“People may find themselves in cognitive dissonance, where their identity and how they see the world are in conflict with other parts of their identity,” Collins added. “There has to be some sense of reconciliation.”
The pop superstar announced on Tuesday night that she would be voting for Harris “because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.”
Swift stated that she chose the Harris-Tim Walz ticket after conducting her own research. In her post, she encouraged her Instagram followers to do the same and shared a link to Vote.org, a resource to help people register to vote in their home state.
“She knows that she’s speaking to a number of people who will be voting either for the first time ever or for the first time for a president,” Megan Duncan, an associate professor at Virginia Tech specializing in political communication, told ABC News. “And she knows that getting that bit of education about how to register and that you can vote early in many states is the stuff that celebrities are effective at.”
