When asked Wednesday if her “like” equaled an endorsement for Kamala Harris, Caitlin Clark encouraged people to register to vote.
Rather than endorsing a candidate for president, Caitlin Clark prefers to send a message with her T-shirt. (Darron Cummings/Associated Press)
Caitlin Clark may have clicked “like” on Taylor Swift’s Instagram post endorsing Kamala Harris for president, but she stopped short of verbally proclaiming her support for the vice president, preferring instead to urge people to educate themselves and vote.
The Indiana Fever rookie was one of more than 10 million users who liked the post by the singer and self-proclaimed “childless cat lady,” who endorsed Harris by writing in part after Tuesday night’s presidential debate, “I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.”
As with everything the women’s basketball star does, Clark’s click drew a ton of attention. Her caitlinclark22 account has 2.9 million followers. Swift’s message to her 284 million followers included a plea to vote that drew more than 300,000 users to the link she provided. Like Swift, Clark recognized the influential reach that social media gives her.
“I have this amazing platform, so I think the biggest thing would be just to encourage people to register to vote,” the former Iowa star told reporters who asked Wednesday if her “like” equaled an endorsement for Harris. “I think for myself, this is the second time I can vote in an election at age 22. I could vote when I was 18, so I think, do that. That’s the biggest thing I can do with the platform that I have, and that’s the same thing Taylor did.
“I think continuing to educate yourself with the candidates that we have, the policies that they’re supporting. I think that’s the biggest thing you can do, and that’s what I would recommend to every single person that has that opportunity in our country.”
Early in her inaugural WNBA season, Clark said it was “disappointing” and “not acceptable” that some people have used her name to promote racism and misogyny. “… Treating every single woman in this league with the same amount of respect, I think, it’s just a basic human thing that everybody should do,” she said in June.
Players and the league have a history of social and political involvement, and some members of Team USA emphasized their support for Harris before the Paris Olympics.
“We have been talking, especially with the social justice committee, finding a way to make sure that we can obviously back Kamala as much as we can. Because everything that we’ve been kind of working for this year … has been about voting rights, reproductive rights,” Breanna Stewart said in July.
“The things she stands for, we also stand for. So making sure that we can definitely stay united and continue to push the message of registering to vote, knowing where to vote and all the resources behind it.”
Players used their clout in 2020 to protest then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler and owner of the Atlanta Dream over her opposition to Black Lives Matter. Loeffler no longer owns the team and lost a runoff election against the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, now one of Georgia’s senators.
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