Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark liked Taylor Swift’s Instagram post on Tuesday in which the Grammy-winning singer endorsed presidential candidate Kamala Harris for the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Clark’s gesture was met with much hate as many took to the star rookie’s Instagram comment section to voice their opinion while they vowed themselves off as her fans because of the act.
Oh boy.
Caitlin Clark’s instagram comments are filled with folks angry she liked Taylor Swift’s post. pic.twitter.com/HtceSlQuLB
— Vanshay Murdock 🎥🎥 (@VanshayM) September 12, 2024
Meanwhile, many other WNBA fans stood by Caitlin Clark and took to X, formerly Twitter, as they reacted to the hate comments on Clark’s Instagram.
“maga people are insane. so ridiculous,” a fan tweeted.
“She should be like Taylor Swift, not care. CC has millions of supportive fans in the world, too many to be worrying about a few deserters. Say Bye Bye 👋🏻” a fan tweeted.
“Good riddance. They’ve been the ones giving her fans a bad name all season,” a fan tweeted.
“Honestly, I hope these kind of people stop being her fans and go back to ignoring the W,” a fan tweeted.
“Guarantee not more than one of those comments, if that even, is someone who’s actually watched a single minute of any women’s sporting event. Those people are completely unserious,” a fan tweeted.
“Just fake fans of sport and CC. Good to weave them out. Do not need politics in sports and personally I do not care who she votes for! It is her business,” a fan tweeted.
Caitlin Clark expands on ‘Liking’ Taylor Swift’s pro-Kamala Harris post
In the postgame interview following the Indiana Fever‘s loss to the Las Vegas Aces on Wednesday, Caitlin Clark expanded on her liking Taylor Swift’s Instagram post endorsing Kamala Harris. When asked if her “like” on the post meant that she was also going to endorse Harris for the elections, Clark handled the question skillfully.
“I think for myself, I have this amazing platform, so I think the biggest thing would be to encourage people to register to vote,” Clark said. “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. That’s the same thing Taylor did.
“And I think continue 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.”
