WASHINGTON ― Politics can often be a dog-eat-dog world, but this campaign season has truly gone to the cats.
The cat-crazed 2024 election reached a fever pitch Tuesday night when, during his first debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump repeated a baseless and racist claim that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets, including their cats.
“The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame,” Trump said, as Harris ― along with much of the U.S., collectively ― shook her head in disbelief.
Then, moments after the debate ended, one of the world’s most famous cat ladies, pop megastar Taylor Swift, broke her silence on the presidential race and offered an endorsement of Harris. “With love and hope, Taylor Swift[,] Childless Cat Lady,” Swift wrote on Instagram, below an iconic photo with one of her…