Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark declared that the “largest factor to do” is to register to vote after she “favored” Taylor Swift’s social media submit endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this week.
Swift, who has over 284 million followers, seemingly brought about a spike in visits to the federal authorities’s voter data web page after a submit that each backed Harris and known as on Swifties to do their “analysis” forward of the election.
The WNBA rookie, when requested by a reporter Wednesday if the “like” meant she’d additionally endorse Harris, declined to straight reply who she was supporting however mirrored on having what she known as an “wonderful platform.”
“I feel for myself, the second time I can vote in an election at age 22, I might vote after I was 18. So, I feel, do this,” mentioned Clark, who can be an obvious Swiftie.
“That’s the most important factor I can do with the platform that I’ve, and that’s the identical factor Taylor did.”
Clark, a favourite to win the WNBA Rookie of the Yr award this 12 months, known as on potent voters to proceed to “educate” themselves on the candidates together with the insurance policies they assist.
“I feel that’s the most important factor you are able to do and that’s what I might suggest to each single person who has the chance in our nation,” she mentioned.
Clark hasn’t revealed a lot of her political leanings, although the WNBA and its gamers are identified to be actively engaged in political and social affairs.
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Forward of the Paris Olympics, members of the Group USA girls’s basketball squad weighed in on the state of the election and sought a strategy to again Harris “as a lot” as they may after she launched her marketing campaign in July.
“As a result of every little thing that we’ve been sort of working for this 12 months … has been about voting rights, reproductive rights,” mentioned New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart, a member of the eventual Gold medal-winning workforce, on the time.
“The issues she stands for, we additionally stand for. So ensuring that we will positively keep united and proceed to push the message of registering to vote, realizing the place to vote and all of the sources behind it.”
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