and Home candidate Jim Cooper.

She defined in an Instagram submit: ‘Up to now I have been reluctant to publicly voice my political beliefs, however resulting from a number of occasions in my life and on the planet previously two years, I really feel very otherwise about that now.

‘I all the time have and all the time will forged my vote primarily based on which candidate will shield and battle for the human rights I consider all of us deserve on this nation.’

In 2020, the Clean Area singer got here out in full help of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

‘I’ll proudly vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on this 12 months’s presidential election,’ she stated. ‘Beneath their management, I consider America has an opportunity to start out the therapeutic course of it so desperately wants,’ she stated in an interview with V Journal forward of the election.’

She additionally tagged Trump in an X submit blasting him: ‘After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your total presidency, you could have the nerve to feign ethical superiority earlier than threatening violence? ‘When the looting begins the capturing begins’??? We’ll vote you out in November.’

In her documentary, Miss Americana, which got here out in 2020, Swift addressed her determination to talk publicly about politics additional saying: ‘I must be on the appropriate facet of historical past.’

Swift has been an in depth ally of the LGBTQ neighborhood. She additionally slammed the US Supreme Courtroom after it overturned Roe v Wade ending the constitutional proper to an abortion in 2022.

The Swifties have mobilized to throw their help behind Vice President Kamala Harris with the ‘@Swifties4Kamala’ X account already attracting 76,000 followers.

Throughout final month’s Democratic Nationwide Committee conference in Chicago, the occasion even paid homage to Swift with stations the place DNC attendees may make friendship bracelets – that are traded by Swifties at concert events and fan meet-ups.

The New York Instances reported earlier this 12 months that Joe Biden’s marketing campaign had been actively looking for Swift’s endorsement.

Trump has beforehand questioned whether or not Swift is ‘legitimately liberal’ or if it is all an act.

The previous president mentioned the megastar in an interview with Selection co-Editor-in-Chief Ramin Setoodeh for his e-book Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Via the Wanting Glass which was launched in June.

‘She is liberal, or is that simply an act?’ Trump requested. ‘She’s legitimately liberal? It isn’t an act?’

He added: ‘It surprises me {that a} nation star might be profitable being liberal.’

Lemon was fired from CNN in April 2023 following a brief and disastrous run as a morning present host.

His sudden downfall got here months after he had stated then-Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was previous her prime. 

CNN chairman and CEO on the time Chris Licht introduced that they’d ‘parted methods.’ Lemon characterised it as a firing and stated it was shock to him.

‘After 17 years at CNN I’d have thought somebody in administration would have the decency to inform me instantly,’ Lemon stated. 

CNN provided no public rationalization for Lemon’s dismissal. 

Through the dialogue which in the end led to his departure alongside co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins concerning the ages of politicians, he stated that Haley was not ‘in her prime.’ 

A lady, he stated, was thought of in her prime ‘in her 20s, 30s and possibly her 40s.’ 

Harlow challenged Lemon, attempting to make clear what he was referencing: ‘I feel we have to qualify. Are you speaking about prime for childbearing or are you speaking about prime for being president?’ 

‘Do not shoot the messenger, I am simply saying what the information are,’ Lemon responded.