Last week, with early voting in full swing and Election Day fast approaching, the Harris-Walz campaign released a 30-second ad voiced by Julia Roberts encouraging women to vote differently from their Trump-supporting husbands. “In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose,” Roberts narrated, referring to the conservative attack on reproductive rights, “You can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know.” In the ad, two women — one of whom is wearing a bejeweled American-flag baseball cap — tentatively approach voting booths and make knowing eye contact before voting Harris/Walz, then assuring their creepy-looking husbands that they “made the right choice.”
As you can probably guess, conservatives are freaking out about the insinuation that married women are exercising their right to vote right under their husbands’ noses. On Fox News, Jesse Watters likened the idea of his wife voting for Harris to “having an affair.” “That violates the sanctity of our marriage,” he fumed. “What else is she keeping from me? What else has she been lying about? That would be D-Day.”
jesse: if i found out my wife secretly voted for harris, "that's the same thing as having an affair... that violates the sanctity of our marriage... that would be D Day" pic.twitter.com/nbZF3U4X1R
— helena hind (@cynicalzoomer) October 30, 2024
Meanwhile, talk-show host Charlie Kirk, who has been busy panicking about the fact that women in four swing states seem to be outpacing men in early voting, took a break from urging men to get to the polls to rage about Harris’s ad on Megyn Kelly’s podcast. “She’s coming in with her sweet husband, who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and have a nice life and provide to the family” is how he summarized the ad, “then she lies to him.” Kirk called the ad “nauseating,” “repulsive,” and “the embodiment of the downfall of the American family.” In return, anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney called him a twit:
Listen to this twit make Donald Trump’s closing argument. Women, you know what to do. #VoteKamala
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) October 31, 2024
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On Saturday, Trump told Fox & Friends he was “so disappointed” with Roberts for voicing the ad. “She’s going to look back at that and cringe,” he said, adding, “It doesn’t say much for her relationship, but I’m sure she has a great relationship.”
The organization behind the ad, a Christian-backed group that steers Evangelical and Catholic voters away from Republican candidates, also released an ad targeting male voters that was narrated by George Clooney and showed a father picking Harris/Walz for the sake of his daughter without telling his MAGA bro friends. Somehow, that one doesn’t seem to have caused quite so much outrage. I wonder why?
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