Country artist Luke Combs is shedding insight as to why he prefers to keep his political beliefs under wraps. While appearing on the New York Times' "Popcast" during the Tuesday, February 24, episode, Combs, 35, was asked if he regretted speaking out amid the current political climate. (Combs previously addressed racism during the Black Lives Matter movement and apologized for his past use of Confederate flag imagery.) "No, I don't think it would make me do anything different, right?" he replied. "There's always someone in one of my videos like, 'Luke Combs, well he's a liberal.