It will be up to Super Bowl champions the Kansas City Chiefs to decide whether pop phenomenon Taylor Swift will be invited to the White House when they celebrate their win with President Joe Biden.
“That’s going to be up to the Chiefs — obviously their decision to figure out who’s going to come with them when they come,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday.
Jean-Pierre opened her briefing by congratulating the Chiefs for their 2024 Super Bowl 25-22 win Sunday over the San Francisco 49ers, including fans of Swift, who is dating Travis Kelce, the team’s tight end.
Biden’s campaign reportedly desires Swift’s endorsement before November’s 2024 election, most likely against former President Donald Trump, after her social media post encouraging supporters to register to vote last year resulted in more than 35,000 new applications through Vote.org. But Swift’s endorsement of Sen. Marsha Blackburn‘s (R-TN) opponent Phil Bredesen in 2018 did not help him succeed in his Senate race against the one-time House lawmaker.
That has not stopped Democrats from defending Swift and Kelce as conspiracy theories swirl about the couple’s relationship and their connections to the so-called deep state. For instance, critics have underscored Kelce’s own endorsement of Pfizer after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden’s campaign made light of the theories Sunday on social media.
“Just like we drew it up,” the president wrote.
Earlier, the White House stood by Swift and other women who have or could be targeted by AI-generated explicit images.
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“I’m glad you asked that question because it is alarming,” Jean-Pierre said last month. “We are alarmed by the reports of the circulation of images that you just laid out, false images, to be more exact, and it is alarming.”
“So, while social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and nonconsensual, intimate imagery of real people,” she added.
