Taylor Swift's Kamala Harris Endorsement Has Triggered a Donation Windfall—and Donald Trump

Once Taylor Swift dropped her long-anticipated endorsement of Kamala Harris on Tuesday night, minutes after Harris’s finale in her debate against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, those dominoes fell, just like she promised in “Mastermind.”

Harris’s first post-debate stop was her official watch party at Philadelphia’s Cherry Street Pier, where she walked onstage to her usual blaring hype-up music, Beyoncé’s “Freedom,” according to the press pooler. That recorded 11:10 walk-on time would have been just about 5-ish minutes after Swift’s social media post went live, while people were mostly texting “Taylor endorsed!!” and “is this real?”

“Hard work is good work, and we will win,” Harris told her supporters from the stage. In video, a member of the audience can be heard screaming “Taylor Swift endorsed!” sounding like, as one social media user noted, “the modern Paul Revere.”

By the time Harris walked offstage at 11:28 p.m., the news had sunk in and the playlist had been updated. Harris, riding the excitement of her night, exited the stage to Swift’s “The Man,” and the lyrical lament, “I’m so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I’d get there quicker if I was a man.”

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Harris’s rapid response team, too, lived up to their name, quickly posting an edit touting Swift’s endorsement and photos of Harris, set to Swift’s jock-jam-esque track “Ready for It.”