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Will I vote for Trump? Harris is pushing this voter away from Michigan

I'm tired of Kamala Harris' nonsensical sermons about democracy, the media's hatred of Donald Trump, and liberals playing the woman card.

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I like to vote by mail and received my ballot in the mail a few weeks ago. I spent a lot of time staring at it and wasn't thrilled with my choice at the top of the ticket.

That is, until recently.

Vice President Kamala Harris, her surrogate Democrats, and the left-leaning traditional media are turning me – a conservative who is in no way MAGA – into action want to vote for former President Donald Trump.

And I know that I'm not alone.

Harris and her fellow liberals are starting to sound like the Democrats did in 2016, and that's a major turn-off for voters like me.

Many mainstream media outlets (with a few exceptions) have abandoned any pretense of fair coverage of this election and are fully committed to helping Harris defeat Trump.

Examples abound, but CBS News' Norah O'Donnell, one of the moderators of this month's vice presidential debate, just provided a prime example of the pervasive, disgusting bias in the news media. With a straight face, O'Donnell shared the following about the state of the presidential election.

She began with Harris: “The fight for every single undecided vote in the battleground states is becoming increasingly intense. Vice President Kamala Harris is targeting disaffected Republican voters by going after Liz Cheney in the key blue wall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Cheney was an influential Republican congresswoman and today she called Harris a responsible adult.

O'Donnell then added this about Trump: “As for former President Donald Trump, he was back in North Carolina spreading false claims about FEMA and immigrants. That came after he spent the weekend rudely insulting Harris, making lewd locker room conversations about the late golf legend Arnold Palmer and staging a campaign stunt at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.”

It would almost be funny if there wasn't so much at stake.

Opinion: Republicans for Kamala Harris? A real conservative couldn't vote for her.

Harris supporters look a lot like Hillary Clinton, and that's not a good thing

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, constantly trying to single out Trump as a brutalist, said you could put half of his supporters in a “basket of deplorables” because they were just as “sexist” and “sexist.” “racist” like the Republican candidate himself.

(It turns out Clinton's statement wasn't wise.)

Opinion: Why is Trump doing so well in the polls? It's the economy, stupid.

In this sense, Clinton also played the woman card and made a big deal about becoming the first female president of the United States. And she made it clear that all women had a duty to vote for her, regardless of their political views. If they didn't vote for her, then it must be because of the men in their lives.

This rhetoric was offensive to women then and still is today. Not to mention ineffective.

But that hasn't stopped the media and Harris supporters from repeating that sentiment now.

For example, Jess Piper, a progressive activist in Missouri, recently said the following on social media: “White women: your voice is private.” I don't care what sign your husband put up in your yard or what your pastor put up on Sunday preaches, you can choose your conscience. You can vote for your children and grandchildren. Nobody will know.”

Huh?

And the New York Times devoted an entire “News” story this week to the question of how gender is one of the defining aspects of this election, noting that Harris has the “potential to make history as the country's first female president.”

The Times claims that this makes many people (men) uncomfortable: “In quiet conversations, some Harris supporters can't shake the uneasy feeling that men in their lives have difficulty supporting a woman – particularly a black and South Asian woman.” ‒ even if they don’t want to admit it.”

No man in my life has cared at all about Harris' gender or race. However, they do care about their policies – or lack thereof.

Women do that too.

Harris wants this election to be about “democracy.” Did you hear her talk about it?

Harris did such a poor job of defining what her presidency would look like and what she actually believes that she instead focused squarely on Trump and the events of the past.

This week, she and former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney toured several battleground states, touting the slogan “country over party.”

Your focus? The threat they believe Trump poses to our democracy, given what happened after his election loss in 2020 and the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

So you can assume Harris has spent some time thinking about all of this. At an event on Monday in Royal Oak, Michigan, she had this to say on the subject:

“We cannot despair. You know, it's the nature of a democracy that I think there's a duality. On the one hand, it is an incredible strength when our democracy is intact, an incredible strength in what it does to protect the freedoms and rights of its people. Oh, there is great power in that.

“And it’s very fragile. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And this is the moment we find ourselves in. And I say, don't despair, because in a democracy, as long as we can maintain it, our democracy, the people, every individual has the power to make a decision about what that's going to look like… so let's not feel that way have to be powerless.”

I'll spare you the rest, it's typical Harris – a word salad that takes a lot of time to say nothing.

I'm tired of Harris' nonsensical sermons about democracy, the media's hatred of Trump, and liberals playing the woman card.

And maybe I'll do exactly what I hope people don't do: vote for Trump.

Ingrid Jacques is a columnist for USA TODAY. Contact her at [email protected] or on X, formerly Twitter: @Ingrid_Jacques.

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