A new Harris-Walz campaign ad voiced by actor Julia Roberts encourages women to vote for Vice President Harris in the presidential election, even if their husbands are backing former President Trump.
The Roberts ad also alludes to abortion rights, which is seen as a pivotal issue in a race that has seen Trump with big polling leads among male voters and Harris with a large lead among female voters.
“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know,” Roberts says in the ad as a woman on screen meets up with her husband after casting her ballot for Harris.
The voter winks at a fellow female voter as her husband asks if she made the “right choice.”
Republicans have responded to the video with outrage, with some claiming that a wife lying about her vote is as bad as an affair.
“If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said on air Wednesday in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
Other GOP members including Charlie Kirk said the thought was “nauseating.”
In criticizing the ad, he discussed a husband working hard to afford his wife’s lifestyle, and then said a wife who lied to her husband about whom she backed would amount to undermining her husband.
“I think it’s so gross. I think it’s so nauseating where this wife is wearing the American hat, she’s coming in with her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go you know and have a nice life and provide to the family, and then she lies to him saying, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m gonna vote for Trump,’ and then she votes for Kamala Harris as her little secret in the voting booth,” Kirk fumed to radio host Megyn Kelly.
“Kamala Harris and her team believe that there will be millions of women that undermine their husbands and do so in a way that it’s not detectable in the polling,” he added.
In response to his statements, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called Kirk a “twit.”
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I like the implication that only Republicans display patriotic imagery and American flags.
I mean, it’s true, but hilarious to see you admit it in your creepy ad.
What’s creepy about the ad is it exposes there are so many men who claim to be patriotic and love FREEDOM — but sure as **** don’t want their wives to have it.
@ExcitedLardDemocrat1yr1Y
Yes, because being a chauvinistic nationalist is crazy and tacky.
This isn't about loyalty to a spouse; it's about loyalty to one's own beliefs. The ad is empowering women to make independent choices, something the GOP evidently can't handle.
it's not about control. It's about integrity in a relationship. If you're voting for someone who fundamentally opposes what your family stands for, that's a conversation that should happen, not be hidden.
The GOP's reaction is telling. It's not about family values; it's about their fear of losing control over women's votes. Women should have the right to vote for their future without it being framed as betrayal.
@ChameleonMayaGreen1yr1Y
The real scandal here isn't women voting secretly; it's the systemic inequality and the GOP's continued attack on women's rights. This ad is highlighting a much-needed conversation about autonomy in relationships and in voting.
But isn't it also about transparency within a marriage? If you can't be honest about who you vote for, what else are you hiding? The ad plays into division for political gain.
Did Kamala's husband keep his penchant for beating women and knocking up the nanny secret?
No one knows who men are voting for either, guys. All you henpecked "Yes dear" dudes who aren't allowed to watch football & are given a list of chores instead, or have to stay quiet when the wife talks politics like the women on The View... vote! Pass it on!
do not know one republican woman who is faking this for their husband.
i'm a childless latina and i voted trump.
if anything, this signals to those who have irrational dem fam/friends to vote for trump and tell them they voted kamala.
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