Chappell Roan reveals she’s voting for Kamala Harris after online backlash
Chappell Roan revealed in a TikTok video that she’s voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in November, though she stopped short of endorsing the Democratic presidential candidate.
Pop star Chappell Roan revealed in a TikTok video Wednesday that she’s voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in November, though she stopped short of endorsing the Democratic presidential candidate. The singer-songwriter’s announcement followed an intense and dayslong online backlash from her liberal fanbase.
The criticism was fueled after Roan, 26, told The Guardian in an interview last week that she didn’t “feel pressured to endorse someone” in the 2024 presidential election because there are “problems on both sides.” Some critics slammed her for the “both sides” comment in particular, pointing to widespread differences between Republican and Democratic policy positions on LGBTQ issues. Others called her a “closet Republican.”
In response to the backlash, Roan released a TikTok video Tuesday saying she was not voting for former President Donald Trump, though that message did little to quell the fan fury.
Visibly frustrated with her critics, Roan on Wednesday tried to clear the air for good on where she stands on the 2024 election.
“I’m not going to settle for what the options that are in front of me, and you’re not going to make me feel bad for that,” Roan said in a TikTok video that has been viewed more than 3 million times. “So yeah, I’m voting for f---ing Kamala, but I’m not settling for what has been offered, because that’s questionable.”
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