Many wives who are supporting Kamala Harris aren’t bothering to persuade their husbands to vote for the Democratic ticket (Picture: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
‘Listen, I’m with you. I’m on board.
‘I’ve already sent my vote off for Kamala Harris, but I’m not gonna change my husband’s mind. It’s just not gonna happen,’ Kerry in Easton, Pennsylvania, told me.
Then she leaned in and whispered: ‘But, listen, I might be able to get him to stay on the couch. I think I can get him to just avoid the whole thing.’
‘Leave it with me,’ she said with a cheeky laugh, wink and high five.
As I’ve been knocking on doors and talking with voters in swing states, trying to help elect the first female president, I’ve noticed something far more intimate: the decisions being made within divided American households — and particularly by wives.
Many, who are supporting Kamala Harris, aren’t bothering to persuade their husbands to vote for the Democratic ticket.
Instead, they’re convincing them not to vote at all.
Pablo and Kamala Harris (Picture: @PabloOHana/X)
Yes, you read that right.
After my interaction with Kerry, the door closed and I turned around to walk down the pathway. My mind was racing with the moral quandary of being a strong voting rights advocate who had just high-fived someone essentially committing small-scale voter suppression.
‘It’s an anomaly, a one off’, I thought to myself. ‘Move on.’ And I did.
Then, on the next street, another woman told me she’d been subtly dropping into conversations with her husband about all the ‘broken promises’ and ‘chaos’ of the Trump years.
She explained that she was challenging him by asking, ‘Do we really want another four years of that?’, adding ‘I don’t turn it into an argument, I don’t lecture him about supporting Kamala – I just let it sit there and move on.’
I quizzed her on the strategy and the mother of two wearily responded: ‘We’ve been married for 30 years now… I can’t go through 2016 or 2020 again.
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‘It tore our family apart; we couldn’t talk about politics or anything to do with the elections. If it came on the news, we’d switch it off. It’s taken four years to get back to a place of ‘okay, we can watch the news without arguing now.’’
I found my mouth slightly agape as I struggled to apprehend the idea of living with someone you so ferociously disagree with.
She went on: ‘I’m not sure we’d survive another election like that, so I don’t mention Kamala. I love her — just you try to stop me from voting for her, but my husband? I just need him to stay at home… pretend it’s not happening.’
That one day alone, another four women explained their logic to me. Women married to men who have increasingly leaned conservative over the years, if not decades, now find themselves married to Trump supporters who, in one case, still believe …read more
Source:: Metro