White women who supported Donald Trump by more than 50 percent are called “real enemies of progress,” and Joy Reid blames more

MSNBC’s Joy Reid detailed why white women didn’t support Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential election, particularly within the battleground state of North Carolina.

Exit poll data from NBC shows that 52% of white women nationwide support Republican candidate Donald Trump in comparison with Harris’ 47%. The Washington Post estimated that 57% of white women in North Carolina support Trump, while only 42% support Harris.

As many Harris supporters grapple with the national election results, Reid offered an early morning evaluation of why white female voters in North Carolina could have turned to Trump this election cycle.

“Black voters supported Kamala Harris. “White women didn’t vote.” Reid said Tuesday night during an MSNBC panel covering the election results. “This is a state where women have lost their reproductive rights and where there has been a very strong push for women to focus on not… putting the person responsible for taking away those rights back in the White House. And their restoration. But that message apparently wasn’t enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a different woman.”

Reid prefaced her remarks by saying Harris would wish to exceed President Joe Biden’s 2020 vote total to win the 2024 election and couldn’t afford to underperform. Election night revealed that Biden received many supporters 4 years ago Latino and white women voters didn’t reach Harris.

“This will be a second chance that white women in this country will have to change the way they interact with patriarchy,” Reid said, noting Hillary Clinton’s loss to Trump in 2016.

Reid also suggested that race may have played a task in why white voters didn’t support Harris, a black woman of South Asian descent.

“If people vote more, you know, party line or more on race than on gender and on protecting their gender, there’s really not much more you can do other than tell people what the risks are and leave it up to them to do something about it,” Reid said. .

Viewers shared similar views to Reid. One of them posted under the clip of her segment on X: “They like Trump’s racism.” Another added: “It looked like white women didn’t care about their rights.”

Trump secured the numerous number of popular votes and electoral votes mandatory to return to the White House. After taking states akin to North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, he had 277 electoral votes as of Wednesday morning.