Who Is Jenna Piwowarczyk? Taylor Swift Fan Who Started ‘Swifties for Trump’

Jenna Piwowarczyk, a student at Concordia College, started a group called “Swifites for Trump,” to encourage Taylor Swift fans to vote for former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election.
On Sunday, the former president reposted content on his social media plaftorm Truth Social about the “Swifties for Trump” group and even reposted an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated photo of Swift telling people to vote for him. In his caption, Trump wrote: “I accept!”
Piwowarczyk, 19, celebrated Trump acknowledging the group and said in a video posted to YouTube that she met Trump at a Wisconsin rally in June while wearing her “Swifties for Trump” shirt.
“I think this movement is super awesome and also super important because it’s no secret that millions of young female voters consider themselves Swifties and we don’t want them to have to choose between loving Taylor Swift and supporting conservative ideologies at the ballot box in November,” Piwowarczyk said in the video.
Swift rarely wades into politics and has yet to endorse anyone this election cycle. However, Swift spoke out against Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, in 2018 and endorsed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2020 presidential election.
Piwowarczyk told Newsweek on Monday via email that the response to the group has been “huge,” although she doesn’t expect Swift to endorse anyone this election cycle. She acknowledged that Swift has fans on both sides of the political aisle and speculated that the recent ISIS terror threat that forced the singer to cancel her concert in Vienna, Austria, wouldn’t have happened if Trump was in office.
Newsweek polling in May found that 22 percent of Biden’s 2020 voters would be more likely to vote for a Republican if Swift endorsed them. It was a 9-point increase from January when a Newsweek poll found only 13 percent of Biden’s 2020 supporters would be more likely to vote for a Swift-endorsed Republican candidate.
Piwowarczyk has been to six Swift concerts, with her first being during the singer’s Red Tour in 2013. Then, she went to the 1989 Tour in 2015 and the Reputation Stadium Tour in 2018. Piwowarczyk has also seen Swift three times in her latest Eras Tour.
The 19-year-old grew up in Wisconsin and attended Hartford Union High School, according to records obtained by Newsweek. While in high school she started a chapter of the Young America’s Foundation, a nonprofit conservative youth organization.
Her father, Jim Piwowarczyk, is the founder of Wisconsin Right Now, a digital news platform based out of Wisconsin. Jenna’s written several op-eds for the outlet, including one criticizing a New York Times essay that floated the theory that Swift is a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
“At what point do the ultra-liberal figures, as many see Taylor Swift to be, become not liberal enough? This story has proven that one cannot simply be an ally of the LGBTQ to be accepted or even enough for pop culture- one must be fully submerged in the ideology,” she wrote early this year.
Republicans have been critical of Swift and speculated that she’ll do a last minute endorsement of Harris and potentially change the outcome of the election. In a book that was published in June by Variety’s co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, Trump reportedly said he was surprised that Swift was liberal and asked if she was “legitimately liberal.” He added that she’s “beautiful” and “talented,” but that she “probably doesn’t like Trump.”
Nearly one-third of Trump’s supporters believe Swift will vote for him in November, according to a Newsweek poll from May. About 40 percent of Trump voters consider themselves Swift fans, compared to 59 percent of Biden’s supporters.
Jenna, a registered voter, told Newsweek that she describes herself as conservative who votes for “ideology rather than a party.”
Trump sharing the AI-generated images of Swift sparked strong reactions from her fans. One fan on social media questioned why he’d risk angering Swift, with some legal experts saying the singer could even sue the former president over the images.
Jenna told Newsweek that she’s had fans reach out to her in support of the “Swifties for Trump” group, as well. With a politically diverse fan base, she said Swifties who are supporting Trump are likely doing so because they’re getting older and unhappy with the economy.
“My generation is realizing that a Trump administration is needed for a successful future,” Jenna said.