Harris’ new divide-and-conquer strategy: separate men and women at the ballot box

Vice President Harris is pioneering a new divide-and-conquer strategy to win the White House: she is dividing families and encouraging women to divorce their husbands at the ballot box.

Ms. Harris has a large lead among female voters, but most of her advantage comes from single women.

Married women actually preferred President Trump in 2020: He won them 52 percent to 47 percent over the Biden-Harris ticket.

But what if Democrats could neutralize the effects of marriage and make all women single on Election Day?

Ms. Harris polls worse than Senator Clinton or President Biden in their races against Trump before Nov. 5, but if she can break the family ties that drive married women to vote Republican, she could still win.

Politics is already divisive outside the home, but the Harris campaign and its allies believe their success depends on stoking a sense of competing interests within the family itself.

A Washington state pastor and conservative author, C.R. Wiley, reports that he was recently visited by a Democratic convener who insisted on talking to Ms. Wiley — apparently hoping that she, a registered Republican, would be receptive to the Harris chat. as long as her husband was not there.

The idea that Republican women would vote for Ms. Harris if not for the influence of the men in their lives has become a major Democratic issue in the closing days of the race.

However, the campaign doesn’t want the candidate himself to identify too closely with the dirty work of making that case.

Instead, Mrs. Harris has been the surrogates of Michelle Obama and Congressman Cheney who have argued that women should view their interests as separate from those of their husbands.

“If you are a woman living in a household of men who do not listen to you or value your opinion, remember that your vote is a private matter,” Mrs. Obama said at a rally in Michigan.

Ms. Cheney amplified the message on “Face the Nation” Sunday: “We obviously encourage that your vote be a secret ballot.”

Secrecy is not a basis for a healthy marriage.

Still, Team Harris fears what happens when married couples openly discuss their voting intentions. They need all women to think like they are single.

The vice president’s allies are going even further down this path than her campaign dares.

A cheesy new ad from a pro-Harris group called Vote Common Good features a voiceover from actress Julia Roberts describing the voting booth as “the only place in America where women still have the right to choose.”

Never mind the fact-free fear-mongering of that claim — what’s truly remarkable is that Ms. Roberts ends her script with a line lifted from an old Las Vegas marketing campaign that slyly promoted infidelity: stand.”

Should a married person view voting as a trip to Sin City?

Ms magazine, meanwhile, is highlighting an underground tactic to spread Ms Harris’ message into spaces where women expect to be left alone: ​​placing Post-it notes with the theme ‘voting is a secret’ in the stalls of the ladies’ toilets.

Privacy used to mean that the house – or the toilet cubicle – was a place where campaigns could not enter.

Ms Harris has changed that: she does not grant women privacy from her political activities.

Ms. Harris may be a woman herself, but she wants to be Big Brother, with a message of paranoia and fear that you can’t escape anything.

The implication of her final ruse is that even in marriage, men and women are lonely individuals who cannot trust or depend on each other; they can only depend on the party and its ubiquitous leader.

Yes, the voting booth is private; women don’t need Mrs. Harris to tell them that.

Yet women can use the privacy of the voting booth to tell Ms. Harris and her party in the most public way possible to stay out of their marriage and family life.

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