The polls have consistently shown there is a stark gender gap in the 2024 election. Donald Trump is leading among men by double-digit margins, while Harris is enjoying the same advantage with women.
While Democrats have been focusing attention on reaching out to undecided male voters (see: Barack and Michelle Obama’s messages on the campaign trail or Tim Walz challenging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to a game of Madden on Twitch), the Harris campaign also needs to ensure women turn out for them.
Perhaps that is why a new ad from the left is encouraging wives to pull a fast one on their husbands and vote Harris-Walz. On Wednesday’s show, Megyn was joined by Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk to discuss the bizarre messaging and whether it will move the needle.
The Ad
The progressive evangelical group Vote Common Good released a pro-Harris earlier this week narrated by Julia Roberts that suggests the wives of Trump voters should secretly cast their ballots for the Harris-Walz ticket. Watch:
In the 30-second spot, two women are seen making eye contact as they hesitate in the voting booth. “In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know,” Roberts says as one woman fills in the bubble on her ballot for the vice president.
She then reunites with her husband, who asks, “Did you make the right choice?” She replies, “Sure did, honey,” while exchanging a knowing glance with the other woman. “Remember, what happens in the booth, stays in the booth,” Roberts’ narration concludes. “Vote Harris-Walz.”
The Message
While Kirk believes the election will be won by a slim margin, he said the “stars really do need to align” for Harris given the current state of the polls. “Number one, there needs to be a sizable late breaking of independents in her direction,” he said. “Number two, she needs there to be a quiet pro-abortion vote that nobody is detecting in the polling.”
This ad, which he called “repulsive” and “nauseating,” speaks to that. “Kamala Harris and her team believe that there will be millions of women that undermine their husbands and do so in a way that is not detectable in the polling,” he explained. “That is something they are counting on. And if that’s correct, that speaks to a much deeper moral decay of the country.”
As Megyn noted, the male Trump supporter in the ad is made to look like a “complete doofus,” but she said the entire narrative sends a larger message about how the left views relationships.
“Should we really be surprised,” she asked. “Kamala Harris is married to a man who has been ‘credibly accused‘ – to use the left’s favored term – as a woman beater… and she won’t comment on it… Then, by Doug Emhoff’s own account, when Kamala Harris was elevated to the position of nominee the day Joe Biden dropped out, she couldn’t find him because he was in a spin class. And when she finally got him on the phone, her first response was, ‘Where the eff were you?'”
Megyn said she and her husband would never speak to each other in that way. “It doesn’t surprise me that she and her team would come up with something that talks about dishonesty and division in a marriage where someone betrays the other and that is totally normal,” she explained. “They don’t have the kind of marriage where they can just be honest about their political differences. The wife must lie to her husband, the father of her children in order to support me, Kamala Harris.”
Kirk agreed. “They are promoting… a form of marital dishonesty… Kamala Harris’ path to the White House is martial subversion,” he said. “Kamala Harris wants to get power so badly she wants to turn wives against husbands and does a television advertisement about it. They are bragging about this.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Kirk by tuning in to episode 930 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.