Last week Americans rejected Vice President Kamala Harris and her pro-abortion campaign.
If you listen to Joy Reid, the explanation is racism.
If you listen to Morning Joe, the explanation is sexism.
But if anyone cared to listen to the American voters, their actions told a different story.
Democrats, led by Kamala Harris, made a deliberate decision to focus their campaign on federally expanding abortion. After the 2022 midterm elections, they were convinced that going all in on abortion was their silver bullet. According to AdImpact, Democrats dropped over half a billion dollars, in TV ads, on abortion to ultimately lose the presidency, the Senate and more than likely the House.
The Harris campaign told us that women would die from lack of abortions unless we voted for her.
So how can it be, given the threat of democracy and death, that most Americans, including more suburban women and a record number of minority voters, didn’t buy Kamala’s existential abortion claim?
It's because Americans hate being lied to.
Lie No. 1: Team Harris and Democrats stated women would die without their abortion plan.
This is a very dangerous lie and one that was peddled throughout this election cycle. A lie that corporate media pushed to support Harris’ campaign narrative. That we would die from miscarriage, ectopic and emergency pregnancies without her abortion plan.
Every single state in this country allows pregnancy care for miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies. Neither of which is treated with abortion, as the actual definition points out, as most Americans already know and even a fact that Planned Parenthood acknowledged until it was politically disadvantageous for them. Telling women that they will die from lack of miscarriage/ectopic care without a federal abortion law as a campaign strategy is one of the lowest things I’ve witnessed in all political history.
Another lie was if a mother’s life was in danger, she couldn’t get an abortion. State laws and abortion data reveal this is a blatant lie. Every pro-life law empowers doctors in each state to use their medical judgement to provide abortion as an option to save the life of the mother. This is happening on the ground across the country. For example, just look at Texas’ abortions post-Dobbs.
Lie No. 2: All women have abortion as their top voting issue.
As they are prone to do, Democrats made this election all about identity politics. They viewed women in America as a monolith instead of understanding our complex feelings and priorities. Reporter Zaid Jilani put it well, “I think a lot of the cable news discussion around women was infantilizing because it kind of treated them as a monolithic group…who cared a lot about abortion in one direction. I live in the suburbs of Atlanta, I know a lot of suburban women that don’t particularly care for abortion, they tend to be pro-life and others who lean more pro-choice, they don’t prioritize it in voting.” He went on to rightfully point out that despite stronger pro-life laws, voters overwhelmingly voted for Gov. DeSantis, Gov. Kemp, Gov. Abbott and more. He’s right, in fact, not one single GOP governor has lost an election since the Dobbs decision.
Campaign Harris promised a historic gender gap this election due to abortion, but that never materialized. Even noted pollster, Ann Selzer, falsely claimed Harris would win Iowa because women support abortions. But they were wrong.
Even if most Americans want some abortion available in the U.S., poll after poll shows that Americans want abortion limits, around 12-15 weeks. Democrats’ stance of ‘safe, legal and rare’ abortion shifted to ‘abortion everywhere, all the time.’ It was in our face and people weren’t receptive, as some pollsters accurately identified. Even Team Harris started to reject their own narrative, which we saw by their sudden shift in ad spending away from abortion and into other issues at the very end.
Lie No. 3: Harris’ abortion policies are all about freedom.
Kamala Harris and the Democrats said that if we voted for them our freedoms as mothers, as daughters would be fully restored. To be candid, I’m nearly seven months pregnant right now in the blue state of Virginia. My daughter has no protected freedoms, no right to life, despite being a fully formed human being, according to the NHS. But even if you’re not concerned about the freedoms of babies in the womb, Kamala’s freedom pitch is still a lie.
Harris, when asked, if she supported any religious exemptions to abortion, said, no. She said regardless of religion, you must partake in the act of abortion, despite it violating a Constitutional right. Furthermore, she proposed a plan to federally force later abortion on demand that would strip every pro-life state of their laws. She wanted to turn a Tennessee or Mississippi into a Washington D.C.. And she had zero qualms about forcing taxpayers in every state to federally fund elective abortion nationwide.
Americans recognized that wasn’t freedom.
At the end of the day, after Kamala’s abortion push, the corporate media’s co-signing and the campaign’s hundreds of millions of dollars - Americans weren’t moved to vote for her.
We didn’t buy the abortion lie. There was no historic gender gap. There was no Roe-vember. And in the first presidential election since Dobbs, it became clear that aborting our nation’s children was not the galvanizing issue Democrats and the media insisted it would be.
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