First Lady Michelle Obama urges men to vote for Vice President Harris

As polls proceed to show a deep gender divide for Vice President Kamala Harris, former first lady Michelle Obama made an impassioned appeal to men to get up for women by selecting them on the ballot box during a rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on October 1. 26.

According to , it’s marked Mrs. Obama made her first appearance on the campaign trail, and thru her remarks to the audience, she made it clear that she and lots of other women had made a deeply personal contribution to getting Vice President Harris elected.

Obama pleaded with male voters and “the men who love us”: “From the bottom of my heart, I am asking all of you to take our lives seriously.”

“If your wife is shaking and bleeding on the operating table during a routine delivery, her blood pressure is dropping as she loses more and more blood, or if she develops an unforeseen infection and her doctors are not sure they can act, be those who pray that it wasn’t too late,” Mrs. Obama said. “You’ll be the one begging someone, anyone, to do something.”

She continued: “If we don’t make the right choices, your wife, your daughter, your mother and we women will become collateral damage of your anger.”

Obama didn’t stop there, harshly criticizing the media for being complicit in holding the vice chairman to a much higher standard than former president and convicted criminal Donald Trump appears to be held to.

Mrs. Obama blasted the media and voters for “choosing to ignore Donald Trump’s gross incompetence while asking Kamala to dazzle us at every turn.”

She continued: “We expect her to be intelligent and articulate, to have a clear set of rules, to never show too much anger, and to prove time and time again that she belongs. But we expect nothing from Trump, no understanding of politics, no ability to put together a coherent argument, no honesty, no decency, no morality.”

Vice President Harris had only to emphasize what Mrs. Obama had been making eloquently and at times powerfully, telling the group after Obama’s speech ended: “We are seeing women crossing state lines to get the care they need. Do you think Donald Trump is thinking about the consequences for the millions of women who will live in a medical desert?”

The vice chairman continued: “I want the men in the arena to agree with me on this because there is more at stake than just protecting a woman’s decision to have a child,” she said. “Unfortunately, we girls and girls aren’t raised to talk openly about our reproductive health. Instead, we’ve been taught to feel shame and conceal the best way our bodies work.

She also emphasized that unwanted teenage pregnancy affects not only young girls, but in addition young fathers, whose course of life will change drastically.

The urgent need for motion by each Vice President Harris and the previous First Lady is rooted in polling data.

As stated, almost every poll shows that men are lagging behind women in support of Harris’ candidacy.

While a recent poll by USA Today and Suffolk University doesn’t break down by gender or race, a poll of likely 2024 voters conducted by ABC News and Ipsos currently has black men leading the best way with 85% of their support for Harris, while Latino men vote at 63%, with white men lagging far behind at 38%.

According to , the election can also take shape a referendum on personal views on progress.

Men who consider that the concentrate on diversity, equity, and inclusion have left them behind women tend to support Trump, while women who consider that Trump is incompetent and unfit to be president tend to support Vice President Harris.