During a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Kellyanne Conway, former senior advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, was asked what she thought a second Trump term would look like, why Trump won, and why more women didn’t turn out to support Vice President Kamala Harris.
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I found Conway’s explanation of why Harris lost to be the most interesting part of the interview.
The interviewer asked:
“Why wasn’t there this wave of women voters for Kamala Harris that a lot of people thought would emerge and basically save the day for her?”
Conway needed just two words to answer the question: “Kamala Harris.”
Brilliant — and correct. Conway further explained:
The answer is two words: Kamala Harris. She did not run a good campaign. She’s not an informative, particularly informative, or inspirational candidate. That is not an insult. I’m telling you the way that public received it. And if you don’t believe me, go back and look at all the election results there.
I think [it’s] tough to digest and not see that this was a sweeping rebuke of, I think, her as a candidate, but also the campaign she ran, which was seemed to be like a little bit of a mishmash of identity politics.You are not going to tell me anymore who I am, what I believe, and for whom I should vote based on my gender, my age, my religion. I’m going to make my own decisions.
Kellyanne was right, but she was also too kind.
Kamala Harris was and remains a fraud. She was incapable of constructing an intelligible sentence — much less a specific, detailed response when asked about her policies — and what she would have done differently than failed President Joe Biden or anything else. Her silly, scripted answers became memes. How many times did she begin a meaningless answer with “Let me first say, I grew up in a middle-class family…”?
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Moreover, Harris tried to run on trashing Trump rather than why voters should support her candidacy. You can only call someone a fascist, a threat to democracy, and unqualified to be president so many times before people tune out. Finally, and ironically, Harris never came close to explaining why she was qualified to be president — which clearly, she was not.
Conway continued by putting Harris’s loss into perspective.
Joe Biden won by 13 points. President Obama beat Mitt Romney by 11 points among women. Did even better in eight against McCain. So for the female, for the female candidate of color who’s going to make history. Well, they’re peddling abortion as the top issue. To only win by eight points; that is a true devastation to the party.
Why do women not come out? They did come out. We have been the majority of voters in presidential elections since 1964, and we just had the 16th consecutive election where we decide who the president is. But we’re not going to be narrow casted. You’re not going to talk to us from the waist down only and expect us to vote for you. We want to be talk to you from the waist up. Also with our brains, our eyes, our ears, our hearts and my big mouth is.
Correct. Harris and the Democrat Party tried to put female voters into a singular box: the abortion box.
Kellyanne Conway has a two word explanation for why women did not turn out for Kamala Harris: Kamala Harris
Interviewer: “why wasn’t there this wave of women voters for Kamala Harris that a lot of people thought would emerge and basically save the day for her?”
Kellyanne Conway:… pic.twitter.com/TCPvG78Hru— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) December 15, 2024
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Turns out a plurality of women voters were more concerned with putting food on the table than abortions.
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Here’s the entire interview:
