“White women voters didn’t come to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris,” Joy Reid said on MSNBC’s election coverage early Wednesday morning.
When the battleground state of North Carolina was predicted to go to Donald Trump, Reid said, “I have to be honest about why.”
“Black voters supported Kamala Harris,” Reid said (via Mediate). “White women voters didn’t.”
She added, “This is a state where women have lost their reproductive rights, and there has been tremendous pressure to keep women focused on keeping the person who took those rights away from them back in the White House. But that message clearly wasn’t enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman.
“This is going to be a second chance for white women in this country to have to change the way they interact with the patriarchy,” Reid said, referring to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss to Trump. said.
“But if people don’t accept that, and more people vote for race and gender protections than for gender, then there’s little you can do other than tell people what the risks are. Do the right thing. Leave it to them,” she concluded.
After the election in the battleground state of Wisconsin was tipped in Trump’s favor, he received the 270 electoral votes needed to win and declared victory. As Trump began to emerge as the clear winner, several news anchors, including CNN’s Van Jones, became emotional on the air.
“I’m thinking about all the people who are hurting tonight who are not part of anyone’s elite,” Jones said. “African American women who know a thing or two about being called names and a thing or two about having their financial dreams shattered have been trying to dream big in the past few months. And tonight, they are trading a lot of hope for a lot of hurt. They were hoping that maybe this time… At this time — one of their own could be considered worthy. ”
