The Taylor Swift timing is genius, really

[EarlG]

6. My counterpoint to your argument is that

winning one news cycle is not as important as timing the announcement so that it has the maximum possible impact on the people that it is intended to reach. Millions of previously disinterested people will be taking their first look at Harris tomorrow morning and the headlines are going to be very positive. It’s the perfect time for these people, a majority of whom will be young women, to be introduced to Harris. I note that the campaign just happened to add all their policy proposals to their website a couple of days ago too.

(Your post does make me wonder whether this was coordinated to the extent that if the debate hadn’t gone so well, Swift would have held off in order to make a bigger splash later on…)