Harris bets on big turnout among women to push her over finish line
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. PHOENIX—Kamala Harris is making a bet in the final days of a deadlocked election campaign that turning out women voters is her best path to the presidency. In a race that has been defined by gender politics, getting women to the polls is a crucial task for Harris.
The Democratic vice president, who remains neck-and-neck with Republican former President Donald Trump, has made abortion rights and the importance of giving women freedom over their bodies a central part of her final message. She has stressed Trump’s role appointing three justices to the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade, and seized on Trump’s recent remark that he would “protect" women.
Helping Harris is Michelle Obama, who is typically a reluctant campaigner. Last week the former first lady delivered a blistering address in Michigan in which she graphically detailed how limits to reproductive healthcare affect women’s bodies, and she made a plea to men to “take our lives seriously." Obama will continue to make her case Saturday in Pennsylvania, following up on a get-out-the-vote rally this week focused on young people. Harris, for her part, will spend Saturday rallying voters in Charlotte and Atlanta.
First lady Jill Biden will also be campaigning in Pennsylvania, and other surrogates such as Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will be working to get out the vote. A Harris adviser said that if she wins, it will be attributable to a large turnout among women—especially younger, college educated and suburban women—and limiting the losses among men.
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