October 31, 2024 (Happy Halloween!)
“Like It or Not,” Trump Dives Into the Gender Gap
A few weeks ago, during a campaign rally, former President Donald Trump stated emphatically that he was a “protector of women”. At a rally near Green Bay, Wisconsin last night, the convicted felon (for illegally paying a porn star to keep her quiet during his first run for president) doubled down on that, stating, “I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, a lifelong woman, called the remark “offensive to everybody.” She also blasted the adjudicated rapist by saying, “This is just the latest on a long series of reveals by the former president of how he thinks about women and their agency.”
This also occurs in the wake of a news story about a 28-year-old Texas woman who died in 2021 after her abortion care was delayed for over 40 hours as she was having a miscarriage. Doctors told Josseli Barnica that Texas law considered it a “crime” to intervene in her miscarriage because the fetus still had cardiac activity, despite the miscarriage already being in progress. This occurred before the Trump-appointed conservative majority of the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, and reportedly, Texan laws have become even more strict since.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (About Lies)
Nearly a quarter of all voters (23% to be precise) lie to the people around them about who they have or will vote for. The survey, conducted by The Harris Poll for Axios, further broke down the stats by generation and found that almost half of Gen Z voters (ages 18-27) lie the most. It should be noted that most of these voters came of age during the hyper-polarized Trump administration, so perhaps have been conditioned to be more surreptitious about their political leanings.

These lies aren’t tied to one particular political group or another, with 27% of Democrats, 24% of Republicans, and 20% of independents having done so. These findings illustrate how complicated a job it is for pollsters to accurately determine who’s ahead.

Conservatives Fume at Women Choosing for Themselves
The Trump campaign and other conservatives are expressing outrage at a new ad that encourages women to vote for Harris, even if their husbands are backing Trump. The ad, voiced by actor Julia Roberts, states, “In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know.” The woman in the ad glances at a fellow female voter as her husband queries if she made the “right choice.”
Fox News host Jesse Watters perhaps, while ranting about the ad on air, somewhat ironically demonstrated the need for the ad, by stating, “If I found out [my wife] Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair.” And GOP political commentator Charlie Kirk called the ad “nauseating” and “gross”, fuming that it was a way for women to “undermine their husbands”.
Former Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican who has been campaigning for Harris, responded to Kirk on eX-Twitter by writing, “Listen to this twit make Donald Trump’s closing argument. Women, you know what to do. #VoteKamala”
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