Love Is Blind Is Getting Political—and I Want More

He quickly follows up by explaining that his views changed after seeing the way Trump behaved in office, adding that he voted for President Biden in 2020. He tells Davis, “I will happily admit that my first vote wasn’t the most educated vote.”

It's an interesting contrast—and the first time I can recall a reality star on a dating show being so explicit about how they voted. During The Bachelor's 25th season, which featured the first Black male lead, winner Rachel Kirkconnell came under fire after fans found pictures in which she wore antebellum clothing. This occurred amidst tense racial political relations in the country and served as another example of how reality television doesn't exist in a vacuum as much as people might wish it did.

In previous seasons of Love Is Blind, viewers were only left to guess at contestants' political affiliations through generally coded language, like “liberal” or “conservative” or a “patriot,” as Sarah Ann Bick described herself in season six.

The guessing game continued in the pods between Taylor Krause, 30, and Garrett Josemans, 33, when Taylor withheld her ethnicity from Garrett. As a half-Chinese and half-white woman, Taylor said that she didn't want her race to impact the experiment of falling in love blindly, or for her to fall into a fetishization trope that is common amongst Asian women. Garrett admitted that he's only dated white women before, saying, “It is a new feeling for me…I'm not sure what that looks like for me either, going forward.”