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American Women Will Elect Harris

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3 min readOct 28, 2024

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Women. Not Latinos or Blacks or Asians or Mixed Races or Native Americans.
Women will elect Harris President.
Because it’s their time.
It is not the time for American men to say to the world, ‘we rule here!’
It is American women’s turn to assert themselves and say, ‘we rule here, too!’
Just watch. We’re only 8 days away.
It is American women’s turn and the men who respect them, not take them for granted.
Men who can say to themselves, ‘God knows we’ve had enough chances, so now it’s their turn.’
Is this race not about gender? Yes, it is.
Trump calls Harris retarded but she beat him soundly in their debate. And he didn’t want another one because she would’ve trounced him.
How much longer do women have to put up with men deciding who controls their bodies?
American women are tired of it.
And those women married to male Trump supporters will ask themselves, ‘do I not see how crude Trump is? How degrading of women and others, too?’
‘Do I not see Trump’s flagrant flaws and how my husband is willing to look past them?’
‘I know Harris is not perfect,’ women will say, ‘but dammit, she’s all in. She’s in it for all of us, to move us forward, to push us up. She’s competent and ambitious and she wants to do well for all of us — everybody — so I’ll be damned if I won’t support her. So, sorry, honey, I cannot vote for a man who talks about mass deportations because it smells of ethnic cleansing, so his male supporters can…

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