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Vice President Harris is seeking to maximize turnout from women voters successful the last days earlier the predetermination successful anticipation the captious voting artifact tin transportation her implicit the decorativeness line.
While overmuch of the speech successful the closing days of the run has surrounded Harris’s brushed enactment among men, Democrats reason that women person the accidental to boost Harris. They constituent to the voting bloc’s relation successful securing Democratic wins successful the 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections.
But Republicans stay skeptical that women, peculiarly suburban women successful plaything states, volition beryllium a shoo-in for Harris, pointing to concerns implicit the economy.
“Kamala Harris is positioned to triumph this predetermination due to the fact that of women,” said Jessica Mackler, the president of EMILY’s List, a radical dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women to office.
On Wednesday, the Harris run hammered Trump for defending comments helium made successful September, successful which helium pledged to beryllium a “protector of women.” During a rally connected Wednesday, Trump said helium disagreed with counsel from his advisers that helium not usage that language.
“I said, ‘Well, I’m going to bash it whether the women similar it oregon not. I’m going to support them. I’m going to support them from migrants coming in. I’m going to support them from overseas countries that privation to deed america with missiles and tons of different things,’” Trump told supporters successful Wisconsin.
Harris responded to Trump’s remarks connected Thursday, calling them “the latest successful a bid of reveals by the erstwhile president of however helium thinks astir women and their agency.”
"It really is precise violative to women successful presumption of not knowing their agency, their authority, their close and their quality to marque decisions astir their ain lives, including their ain bodies,” the vice president told reporters successful Wisconsin.
And earlier this week, the Harris run released an advertisement featuring histrion Julia Roberts successful which she encouraged women to ballot for the vice president adjacent if their husbands were backing Trump.
“In the 1 spot successful America wherever women inactive person a close to choose, you tin ballot immoderate mode you want. And nary 1 volition ever know,” Roberts says successful the spot.
Meanwhile, the Trump run worked to amplify comments from Harris run surrogate Mark Cuban, successful which helium told ABC’s “The View” connected Thursday that “you ne'er spot [Trump] astir strong, intelligent women.”
Trump’s nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt tied Harris to the comments successful a connection to The Hill.
“Kamala Harris' run thinks women who enactment President Trump are anemic and dumb, and she takes contented with President Trump wanting to support women, men, and children from migrant transgression and overseas adversaries,” Leavitt said.
“Women merit a President who volition unafraid our nation's borders, region convulsive criminals from our neighborhoods, and physique an system that helps our families thrive — and that's precisely what President Trump volition do,” she continued.
On policy, Harris and her allies person sought to amplify termination entree and reproductive wellness attraction successful the closing salvos of the campaign, tying it to her campaign’s taxable of “freedom.”
Amanda Zurawski, a Texas pistillate who sued the authorities aft she said she was denied an termination portion facing gestation complications, delivered remarks alongside her hubby up of Harris’s ain closing statement remarks astatine the Ellipse extracurricular the White House connected Tuesday.
Harris herself addressed the contented successful her remarks, telling supporters she volition “restore what Donald Trump and his manus selected Supreme Court Justices took distant from the women of America.”
“Kamala Harris has delivered this truly wide connection astir the contrast, peculiarly connected the contented of reproductive freedom,” Mackler said.
Democrats constituent to their past occurrence connected the issue. In 2022, Democrats mostly blunted what was expected to beryllium a reddish question successful astir parts of the state by focusing connected termination entree successful the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The effects were besides felt a twelvemonth aboriginal successful Virginia’s off-year elections, wherever Democrats took power of the state’s wide assembly.
In 2024, Harris and Democrats are tying Trump to bans and restrictions connected the process astatine the authorities level.
“What we person seen since the Dobbs determination successful each predetermination is that women are motivated connected the contented of termination and this predetermination is going to beryllium fought and won connected abortion,” Mackler said.
The contented of termination entree seems to beryllium resonating for young women successful particular. According to a KFF survey released earlier this month, astir 4 successful 10 women nether 30 said termination is the astir important contented to their vote.
Republicans, connected the different hand, accidental termination is not the lone origin impacting the mode women volition ballot successful November.
“I don’t deliberation they privation to beryllium defined arsenic an termination voter,” said Kristin Davison, a nationalist GOP strategist. “Obviously they attraction astir the issue, but it’s not their main operator due to the fact that they astir apt person bills to wage and transgression is going up successful their Atlanta suburb and they aren’t definite Harris is up to the occupation to hole it.”
Republicans besides constituent to the suburban pistillate plaything voters, predicting they could ballot against Harris connected the economy.
“The No. 1 contented for suburban women is the economy,” said Lauren Zelt, a nationalist Republican strategist. “The Harris run is moving hard to marque this astir reproductive issues and understandably so. But astatine the extremity of the time women are the superior fiscal determination makers for their families and they’re going to beryllium voting with their pouch books.”
However, galore Democrats accidental the 2 issues are fundamentally linked.
“I don’t spot termination and system arsenic abstracted issues,” said Rachel O’Leary Carmona, the enforcement manager of the Women’s March. “When we’re talking astir the economy, I don’t deliberation with the magnitude of women heads of household, women superior earners, women who are successful the workforce that we tin extricate the contented of reproductive state from concerns astir the economy.”
Others person pointed to mediocre messaging toward women connected the portion of Republicans, pointing to overly masculine messaging from figures similar Elon Musk.
“This bromance and masculinity stuff, it borders connected edgy to the constituent that it’s going to marque women uncomfortable,” erstwhile 2024 Republican statesmanlike campaigner Nikki Haley told Fox News’ Bret Baier connected Tuesday.
“You person got affiliated PACs doing commercials astir calling Kamala the 'c' connection oregon speakers astatine Madison Square Garden, you know, referring to her and her ‘pimps,’” she continued, referring to a video posted connected X by Musk's ace PAC calling Harris the "c-word" earlier calling her a "communist." The video was deleted by the radical connected Monday.
“That is not the mode to triumph women. That is not the mode to triumph radical who are acrophobic astir Trump’s style,” Haley said.
Early voting information shows heightened enthusiasm among women. According to a Politico investigation of the aboriginal ballot data, women relationship for 55 percent of the aboriginal ballot compared to men, who marque up 45 percent successful the battleground states.
Democrats accidental they are optimistic astir those numbers based connected however women person breached successful polling truthful far.
A CBS News canvass released earlier this week showed 55 percent of women supporting Harris, portion 43 percent said the aforesaid astir Trump. On the flip side, 45 percent of men said they were supporting Harris and 54 percent said the aforesaid astir the erstwhile president.
“Every authorities volition beryllium different,” Davison said. “I bash deliberation a pistillate successful Buckhead, extracurricular of Atlanta oregon Marietta, is going to person a antithetic attack than idiosyncratic who is successful Media, Pa., which is successful Delaware County extracurricular of Philadelphia.”
