On February 11, who will win the Super Bowl?
It is the question that millions of NFL fans and a good part of the country ask themselves, as the final of the US American Football League is the pinnacle sporting spectacle of the year, the third most watched on television, after the parade of Thanksgiving from New York and the Oscars.
However, in this election year, in an already charged atmosphere with more than nine months left until the elections, it is not only the people who are asking that question.
The circles closest to former President Donald Trump are also considering who will win in the game and are already suggesting that there is a complete rigging on the part of President Joe Biden that involves the league itself, one of its star players and who today is the most famous singer in the world: Taylor Swift.
“I wonder who will win the Super Bowl next month,” Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican and Trump's absolute supporter, wrote on Twitter
,
now
room.
“And I wonder if there will be a major presidential endorsement from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall,” he said, throwing the stone and hiding his hand, the very conservative 37-year-old millionaire.
The couple he referred to in his message is the most persecuted and analyzed in the last six months: the one formed by Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chief star Travis Kelce, both 34 years old.
They started dating last summer and since September the interpreter has attended most of the player's games.
all over the country.
She was also there last Sunday when the Missouri team made it to the grand national final, the Super Bowl, and, helped by the time change, she is also expected in Las Vegas on the 11th, even though she just has a concert in Tokyo. one day before.
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But in the universe that revolves around Trump, both the fact that the Chiefs reach the final (or could win it) and that Swift attends is all a manipulation of the media and of Biden's environment against the Republican candidate.
That environment has come to suggest that Swift is a secret Pentagon agent seeking Biden's re-election and that to have more power she has joined Kelce.
He, for his part, has participated in campaigns with Pfizer in favor of vaccination against covid, something unusual in the often conservative American soccer league.
But the league itself is changing in recent years: in 2016 Colin Kaepernick complained on the field about discrimination against African Americans, refusing to stand during the anthem;
In 2017, a large part of the NFL rose up against Trump in protest of violence by the police and against the African-American community (Kelce included).
Travis Kelce, player of the Kansas City Chiefs, in a game against the Denver Broncos in October 2023.Michael Owens (Getty Images)
Trump and his people don't like Swift or Kelce, and the media power of the couple and the NFL has become stratospheric thanks to her arrival—with millions and millions of followers around the world—to the league. football: they have grown from audiences to t-shirt sales.
A young, rich, Democratic-leaning woman placing a player and an eminently masculine and conservative league in another sphere of attention is something that has made many Republicans on the most conservative wing's heads explode.
On Sunday, when Swift appeared on the field to see Kelce, Fox began criticizing the CO₂ emissions of his plane.
But soon they went further.
Spokespeople for the previous occupant of the White House have dared to say that the Super Bowl is “rigged” to become the epicenter of “Democratic propaganda.”
“I already see something like: the Kansas City Chiefs win, they go to the Super Bowl, Swift appears at halftime and 'supports' Joe Biden with Kelce in the center of the field,” argued host Mike Crispi on Sunday, when they had place the two qualifying games that put the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers in the finals.
The arguments of the Republican tantrum dismantle themselves.
The final between the two teams from Missouri and California was expected.
Although there were doubts whether the Chiefs would make it, facing the strong Baltimore Ravens in the semifinal, their victory is not unexpected either.
In fact, this 2024 final is exactly the same one that was already played at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami (Florida) four years ago, on February 2, 2020, and which Kelce's Chiefs also won 31-20.
It is also logical that Swift is there although no, she will not sing in the intermission (Usher will);
She has been giving up doing it for years and this year, immersed in a huge tour, she didn't make sense.
Just as she doesn't have it either, that's where she expresses her support for Biden.
Maybe she will do it, as she already did in 2020, but when she decides herself.
Even if it's with a few cookies.
I spoke to @vmagazine about why I'll be voting for Joe Biden for president.
So apt that it's come out on the night of the VP debate.
Gonna be watching and supporting @KamalaHarris by yelling at the tv a lot.
And I also have custom cookies 🍪💪😘
📷 @inezandvinoodh pic.twitter.com/DByvIgKocr
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 7, 2020
Swift's popularity and fortune do not seem to have a ceiling: thanks to her tour
The Eras Tour
she has managed to become a billionaire, she has been chosen by
Time
as person of the year (the first in the world of entertainment to achieve this alone) and her base of fans is immense and intergenerational, thanks to his early country, his youthful pop and, now, his more folk and evolved songs.
For a year and a half she will give more than 150 concerts in about 40 cities around the world in which she reviews her 17-year career.
And besides, she has long since become the perfect target for Republicans.
For five years now, the artist, who initially tried to appear apart from politics, has publicly supported the most social policies;
For example, she is a great defender of the rights of the LGTBI community.
Therefore, she has been against Trump on more than one occasion.
In 2016, due to certain personal and professional problems, she remained silent, as she herself said in an interview with
Vogue
, but shortly after she began to speak publicly: in 2018 she supported two Democratic politicians in Tennessee (where she moved as a teenager in seeking a musical career and where he has two homes), and on his social networks he wrote that he could not vote for anyone who “does not fight for the dignity of all Americans, regardless of their skin color, gender or who they love.” .
Then Trump commented that he liked his music “25% less.”
Looking ahead to the next elections, he encouraged people to register to vote and even do so for Joe Biden.
In an interview with
The Guardian
in August 2019, he spoke about the right to abortion (“Obviously, I am in favor of being able to choose”) and against Trump: “We are a democracy, or at least that is what we assume, where you have the right to be in against, to disagree, to debate.
“I really think he thinks it’s an autocracy.”
Last September, Swift called on her fans to register to vote, and that day registrations increased by 35,000 people, the largest day in four years.
Taylor Swift celebrates with Travis Kelce as the Kansas City Chiefs advance to the final of the American Football League, the Super Bowl, on January 28 in Baltimore, Maryland.
It is true that the Biden Administration would be greatly benefited by being able to count on the support of the singer and her enormous base of acolytes (almost 100 million on X and 280 on Instagram).
An article in
The New York Times
stated on Monday that a gesture by “the pop sensation, who moves millions of followers” would be very important for the president's campaign.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked on Monday if the president would attend a concert by the artist, but she avoided answering: “I'm not going to get into the president's agenda when it comes to the 2024 elections.”
From Trump's side, no one has opened their mouths, but a
Rolling Stone
article states that the former president assumes that the singer will support the Democrat and that, far from getting angry, he has had an ego attack, ensuring that he is "more popular” than Swift and that her followers are more loyal.
The governor of California, Democrat Gavin Newsom, close to Biden, even said in September: “Taylor Swift remains strong and unique.
What she has been able to achieve, to get young people activated to see that they have their own voice, and that they should have a choice in the next election, is deeply powerful.”
But that support is very different from the search for media attention by Republicans, who also know well that placing Pennsylvania in any conversation sells, a lot.
Although the move, as Swift's millions of fans are able to show you if she resents the attacks on her idol, can backfire completely.
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