A CNN panel weighed in when a conservative pundit claimed that Kamala Harris is losing support because Democrats are focusing on “guys who want to become women.”
Republican strategist Scott Jennings made the comments Sunday at the State of the Union during a discussion about the Democratic Party’s struggles with male voters ahead of November’s presidential election.
“I think what they’re finally realizing in October is that a lot of men think that Democrats care more about guys who want to become women than about guys who just want to be guys,” Jennings said of the poll numbers from Harris, showing her struggle with black male voters.
‘And no hunting cosplay or embarrassing videos are going to change that. The bed is made.
Jennings’ fellow panelists, including Democratic strategist Doug Thornell, interrupted him by saying “no, no,” as he claimed that voters think Democrats are too focused on transgender issues.
Republican strategist Scott Jennings said Kamala Harris is losing support because Democrats are focusing on ‘guys who want to become women.’
The panel had been discussing a New York Times/Siena College poll that showed 51 percent of male registered voters support Trump, compared to 40 percent who back Harris.
Harris’ presidential campaign has been under pressure to win more votes from black men in particular, and polls reveal that she is lower in the voting bloc than Joe Biden was when he ran in 2020.
While 85 percent of Black men said they would vote for Biden in 2020, 75 percent said they would vote for the current vice president.
The vice president’s so-called ‘opportunity agenda for black men’ aims to reinvigorate African-American men at a time when there are fears that some could sit out the election rather than vote for Harris or her opponent, the Republican former president. Donald Trump.
Harris has revealed plans to legalize recreational marijuana and create “forgivable” business loans for Black entrepreneurs in a bid to win the Black vote.
His new plans include providing forgivable business loans to Black entrepreneurs, creating more apprenticeships and studying sickle cell anemia and other diseases that disproportionately affect African American men.
Harris’ push comes after former President Barack Obama suggested last week that some Black men “don’t feel the idea of having a woman as president.”
Harris’ presidential campaign has been under pressure to win more votes from black men in particular, and polls reveal that she is lower in the voting bloc than Joe Biden was when he ran in 2020.
Harris’ campaign has also been working to increase support among other male voting blocs, including Hispanics, by founding the ‘Men with Harris’ group. The latest policy rollout is notable because it has the stated purpose of motivating black men to vote just weeks before Election Day.
As her campaign has done with the ‘Men’ group, Harris’ team plans to organize gender-specific meetings.
These include ‘Black Men Huddle Up’ events in battleground states with African American male celebrities for things like NFL and NCAA football viewing parties.
The campaign says it also plans new testimonial ads in battleground states featuring local Black male voices.
African Americans strongly supported Joe Biden when he defeated Trump in 2020. Harris’ advisers say they are less worried about losing large percentages of support among black men to the former president than about the fact that some are choosing not to run at all.
Trump has also stepped up efforts to win over black and Hispanic voters of both sexes. He has held roundtables with Black business owners in swing states and will participate in a town hall sponsored by Univision en Español this week.
He has also sought to openly stoke racial divisions, repeatedly suggesting that immigrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are taking jobs from black and Hispanic Americans.
