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Notably, 42 percent of those who believe in Swift’s theory also say they had not heard of it before being contacted for the survey.
The poll comes after the spread of conspiratorial thinking on the right that Sunday’s Super Bowl was rigged in favor of Swift’s boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, to give Swift a prime platform to give your support to President Joe Biden.
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy
intervened in the conspiracy theory before the Super Bowl, questioning whether there would be “a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally supported couple this fall.”
The Chiefs managed to defeat the San Francisco 49ers (with Swift cheering on Kelce in the stands), but there was no backup.
Last month, Fox News host Jesse Watters speculated that Swift could be “a front for a covert political agenda,” something a Pentagon spokesperson dismissed. Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro also urged Swift not to “get involved in politics.” “We don’t want to see you there.”
“The absurdity of it all is baffling,” a senior administration official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the matter, told POLITICO earlier this month. “It feels like one of those ‘tell me you’re a MAGA conspiracy theorist, without telling me you’re a MAGA conspiracy theorist’ memes.”
Meanwhile,
The New York Times reported last month that Biden’s campaign hopes Swift will endorse him after the pop star did so in 2020. Trump says an endorsement of Biden in 2024 would make Swift “disloyal.”
The Monmouth University survey was conducted by telephone Feb. 8-12 with 902 adults in the United States. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.