Joe Biden is in his reelection era — just don’t ask his press secretary about it.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sidestepped questions Monday about a potential President Biden-Taylor Swift duet to boost the Democratic 2024 campaign — citing federal law to do so.
“Let me say first, I have to be really careful — I’m a federal employee,” Jean-Pierre laughingly told CNN’s John Berman in response to rumors the 81-year-old could make an appearance at one of the pops. “Eras Tour” dates are coming icon.
“As you know, there is something called the Hatch Act, so I certainly cannot speak to anything related to 2024 in the next election,” added Jean-Pierre – especially not denying the whispers.
“Obviously, there’s a lot, in my store, in the press office store, there’s a lot of Swifties, if you will, Taylor Swift fans,” he said. “I’m just going to leave it there. I’m not going to get into the president’s schedule at all from here, as it relates to the 2024 election.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged questions about the potential President Joe Biden-Taylor Swift 2024 campaign by invoking the federal Hatch Act. CNN’s Jean-Pierre invoked the law as he spoke about rumors Biden could make an appearance on one of Taylor Swift’s upcoming “Eras Tour” dates. AP
“The first time the Hatch Act was invoked was in relation to Taylor Swift,” Berman said firmly.
The Hatch Act, enacted in 1939, prohibits executive branch employees from using “official power or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the results of an election,” and Jean-Pierre has good reason to make a habit of it.
In June of last year, the Office of Independent Special Counsel determined the press secretary had broken the law — and possibly caused bad blood — ahead of the 2022 midterms by repeatedly using the words “Mega MAGA Republicans” from the White House briefing room in reference to GOP candidates.
Taylor Swift is endorsing President Biden in 2020 but has yet to publicly express her support behind his re-election campaign. AFP via Getty Images
Since then, Jean-Pierre has often cited the move to leave a blank space in response to several questions related to the presidential campaign effort.
Berman’s query was in response to a New York Times report that Biden’s campaign staff had put the 34-year-old Swift at the top of their endorsement wish list following her multibillion-dollar tour and her highly publicized and scrutinized romance with the Kansas City Chiefs. tight end Travis Kelce.
Among the ideas reported to have been considered: Sending Biden to one of the singer’s concerts when the “Eras Tour” returns to the US starting in late October — although the Times admitted the suggestion was made “a bit in jest”.
In fact, the outlet added, the campaign has been forced to warn potential applicants for social media jobs not to explain their “Taylor Swift strategy” – because it already has enough ideas.
Swift took her first tentative step into the world of political advocacy in 2018, when she endorsed former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen for Senate. Bredesen lost that race to Republican Marsha Blackburn.
Undeterred, the singer endorsed Biden in 2020.
While Swift has not spoken about the race so far this cycle, she has given no indication that she will change her support if, as seems likely, Biden faces Donald Trump in November.
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