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There is a significant divide in how young men and women plan to vote in this November’s presidential election. A recent poll revealed that among women under 30, 67% intend to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, while only 29% support former President Donald Trump. However, among young men, 53% plan to vote for Trump, with just 40% backing Harris.
In the video above, Straight Arrow News contributor Jordan Reid expresses concern about the trend of young men supporting Trump. She also urges women to remember that their vote is private, and encourages them to vote according to their conscience without worrying about the opinions of the men in their lives.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
I worry that, when standing alone in a cubby with no one but their own preconceptions, fears and anxieties for company, too many people will look at the decision between a racist sexual predator with a dictator fetish — and a woman — and find the latter to be just a step too far.
That said, the privacy of the voting booth works both ways. I’m sure you’ve seen the Instagram posts encouraging women to vote and reminding them that their husbands do not need to know who they voted for. It makes me so sad that that’s where we are as a country, so divided that we can’t make polite conversation with each other for an hour, so divided that we can’t even voice our feelings to our partners — but here we are.
So I’d like to take this moment to remind you that your vote, when you cast it — because you’re voting, right? Right? Your vote is private. But if you’re still nervous about someone close to you asking… listen, I’m a mom, which obviously gives me the authority to tell you to go ahead and lie. It’s nobody’s business but your own who you vote for, and if someone wants to hassle you about it, that is their poor judgment and crappy sense of boundaries.
Vote with your heart, with your conscience, and with your morals — not because you’re afraid of what someone else might say, because they’ll never know if you don’t want to tell them.
