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[Nanjeanne]

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[mcar]

1. Woo hoo!

[Botany]

2. An Ohio girl is making me proud.

Some of her family lives close to Columbus and I saw her out a local
restaurant and she is tiny. This act is a game changer. How many
young ladies ladies follow Ms. Biles? And how many vote?

[Traildogbob]

3. Wow!!!

Taylor, your move.
Biles is such a great American hero.
Never ceases to amaze me.

[Iwasthere]

15. Taylor could have concerts for Harris and generate tons $$$

[Traildogbob]

22. Her and Beyonc

And not even have to fly through the air. Though I am not sure they can not fly.

[MontanaMama]

20. It's probably coming from Taylor Swift.

She posted this photo to her official Instagram page:



Taylor’s timing is typically impeccable.

[Traildogbob]

24. Here we go again

Relying on women to save our country, and the world. If only we had just admitted a little over 3000 years ago, GOD is A Woman, imagine where we could be. Certainly not in the brink of another world war.

[a kennedy]

4. Shut up......for real??? that is so awesome. Thank you Simone.

[TwilightZone]

5. I'd like to see independent verification of this before getting too excited.

At present "Electroboy" is the only source. There's nothing on SI or elsewhere.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

10. Probably be waiting a while

I'd expect confirmation around the time of that big Taylor Swift/Beyonce concert...

[TwilightZone]

16. I suspect the same.

It's amazing how we'll bite on anything, even when the only source is some random X poster plugging his page.

[Sympthsical]

21. My disappointment

In going to his Twitter page and discovering it is not in fact a repository for EDM tracks is boundless.

[Attilatheblond]

14. As in my reply below, this is presumptive at best

and could be totally false or an attempt to manipulate the young woman. When I hear it from her, then I will know it is true and not just some wishful thinking on someone else's part.

[TwilightZone]

18. Agreed.

Considering that this is presently the only source, I suspect we've been had.

Well, not all of us....

I'd be happy to be wrong. We'll see.

[Sky Jewels]

6. If that happens the symbolism will be just SO fucking satisfying!

[unblock]

7. Dang! Her net worth supposedly is $20 million. $4 million is a big chunk

I mean yeah, it's all crazy money and being left with a measly $16 million is hardly going to impoverish her.

Still, giving 20% of your net worth to any one cause is pretty massive.

[Nanjeanne]

11. Her husband is an NFL football player so I'm sure he's able to contribute a few bucks!

[unblock]

19. I'm seeing $2-5 million for his net worth online.

I don't know the big football names these days, but it seems she's the rock star in terms of endorsements.

Regardless, $4 million is huge, and it's certainly not likely a contribution in the expectation of legislation favorable to her business, like some contributions might be (particularly for republicans).

She obviously feels very strongly about this campaign.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Maybe she figures she can parlay her recent wins into more endorsements.

So she can cover the donation.

Maybe she figures she can get some sort of honorary position in the Harris administration.

Maybe she figures that gd little twerp JD Vance who dissed her in public needs a big FU right back
in public and is willing to shell out $4m to do it.

[Mysterian]

8. Holy cow!

There's better money in that gymnastics than I thought.

Biles is such a beautiful soul.

[FakeNoose]

9. Simone Biles has earned multi-millions from product endorsements

Also I've seen her in a lot of ads for the Olympics in the past several years. I guess NBC makes most of those ads, and she gets paid every time they're on the air. But the big money comes from Nike and other product endorsements.

Thank you Simone Biles!

[Attilatheblond]

12. Saying 'will formally announce' is a bit presumptive.

Let the young woman make her own announcement if that is what she intends. Someone else announcing what may or may not be accurate is putting words in the young woman's mouth, and that just isn't polite or proper.

One can see, and hope for this to happen, but the young woman should be the one to say it, or not say it, as is her decision.

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. Hope she's at the convention

That would be so awesome!

[Celerity]

23. Until I see official confirmation I am going to call this a rumour.

[TwilightZone]

25. I suspect it's less a rumor...

than something "Electroboy" just made up.

[TommieMommy]

26. Simone is a great lady 😁

[TwilightZone]

27. She can't donate that much to the campaign. She'd have to donate to a Super PAC, etc.

I suspect this is fake. It should probably be deleted until independent confirmation is provided.

If it's fake, we're just spreading misinformation.

[Mosby]

28. I thought there was a $5000 limit.

?

[TwilightZone]

30. $3,300 limit to the candidate committee.

$5,000 is the limit to a PAC.

The OP is almost assuredly false.

[Mosby]

32. 👍

Thanks for the info.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

29. she hasn't won 4 gold. She won 3 gold and 1 silver at the Olympics

[TwilightZone]

31. Correct. The tweet says "medals"

The OP seems to have added the "gold".

[tman]

33. Beware of FAKE news.

[Nanjeanne]

34. Ooops - will delete