Women can save Kamala Harris. They might regret it

History shows that US elections are usually a marathon, not a sprint, especially when the race is as closely fought as Trump vs. Harris.

However, the first exit polls show that women’s turnout may be a little higher than usual adds an interesting dimension to an election that features two candidates who have made very different propositions to women, who make up 50.4 percent of America’s population—especially when it comes to trans men competing in women’s sports.

Very early data showing women polling about 53 percent, ahead of men by six points and up one point in the last election, could tip the White House in Harris’ favor. But the assumption that women would automatically benefit from the election of the first female President of the United States as deceptive as it is naive.

With his penchant for porn stars and grabbing women by the pussy, Trump has long had a “women’s problem” that led to majorities of female voters supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 (54 percent to 39 percent) and Biden in 2016. 2020 (55–44 percent).

During that campaign, the former president continued to struggle to win over women voters, even as he stated that be the “father of IVF”” in one interview and supported expanding the child tax credit.

Trump may be far more relaxed about abortion than some of his ardent Christian followers, arguing that states should make their own laws for their people, but many women accuse him of cancellation of Roe v. Wade – a move that may be partly responsible for any increase in female voter turnout in 2024. According to an Edison Research poll, 53 percent of voters say democracy or abortion is the most important issue, compared with 45 percent who say they care most about the economy and immigration, suggesting the Harris campaign has accomplished more than Trump campaign.

However, there is perhaps an irony in the fact that the vice president seems to be more popular among American women, not least because she seems reluctant to define it.

Not only will a future Harris administration avoid offering a promised land for those with XX chromosomes, but it could further embolden gender extremists who want men to participate in women’s sports and children to have easier access to puberty blockers – without their mothers’ knowledge. In her unsuccessful 2020 presidential race, she supported taxpayer funding transgender surgeries for prisoners and illegal immigrants. And in California, where she served as San Francisco’s district attorney and state attorney general, legal protections for gender identity effectively stripped women of their right to protect single-sex spaces.

It goes without saying that this is clearly a woman-unfriendly policy.

Women voting for Harris on a “my body, my choice” basis seem to have lost sight of the fact that her real agenda on issues like transgenderism could end up causing significant damage to her sister fan community.

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