Vice President Kamala Harris has a major problem with male voters: they don’t like her. The Democrats’ de facto 2024 candidate, propelled to the top of the ticket by the shockwave of President Joe Biden’s unceremonious ouster from the race, can’t convince men that she’s right for the job.
As the obviously troubling internal poll numbers trickled in, the campaign has tried a number of strategies to build back support — among them, deploying her honesty-challenged running mate Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), and embattled second gentleman Doug Emhoff — but thus far, nothing has appeared to stick.
The answer, apparently, was to bring in former President Barack Obama, who proceeded to scold men — particularly black men — for not falling in line and blindly following the vice president into four more years of bad fiscal policy, unlimited abortions, and open borders, all topped off with word salads blaming them on someone else.
“And you are thinking about sitting out?” Obama asked. “Part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
But CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings wasn’t sure the Obama strategy would be any more effective than anything the campaign had previously tried.
WATCH:
Dems struggling with men of all races and Obama goes out and insults them? Discussed on @cnn. pic.twitter.com/jqEc5oE6dV
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 11, 2024
“This is the political party that thinks gender is just a state of mind, and now all of a sudden they’re like, ‘Oh, my God, we’re having trouble with moderate biological males,’” Jennings began. “I mean, who is surprised about this?”
“Democratic Party elites like Obama, and like others have been viciously attacking Donald Trump since 2016 and everything they said about him is what they have always said about him,” Jennings continued. “And I don’t think it’s particularly effective right now.”
“I think their problem isn’t attacking Trump, their problem is finding reasons to give people to support Kamala Harris,” Jennings then pivoted to address Obama directly, adding, “This stop he made, and this plea he’s making to African American men, I mean, he said today – he insulted them! He first of all admits that they’re not enthusiastic about her. He said, ‘You just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president and you’re coming up with other alternatives and reasons for that.’”
Jennings concluded by saying that it was all a part of the Democrats’ usual playbook to insult anyone who didn’t respond positively to persuasion.
“Obama, specifically, when he was having trouble with rural voters in Pennsylvania, go back all the way into his campaigns, he insulted them about their culture and values,” he said. “I don’t think it’s helpful to insult a group of people who are already not enthusiastic about your campaign, but I think that’s what he did today … The story tonight is they’re struggling with men, Obama’s insulting men, and they’re out saying, ‘Let’s fix it by sending Tim Walz out and hiring Mitt Romney, it’s crazy to me!”
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Vice President Kamala Harris has a major problem with male voters: they don’t like her. The Democrats’ de facto 2024 candidate, propelled to the top of the ticket by the shockwave of President Joe Biden’s unceremonious ouster from the race, can’t convince men that she’s right for the job.
As the obviously troubling internal poll numbers trickled in, the campaign has tried a number of strategies to build back support — among them, deploying her honesty-challenged running mate Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), and embattled second gentleman Doug Emhoff — but thus far, nothing has appeared to stick.
The answer, apparently, was to bring in former President Barack Obama, who proceeded to scold men — particularly black men — for not falling in line and blindly following the vice president into four more years of bad fiscal policy, unlimited abortions, and open borders, all topped off with word salads blaming them on someone else.
“And you are thinking about sitting out?” Obama asked. “Part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
But CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings wasn’t sure the Obama strategy would be any more effective than anything the campaign had previously tried.
WATCH:
Dems struggling with men of all races and Obama goes out and insults them? Discussed on @cnn. pic.twitter.com/jqEc5oE6dV
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 11, 2024
“This is the political party that thinks gender is just a state of mind, and now all of a sudden they’re like, ‘Oh, my God, we’re having trouble with moderate biological males,’” Jennings began. “I mean, who is surprised about this?”
“Democratic Party elites like Obama, and like others have been viciously attacking Donald Trump since 2016 and everything they said about him is what they have always said about him,” Jennings continued. “And I don’t think it’s particularly effective right now.”
“I think their problem isn’t attacking Trump, their problem is finding reasons to give people to support Kamala Harris,” Jennings then pivoted to address Obama directly, adding, “This stop he made, and this plea he’s making to African American men, I mean, he said today – he insulted them! He first of all admits that they’re not enthusiastic about her. He said, ‘You just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president and you’re coming up with other alternatives and reasons for that.’”
Jennings concluded by saying that it was all a part of the Democrats’ usual playbook to insult anyone who didn’t respond positively to persuasion.
“Obama, specifically, when he was having trouble with rural voters in Pennsylvania, go back all the way into his campaigns, he insulted them about their culture and values,” he said. “I don’t think it’s helpful to insult a group of people who are already not enthusiastic about your campaign, but I think that’s what he did today … The story tonight is they’re struggling with men, Obama’s insulting men, and they’re out saying, ‘Let’s fix it by sending Tim Walz out and hiring Mitt Romney, it’s crazy to me!”
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