A new poll has found that just under a fifth of Americans believe Taylor Swift is part of a conspiracy to help Joe Biden get re-elected in November. 

According to the polling, just under 1 in 5 Americans (18 per cent) said they believed in the conspiracy. 71 per cent of those who believe in the conspiracy identify with the Republican Party, while 83 per cent believe they will support Donald Trump in the upcoming election. In addition, nearly three-quarters (73 per cent) of those who believe the Swift conspiracy also believe the 2020 election outcome was fraudulent.

The conspiracy revolves around the idea that Swift is in cahoots with Biden, with the pair mobilising the singer’s massive cultural influence to win Biden a second term. The idea gained traction among right-wing circles after the singer began dating American footballer and Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce, with the Chiefs’ Super Bowl win fuelling the conspiracy to an even greater extent. Biden’s social media team responded to the win by posting a ‘Dark Brandon’ meme on Twitter and the caption: “Just like we drew it up.”

While Swift has expressed Democratic sympathies in the past – in 2018, she openly supported Democratic candidates in Tennessee, and in 2020 explicitly endorsed Joe Biden – but she is yet to endorse a 2024 candidate.

Donald Trump recently claimed on his social media platform Truth Social that Swift would be “disloyal” if she endorsed Biden, because she had benefited from the Music Modernization Act which passed while Trump was in office.

“The supposed Taylor Swift psyop conspiracy has legs among a decent number of Trump supporters,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute where the research was conducted, in a statement. “Even many who hadn’t heard about it before we polled them accept the idea as credible. Welcome to the 2024 election.”

Swift and Kelce seem unfazed by the claims their relationship is merely part of a grand, Democrat conspiracy. “You’re all crazy,” Kelce said in an interview with CBS before the Super Bowl. “Every last one of you, you’re crazy.”