--- title: Britney Spears Wasn't Ready to Endorse Hillary Clinton description: Spears made an Instagram post about her Las Vegas meeting with Clinton—but later deleted the #ImWithHer hashtag. canonical: https://time.com/4230425/britney-spears-hillary-clinton-endorsement/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-19T15:32:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:13:09.950Z article:section: Politics og:title: Britney Spears Apparently Wasn't Ready to Endorse Hillary Clinton og:description: When a deleted hashtag becomes a political statement og:url: https://time.com/4230425/britney-spears-hillary-clinton-endorsement/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Britney Spears Apparently Wasn't Ready to Endorse Hillary Clinton twitter:description: When a deleted hashtag becomes a political statement twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Britney Spears Apparently Wasn't Ready to Endorse Hillary Clinton by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Feb 19, 2016 3:32 PM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Feb 19, 2016 3:32 PM UTC While many Twitter users will tell you that retweets don’t equal endorsements, the same does not appear to apply to a hashtag. Britney Spears posted to social media about her [meeting with Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-meets-britney-spears-las-vegas/story?id=37046864) Thursday, as the Democratic frontrunner campaigns ahead of the Nevada caucuses. “Such an inspiration and beautiful voice for women around the world!!!” Spears wrote in her post on the popular photo blogging app. “This woman had an intense presence and I felt very honored to meet her!!!” The pop star reportedly used the Clinton’s official campaign hashtag #ImWithHer in the original caption for her Instagram post, but later edited the post and removed the hashtag, according to _ABC News_, leading many to consider it a [withdrawn endorsement](http://jezebel.com/oops-britney-spears-endorsed-clinton-then-took-it-bac-1760071904). It’s just as likely Spears, or whoever manages her social media platforms, considered the hashtag purely literal and was unaware of its political symbolism. Clinton, facing a steep challenge from rival Bernie Sanders in[ Saturday’s Democratic caucus](http://time.com/4228654/clinton-campaign-ad-nevada-caucuses/), also received an endorsement from celebrity favorite [Kendall Jenner](http://time.com/4229434/kendall-jenner-hillary-clinton-selfie/) on social media Thursday. She too used the hashtag #ImWithHer. Britney Spears Wasn't Ready to Endorse Hillary Clinton ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4230425/britney-spears-hillary-clinton-endorsement/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4230425/britney-spears-hillary-clinton-endorsement/"},"headline":"Britney Spears Apparently Wasn't Ready to Endorse Hillary Clinton","datePublished":"2016-02-19T15:32:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:13:09.950Z","description":"When a deleted hashtag becomes a political statement","url":"https://time.com/4230425/britney-spears-hillary-clinton-endorsement/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","elections","Britney Spears","celebrity","Nevada"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4230425/britney-spears-hillary-clinton-endorsement/","name":"Britney Spears Apparently Wasn't Ready to Endorse Hillary Clinton"}}]}] ```