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Taylor Swift skewers Marsha Blackburn for representing “no female interests”: “She’s Trump in a wig”

"She won by being a female applying to the kind of female males want us to be in a horrendous 1950s world"

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Taylor Swift and Marsha Blackburn (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Mat Hayward/GC Images/Salon)
Taylor Swift and Marsha Blackburn (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Mat Hayward/GC Images/Salon)

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In her new Netflix documentary Miss Americana, singer Taylor Swift takes aim at Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn and compares her to Trump in a scene where the entertainer is shown reacting to Blackburn’s victory in the 2018 race that saw her become the first female senator to represent Tennessee —  a state that both Swift and Blackburn call home.

“She gets to be the first female senator in Tennessee, and she’s Trump in a wig,” Swift says. “She represents no female interests. She won by being a female applying to the kind of female males want us to be in a horrendous 1950s world.”

Swift also takes a swipe at Blackburn over her her 2013 vote against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and stance against same-sex marriage.

“It’s really basic human rights, and it’s right and wrong at this point, and I can’t see another commercial and see her disguising these policies behind the words ‘Tennessee Christian values,'” Swift says, getting emotional. “Those aren’t Tennessee Christian values. I live in Tennessee. I am Christian. That’s not what we stand for.”

Read more over at CNN.

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