Doug Emhoff was tasked with getting Taylor Swift to stump for his wife, Kamala Harris, on her ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign — but failed to seal the deal, according to a new book.
Rumors swirled on Election Day eve that the chart-topping pop star would perform, or at least make an appearance, at the then-vice president’s final rally in Philadelphia, near Swift’s hometown of West Redding, Pa.
The “Love Story” singer, however, had apparently already rebuffed the former second gentleman’s efforts to get her to do anything more than endorse the failed Democratic presidential nominee, journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf explain in their forthcoming book, “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America.”
“Swift proved to be a special challenge,” the authors of the new book, due out Tuesday, explained. “Staffers who worked on celebrity appearances were instructed not to make any outreach to her universe; Doug Emhoff was handling it.”
Emhoff, a former Los Angeles entertainment lawyer, had a prior relationship with Swift’s attorney, Doug Baldridge, and had reached out to him “to convey that the campaign would appreciate any efforts the pop star could make to help Harris” before Swift’s surprise post-debate endorsement, the book claimed.
