Opinion: Donald Trump might have Taylor Swift-kicked his chance to win Arizona

Arizona might be one of those states where Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Trump’s ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT’ response might backfire on him.

This column has been updated to fix a typo.

Not long after Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, Donald Trump went online and — channeling his fifth grade self (which is essentially no different than his 78-year-old self) — posted, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT.”

Swift, an actual grown-up who possesses actual class, did not respond with something like, “I’m rubber and you’re glue … .” She didn’t need to, since her endorsement led to 405,999 visits to the national voter registration site Vote.gov.

Trump and the members of his MAGA cult then derisively dismissed all things Taylor Swift.

Last week, however, USA Today reported that the data company Resonate, which uses an AI modeling system that, it says, “analyzes trillions of online interactions,” said that 2.3 million Americans in battleground states are among those who are more likely to be swayed by celebrity endorsements.

Among them, it said, were 161,000 Arizonans.

Taylor Swift has a larger following than Trump