Several women who have either voted or are planning to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris secretly contra to the wishes of their MAGA husbands tell NPR why they’re going ahead with it.
“My husband will say it’s just what the media has fed me,” one identified only as “T” said. “And I’m saying uh-uh. I watched it with my own two eyes. I listened to it.” Another one, identified only as “K,” said the June 2020 upside-down Bible incident was what did it for her. “I was horrified. That was actually when I left the Republican Party,” K, who lives in a red state in the Midwest and stayed anonymous for fear of getting fired. Her husband “assumes I’m voting Republican. I just listen to him talk about his views, and I just nod my head and go uh huh. And I’m thinking, yeah and my nieces have less bodily autonomy and rights at their ages than I had.” That’s cheating, per Jesse Watters.
“As I was filling in that rectangle it was like, ‘Hell yeah, girl. You did something so powerful for yourself, and for a lot of women,” said “A” an Illinois woman who’s keeping her Harris vote a secret from her boyfriend and especially her father, described as “a committed Republican.”