A new Harris-Walz campaign ad voiced by actor Julia Roberts encourages women to vote for Vice President Harris in the presidential election, even if their husbands are backing former President Trump. Republicans have responded to the video with outrage, with some claiming that a wife lying about her vote is as bad as an affair.
Sam Stein
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Trump tonight says he is going to have RFK Jr. working on "women's health
Just what every woman wants: a guy who had 37 affairs in one year when he was married to his first wife being in charge of women's reproductive health:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Allegedly Had Affairs With 37 Women in 2001
nymag.com
I get that this was over 20 years ago and he was probably a sex addict, but still. . . .
@#34 ... So women can not vote for who they want? Lol, says who? The Toxic Bro crowd? ...
OpEd: Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands?
www.theguardian.com
... A lot of households are not democracies; they're dictatorships. This may mean voter intimidation and suppression ...
One Pennsylvania man who has been canvassing for several weeks told me: "So many times we ... have knocked on doors and when both husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend have come to the door together, after hearing what we were there for so often the man stayed and the woman walked away to do other things', or the man came out to talk to us. Often the woman would come out by herself and say or whisper: I'm with her and he doesn't know it.'"
Another friend reached a voter by phone, who told her that because her husband wasn't in the car, she could admit she was voting Democratic.
Coercive control is an issue in households of all races and political orientations, but only this configuration -- Maga man, Democratic-leaning woman -- seems to impact the right to vote in such a visible and potentially impactful way.
Fox News host Jesse Watters asserted that his wife "secretly voting for Harris" was like having an affair and it would be "D day," the d presumably standing for divorce. ...
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