MSNBC’s Joy Reid Says ‘White Women Voters Did Not’ Come Through for Kamala Harris: This Was Their ‘Second Opportunity’ to Change How ‘They Interact With the Patriarchy’
Joy Reid said during MSNBC’s election coverage early Wednesday morning that “white women voters did not” show up for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
When swing state North Carolina was projected to go to Donald Trump, Reid said “we have to be blunt about why.”
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“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris,” Reid said (via Mediate). “White women voters did not.”
She continued, “It’s a state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a very heavy push to get women to focus on not … putting back into the White House the person who was responsible for taking those rights away. And restoring them. But that message obviously was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman.”
Referring to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss against Trump, Reid said that “this will be the second opportunity that white women in this country have to change the way that they interact with the patriarchy.”
“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, there’s really not much more that you can do but tell people what the risks are and leave it to them to do the right thing,” she concluded.
Trump went on to claim victory, passing the required 270 electoral votes to win after the race in swing state Wisconsin was called in his favor. As Trump started to become the clear winner, several news anchors got emotional on air, including CNN’s Van Jones.
“I’m thinking about the people who are not a part of anybody’s elite who are hurting tonight,” Jones said. “There are African American women who know a little bit about being talked down to, and know a little bit about having their economic dreams crushed, who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple of months. And tonight, they’re trading in a lot of hope for a lot of hurt. They were hoping that maybe this time — this time — one of their own could be seen as worthy.”
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