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Kamala Harris embraces women’s issues with support from Beyoncé

Harry October 27, 2024

HOUSTON – “Do we trust women?” Vice President Kamala Harris asked an enthusiastic crowd of 30,000 at Shell Energy Stadium on Friday.

With just 11 days until the Nov. 5 election, Harris has focused on the cornerstone of her campaign: reproductive freedom. This is the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. A message that he was supported as vice president after he overturned the Wade case. And now, locked in a razor-thin race against Republican Donald Trump, it was a message he was leaning into.

With Texas in the background, Harris urged voters to go to the polls to vote for her and other Democrats to help restore abortion protections.

“You are ground zero in the fight for reproductive freedom,” Harris told the crowd after global superstar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter introduced herself to the crowd. “We have to be vocal, we have to organize, we have to take action, we have to energize people.”

Beyoncé, a mother of three, announced her support for Harris because she believes the vice president will bring progress to the country and give Americans the freedom to make choices over their own bodies.

“I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother,” Beyoncé said. “A mother who cares deeply about the world in which my children and all our children live. A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies and are not divided.”

But Harris’s message comes at a time when the divide between men and women has widened — from how they view the state of the country to the candidate they vote for. According to the latest data, the majority of women (53%) support Harris and 36% support Trump. USA TODAY/Suffolk University national poll. Those numbers are nearly identical to the number of men who support Trump over Harris: 53% to 37%.

According to the survey, abortion and women’s rights do not rank highly among men; Only 2% said it was the most important issue. 17% of women said this was the most important policy. The economy and inflation were the most common problems among both genders, although the percentage was higher for men.

President Joe Biden told reporters on Saturday that the men who supported her candidacy and did not support Harris “made a mistake in my humble opinion.”

Still in the sweltering, humid Texas heat hours before Harris took the stage, Gilbert Landry joined his wife, Karen, to witness Harris’ historic nomination. The couple, along with their family and friends, waited for more than three hours to enter the stadium.

“This is the first time in my life that I have witnessed something so magnificent,” said Gilbert Landry.

Landry, 72, who is a member of the military and has worked for the federal government for decades, recognizes that Harris and the Democrats have problems with men. He said Trump appeals to men, especially young black men, because he delivers a message of opportunity.

“There’s a lot of pressure on men. Period,” he said. “Especially men in this country who don’t have the opportunity to stand up and do what they need to do for their own survival.”

But he believes men need to “do their own thing” and learn more about the government so they can make an informed decision about who to vote for.

Landry and his wife, Karen, also have two daughters and are concerned about their rights.

Karen, Roe v. Wade said of the overturning of his case: “I don’t think the policy that Trump put in place and signed saying you don’t have the right to say something like that about your bodies.” “I don’t agree with that.”

In another line that snaked around the stadium, Houston resident Joel Avendano was waiting to enter the stadium with his partner. Avendano, 40, said he believes Harris can unite the country.

“He’s here to unite us,” he said. This is the main reason why men are not afraid to vote for her. She also believes that women’s reproductive rights should be important to men as well.

“Even women’s problems are men’s problems,” he said.

Rueben Butler, 65, of Houston, stopped at the arena to see Harris, for whom he had voted early days earlier.

Butler, who wore a striped green and pink shirt to represent the sorority group (AKA) that Harris belongs to, is unconcerned about men drifting away from the Democratic Party. What is important for him is that they are informed about who they are voting for and the policies the candidates advocate.

“Everyone has their own opinion and their own preference,” he said. “But don’t do that because you haven’t done any research. “Don’t remain ignorant about this.”

While Harris told women not only in the stadium but also to those watching online that it was time to elect the candidate who would protect women’s health, she called on their husbands, fathers and brothers to do the same.

“I see these guys here and I thank you,” Harris said during the rally. “Men in America don’t want this.”