Kamala Harris misjudged Gen Z: 40% voted for Trump
Harris counted on abortion to secure the female vote, but it turns out, this wasn’t what young women wanted
There is doubt that Vice President Kamala Harris touted abotion as her top issue in the 2024 presidental campaign, touting celebrity endorsements and promises to secure “women’s rights” — but it turns out, abortion on demand isn’t what many American women care about.
LifeNews recently reported that a surprising 40% of Gen Z women (those under the age of 30) voted for President-elect Donald Trump, while only around 13% of female voters listed abortion as their top issue.
“There’s an assumption made about Gen Z,” Jonathan Alpert, a psychotherapist and author, told The Daily Mail. “[M]any so-called political experts think that just because someone is in their teens to late 20s and female that means they automatically would vote for Harris.”
“At the end of the day, Gen Z cared about many things, but safety and prosperity seemed to trump other things that the Harris campaign gave way too much power to,” he explained.
Although Harris brought out the likes of Beyonce and Taylor Swift to appeal to younger and female, her predecessors President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both scored higher with women.
“Outlets have brought attention to the fact that Harris’ six- to eight-point lead among women in the 2024 election paled in comparison to Biden’s 25-point lead,” LifeNews notes. “And even in the 2016 election, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton still secured a 19-point lead.”
Democrats often make the mistake that women will support a politician just because they’re pro-abortion, or just because they are themselves a woman, but this is as foolish as it is sexist.
“[W]omen are not a monolithic group,” Cornell professor Sabrina Karim explains. “[T]heir concerns are multifaceted.”
Gee, who would ever imagine women have different priorities than identity politics and abortion?
Harris certainly made a sore mistake in assuming she could appeal to women by promising to protect the “right” to murder one’s unborn child in the womb.
“Kamala Harris centered her entire campaign around abortion,” Family Research Council’s Mary Szoch told The Washington Stand. “She told Americans that without the ‘right’ to kill their child through nine months, no one could achieve the American dream.”
Meanwhile, she notes, “President Trump had a very different message.”
“He challenged Americans to recognize that we live in the greatest country on earth—and that we need to protect and defend the American dream,” she explains.
Women, just like men, care about many issues when it comes to electing a president, including the fundamental right to life that ought to be guaranteed for all Americans. They also care about being able to put food on the table, the safety and security of their children and loved ones, and living in a country that doesn’t hate itself.
The women of America have spoken — simply being a woman is not enough to lead this country or protect the rights of women.