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   On 10/11/2024 8:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > Vice President Kamala Harris has a major problem with male voters: they   
   > don’t like her. The Democrats’ de facto 2024 candidate, propelled to   
   > the top of the ticket by the shockwave of President Joe Biden’s   
   > unceremonious ouster from the race, can’t convince men that she’s right   
   > for the job.   
   >   
   > As the obviously troubling internal poll numbers trickled in, the   
   > campaign has tried a number of strategies to build back support — among   
   > them, deploying her honesty-challenged running mate Governor Tim Walz   
   > (D-MN), and embattled second gentleman Doug Emhoff — but thus far,   
   > nothing has appeared to stick.   
   >   
   > The answer, apparently, was to bring in former President Barack Obama,   
   > who proceeded to scold men — particularly black men — for not falling   
   > in line and blindly following the vice president into four more years   
   > of bad fiscal policy, unlimited abortions, and open borders, all topped   
   > off with word salads blaming them on someone else.   
   >   
   > “And you are thinking about sitting out?” Obama asked. “Part of it   
   > makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me   
   > think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as   
   > president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other   
   > reasons for that.”   
   >   
   > But CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings wasn’t sure the Obama   
   > strategy would be any more effective than anything the campaign had   
   > previously tried.   
   >   
   > WATCH:   
   >   
   > 	Dems struggling with men of all races and Obama goes out and   
   > 	insults them? Discussed on @cnn. pic.twitter.com/jqEc5oE6dV   
   >   
   > 	— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 11, 2024   
   >   
   > “This is the political party that thinks gender is just a state of   
   > mind, and now all of a sudden they’re like, ‘Oh, my God, we’re having   
   > trouble with moderate biological males,'” Jennings began. “I mean, who   
   > is surprised about this?”   
   >   
   > “Democratic Party elites like Obama, and like others have been   
   > viciously attacking Donald Trump since 2016 and everything they said   
   > about him is what they have always said about him,” Jennings continued.   
   > “And I don’t think it’s particularly effective right now.”   
   >   
   > “I think their problem isn’t attacking Trump, their problem is finding   
   > reasons to give people to support Kamala Harris,” Jennings then pivoted   
   > to address Obama directly, adding, “This stop he made, and this plea   
   > he’s making to African American men, I mean, he said today – he   
   > insulted them! He first of all admits that they’re not enthusiastic   
   > about her. He said, ‘You just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman   
   > as president and you’re coming up with other alternatives and reasons   
   > for that.'”   
   >   
   > Jennings concluded by saying that it was all a part of the Democrats’   
   > usual playbook to insult anyone who didn’t respond positively to   
   > persuasion.   
   >   
   > “Obama, specifically, when he was having trouble with rural voters in   
   > Pennsylvania, go back all the way into his campaigns, he insulted them   
   > about their culture and values,” he said. “I don’t think it’s helpful   
   > to insult a group of people who are already not enthusiastic about your   
   > campaign, but I think that’s what he did today … The story tonight is   
   > they’re struggling with men, Obama’s insulting men, and they’re out   
   > saying, ‘Let’s fix it by sending Tim Walz out and hiring Mitt Romney,   
   > it’s crazy to me!”   
   >   
   If America actually is backwards enough that the population doesn't want   
   a woman leader, maybe Trump is right to take democracy away from us.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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