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\u201cIt was riskier for her to start speaking out about politics than it is for me,\u201d the singer-songwriter says.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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John Legend\u00a0said he\u2019s \u201calways respected\u201d\u00a0Taylor Swift\u00a0for being \u201cwilling to take that risk\u201d in openly sharing her political views.<\/p>\n

The EGOT\u00a0winner, who has been vocal about his support for\u00a0Kamala Harris\u00a0in the upcoming presidential election, recently told\u00a0The Independent<\/em>\u00a0that he understands it\u2019s more difficult for the pop superstar to speak out given her fanbase.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was always really difficult for Taylor to speak out for liberal and progressive candidates coming from the country music world, where the fanbase is a lot more conservative,\u201d Legend said. \u201cIt was riskier for her to start speaking out about\u00a0politics\u00a0than it is for me. I always respected the fact that she was willing to take that risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer-songwriter added that he thought Swift shared the \u201cperfect statement\u201d when she announced on social media earlier this week\u00a0that she was endorsing Harris. \u201cI\u2019m voting for [Kamala Harris] because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them,\u201d the \u201cFortnight\u201d artist wrote in part. \u201cI think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Swift was known to stay away from politics earlier in her career, she ultimately spoke out in 2018, endorsing Democratic\u00a0candidates\u00a0Phil Bredesen\u00a0and\u00a0Jim Cooper\u00a0in the\u00a0U.S. midterm elections\u00a0in her home state\u00a0of Tennessee. She later endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020.<\/p>\n

As for Legend, he believes Harris \u201cshould be our next president,\u201d because \u201cshe\u2019s more presidential, she\u2019s more intelligent, she understands the problems of the American people better and has better solutions,\u201d compared to Republican nominee\u00a0Donald Trump,\u00a0who he described as\u00a0\u201cutterly toxic, unqualified and was manifestly terrible at his job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his interview with\u00a0The Independent<\/em>, the \u201cAll of Me\u201d singer opened up about the double standards women face in society, including his wife Chrissy Teigen, who is constantly scrutinized for her appearance, outfits and parenting style.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly just hope we all get better with how we treat women,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s abundantly clear to me, from my observation of what happens with Chrissy, that it\u2019s harder to be a woman in public than it is to be a man. You see women running for office or women trying to lead a company \u2014 they get criticisms that just wouldn\u2019t be thrown at a man in a similar circumstance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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