MSNBC host Joy Reid said during the network’s election night that the reason is vice president Kamala Harris was unable to secure a victory in the battleground state of North Carolina was that white female voters “couldn’t get through.”
Reid participated in MSNBC’s coverage of the presidential elections results and after the anchor Rachel Maddow announced the call for the former president Donald Trump in North Carolina, Reid was the first to discuss how that ending came about.
Noting that Harris had to outshine the president Joe Biden’s 2020 numbers but failed to do so, Reid said: “I think we have to be blunt about why.”
“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White female voters do not,” she said. “That’s what appears to have happened in that state.”
Reid said North Carolina is a state where women “lost their reproductive rights” and the Harris campaign focused heavily on getting the message to women about abortion and Trump, but “that message clearly wasn’t enough to get enough white women get to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman.”
“This will be the second chance white women in this country have to change the way they interact with patriarchy,” Reid said, suggesting North Carolina women had messed up.
“If people vote more, you know, on party line or more on race than on gender, and on protecting their gender, you can’t really do much more than tell people what the risks are and leave it up to them to do the right thing.” doing. thing,” she said, seemingly suggesting that white women in North Carolina were not moved to vote for Harris because Harris is not white:
You know, if they don’t hit their numbers and essentially exceed the numbers that Joe Biden had in the suburbs. And I think we need to be blunt about why. Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White female voters do not.
That’s what seems to have happened in that state, is that if you can’t turn over enough white women – and we’ve talked about this several times on this set, you have a state where you have a six-week window for abortion or a twelve-week abortion. I think there may be twelve weeks, but it’s a state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a very heavy push to get women to focus on not being re-elected to power in the White House. person responsible for taking away these rights. And recovering it.
But that message clearly wasn’t enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman. This will be the second chance white women in this country have to change the way they interact with patriarchy. And you know, God bless Shannon Watts who tried to have that conversation.
But if people aren’t receptive to it and if people vote more, you know, party line or more on race than on gender, and on protecting their gender, you can’t really do much more than tell people what the risks are. and leave it to them to do the right thing.
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