The Patriot Post® · Kamala's Guy Problem
If you haven’t noticed, Kamala Harris has a guy problem. Aside from girlfriend-slapping nannybangers, she can’t seem to attract them. And according to a recent New York Times/Siena poll, she’s down 11 points nationally among men to the fry-flipping, garbage-hauling Donald Trump.
It didn’t help that Harris picked a female running mate in Tim Walz, the unpaid assistant football coach who bows and genuflects and puts tampons in boys’ bathrooms and thinks “AOC can run a mean pick 6.” Nor did it help that her campaign chased away untold millions of self-respecting men by courting the sitzpinkling White Dudes for Harris. And it definitely didn’t help — especially with black men — when her inauthentically black self married outside her race. Nor when, speaking of inauthentic blackness, she commissioned a tone-deaf, r-dropping former condescender-in-chief named Barack Obama to chastise “the bruthas” for not dutifully falling in line. Nor when “The View’s” not-so-Sunny Hostin piled on by saying, “We’ve got to reach those ridiculous, crazy black men that did vote for Trump.”
Of course, it helps that Harris is offsetting this deficit by cleaning up among women — especially single women, many of whom are, ahem, single-issue voters.
Indeed, the media has fixated on Donald’s “woman problem,” but not so much on Kamala’s “man problem.” A recent Quinnipiac poll, for example, showed that in North Carolina, Harris leads among women by 26 points but trails Trump among men by 24 points — essentially a wash. In Wisconsin, Harris leads among women by 18, but Trump leads among men by 21. And in Georgia, Harris has a smallish five-point advantage among women, but Trump has a massive 20-point advantage among men. Nationally, a recent USA Today/Suffolk poll shows the two margins are practically mirror images of each other. As it turns out, men vote too.
As for that seemingly staged event with Harris and Michigan Governor Gretchen “Bigg Retch” Whitmer sitting at a bar in the Wolverine State, drinking beer and discussing the aforementioned male voters and pretending to have been caught on a live mic — no one’s buying that either.
Whatever the reasons for Harris’s weakness with men, our Mark Alexander has long contended that Democrats rely on the emotional incontinence of certain women for their electoral majorities. As he notes, “Female majorities have elected every Democrat president since 1960, and have been a major force in midterm elections,” adding that women have voted for Democrat presidential candidates by an average of more than six points since Ronald Reagan routed the cardigan-clad Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Clearly, then, the Democrats’ inability to enhance the male vote predates their inability to define what a woman is, and it continues despite JD Vance’s relatively obscure but deliciously infuriating dig about “childless cat ladies.”
Paradoxically, it seems, the Democrats’ efforts to woo us mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers only get worse with each effort at outreach, such as was the case with their blackboard-scratching “Man Enough” ad campaign. As the New York Post’s Kirsten Fleming wrote recently:
The ad features various male actors butched-up in flannels, jeans and gym clothes with one even propped up in the back of a pickup truck looking more dainty and demure than blue collar gritty. The actors all took turns bragging about their stereotypical bro bona fides. … It was so cringe inducing, and pandering, that I was curious if the director, a man by the name of Jacob Reed, had actually ever met a dude in the wild, one who didn’t carry an NPR tote.
Methinks the folks who rail about “toxic masculinity” doth protest too much.
Perhaps the Left finally senses that the male vote is a lost cause. How else to explain a new ad narrated by actress Julia Roberts in which wives are encouraged to deceive their husbands by canceling their votes on the sly?
In the voting booth, women still have the right to choose.
— Vote Common Good (@VoteCommon) October 28, 2024
Thank you to Julia Roberts for helping us make the choice clear - November 5th, let’s all choose a new path forward.#progressive #progressivechristianity #voteblue #harris2024 #prowomen #evangelicalsforharris pic.twitter.com/fchO3yj1na
It’s another cringeworthy ad, but at least it’s honest about its dishonesty. In the end, though, we’ll trust that enough good, strong, smart, free-thinking women are out there. And we’ll trust that they understand the enormous stakes of the election that’s just five days away.