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MAGA Activists Melt Down Over So Many Women Voting Early

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Thecut.com 
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images

This Halloween, nothing is spooking conservative activists more than early-voting data that shows women are outpacing men and turning out in droves. A Politico analysis of data from four battleground states — Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia — found that, so far, women have accounted for roughly 55 percent of votes cast, while men have hovered at around 45 percent. That ten-point difference could bode well for Vice-President Kamala Harris; even among Republicans, the analysis found more women have cast an early ballot than men.

This didn’t appear to sit well with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who desperately wrote on X that the “early vote has been disproportionately female. If men stay at home, Kamala is president.” He urged men to “GO VOTE NOW” if they want to stop Harris from reaching the Oval Office. He also took particular offense to several pro-Harris ads reminding women that their vote is a private affair and that no one — not even their Trump-supporter husbands — need to know about it. This messaging is particularly important given what we know about how domestic abusers seek to control their partners’ voting. But to Kirk, the ads are “disastrous,” “nauseating,” and “the embodiment of the downfall of the American family.”

Right-wing commentator Mike Cernovich has also been furiously posting about the importance of men turning out to vote. “Women are voting early, outperforming men. The current MAGA cope is, ‘Men vote on election days.’ Not in 2022, they didn’t,” he wrote on X. “Especially not YOUNG MEN who listen to podcasts like Joe Rogan. They don’t vote. GET THEM TO THIS TIME.”

Other MAGA talking heads have remained calm and collected in the face of this information, like the protectors and providers they claim to be. Just kidding! Fox News host Jesse Waters took a similar tack, equating a scenario where his wife secretly voted for Harris to “having an affair” and something “that violates the sanctity of our marriage.” Incidentally, Waters knows a thing or two about affairs: He was married when he began a relationship with his now-wife, a producer almost 15 years his junior who he says he began dating after letting “the air out of” her car’s tires so she’d accept a ride from him.

White nationalist Nick Fuentes, a big Donald Trump fan who has privately dined with the former president at Mar-a-Lago, also proudly proclaimed, “This election proves that women should not have the right to vote.”

These right-wing figures are freaking out because the gap between male and female voters’ leanings is so stark that it can’t be papered over at this point. The most recent New York Times/Siena poll found that Harris has a 16-point lead over Trump with female voters, while male voters support Trump over Harris by 14 points. (This is in part due to Trump’s direct hand in overturning Roe v. Wade.) And though early-voting data doesn’t offer a full picture of where the contest is headed, it has given Democrats cause to hope.

Meanwhile, as the MAGA bros panicked, Donald Trump made a final, menacing pitch to American women on Wednesday: He promised to become their “protector” whether they “like it or not.” As if women needed more reasons not to vote for him.