If Kamala Harris prevails Tuesday in the presidential election, the most likely scenario of how it would happen is this: Women turn out in huge numbers, to defend abortion rights, and defeat a candidate who they find personally repulsive.
Trump, for his part, keeps seeing and doing things that appear likely to alienate female voters. And he did another one Wednesday night, just six days before the election.
Appearing at a rally in Green Bay, Wisc., and clad for his entire speech in a garbageman vest (in reference to Joe Biden’s comments the day before), Trump went on a strange tangent about wanting to “protect the women,” and that his advisors had told him not to say that.
“They said, ‘Sir, I just think it’s inappropriate for you to say.’ I pay these guys a lot of money; can you believe it?,” Trump said, per The Hill. “I said, ‘Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them. I’m going to protect them from migrants coming in. I’m going to protect them from foreign countries that want to hit us with missiles and lots of other things.’”
Trump: “I’m gonna do it whether the women like it or not.”
This is exactly what a rapist says. pic.twitter.com/tWP8CfHTyt
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) October 31, 2024
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Opponents of the former president had seized on that quickly. James Singer, the Harris campaign’s rapid response coordinator, posted soon after that, “Defining line of the campaign?”
“I’m gonna do it whether the women like it or not!” would be a good sound bite for a Harris ad.
Trump’s advisers were actually giving him good advice: being paternalistic alienates college-educated suburban women. Trump not only ignored them: he just tripled down on it. https://t.co/ntbXBuaIGK
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) October 31, 2024
Within an hour or two, the KamalaHQ X account had put together a video featuring Trump saying the offending phrase repeatedly:
“Whether the women like it or not” pic.twitter.com/lFbx5rbWrd
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 31, 2024
Also at the rally, Trump was joined by former Packers quarterback Brett Favre, a man accused in the past of both sexual misconduct and welfare fraud, returning to the town where he once played.
President Biden didn’t say that, but Brett Favre did steal $1.1 million of welfare money from one of the poorest states in the country & is, in fact, garbage. pic.twitter.com/o3hEFcTshn
— K E V I N ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ (@KevChestnut) October 30, 2024
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