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Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is betting that Taylor Swift fans can help prevent his state from turning red.<\/p>\n

The Democrat, who is running for the seat again on Nov. 2, has a new five-figure ad buy that connects his opponent, Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, to Swift’s bitter battle to gain control over the master recordings<\/a> of her first six albums, including Fearless<\/em>, Red <\/em>and 1989<\/em>. Youngkin is the former co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, which financially backed the 2019 sale of Swift’s masters to Ithaca Holdings, an umbrella company owned at the time by music manager Scooter Braun. Swift’s masters have since been sold again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Not everyone will see the ads connecting “T-Mac” and “T-Swift.” They’ll appear on Facebook and Instagram for users who engage with Swift’s content and on Google when people in Virginia search for her name. The Facebook ads appropriate the rallying cry #WeStandWithTaylor adopted by Swift’s fans, also known as Swifties, during the battle over her music.<\/p>\n

A handful of recent polls<\/a> show that neither candidate is out of the woods, yet. McAuliffe has a narrow lead over Youngkin less than a month out from elections seen as a national bellwether.<\/p>\n