This week, Townhall covered how singer Taylor Swift announced on Instagram that she would be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. This came after Harris’ debate against former President Donald Trump.
Swift has over 284 million followers. But, a poll showed that more voters said that her endorsement would turn them away from voting for Harris than support her.
This week, music producer Pharrell Williams, who has created songs for Britney Spears, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Nelly, and Camila Cabello, said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that he is “annoyed” by celebrity endorsements for the upcoming election.
"I don’t do politics. In fact, I get annoyed sometimes when I see celebrities trying to tell you [who to vote for]," Williams revealed in the interview.
“There are celebrities that I respect that have an opinion, but not all of them. I’m one of them people [who says], ‘What the heck? Shut up. Nobody asked you.’ When people get out there and get self-righteous and they roll up their sleeves and shit, and they are out there walking around with a placard: ‘Shut up!’ So, no, I would rather stay out of the way, and obviously, I’m going to vote how I’m going to vote. I care about my people and I care about the country, but I feel there’s a lot of work that needs to be done, and I’m really about the action,” he continued.
“Some policies I lean into; I think education is important…I’m not an activist, but I believe in action. But I do believe in activists, and you need everybody,” he mentioned.
Townhall covered how Shailene Woodley, an award-winning actress and outspoken liberal, was the target of attacks from the Left after she showed support for the Trump family after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.
“I was in circles of people that I deeply respect — friends, colleagues, progressive, very intelligent thinkers, shakers and movers — and many of them were saying, ‘He missed! F*cking assassin missed! Maybe it was a setup. Maybe it was a conspiracy.’ I was going, ‘Have we forgotten that two human lives were taken?’ Two people died. That is sad. That is devastating. I could not understand how people were speaking about something with such passion for death,” Woodley told Bustle in an interview.
Woodley posted a photo of Melania Trump’s statement after the assassination attempt.
“I posted that letter because I thought it was a beautiful message of human compassion, and then I forgot about it because I have a life and I don’t live for what social media says,” Woodley explained.
“Then a week later, I got a text from a friend that said, ‘Are you OK?’ I Googled my name, because I’m like, ‘Oh f*ck, what did I say?’ And of course, there were all these news articles about Melania Trump, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, that is now this? Hundreds of articles because I posted about a woman saying she’s grateful her husband is alive? Really?’” she said. “It made me shake my head.”