MSNBC host Joy Reid criticized “white women” Tuesday night for missing a “second chance” to address “the patriarchy” by not supporting Vice President Kamala Harris. .

Former President Donald Trump has led Harris in several states as the vice president underperforms with key voting blocs. Reade argued that black voters played a role in denying Trump a second term in the White House, but criticized other groups for lacking support for Harris. (Related: ‘Open fascist’: MSNBC host furious at Ron DeSantis after Florida abortion amendment fails)

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“Ultimately, if they don’t get the numbers and essentially beat the numbers that Joe Biden got in the suburbs, I think they need to be upfront about why. But white women voters didn’t vote. That seems to be what happened in that state,” Reed said. “[If] You can’t flip white women enough, and we’ve talked about this many times on this set, that you have states that do six-week abortions, or 12-week abortions. [ban]I think it’s probably 12 weeks for them. But this is a state where women have lost their reproductive rights, and there is tremendous pressure to keep them focused on not re-electing the person responsible for stripping them of those rights and returning them to the White House. There was. and restore them. ”

“But that message clearly wasn’t enough to rally enough white women to vote for a fellow woman, Vice President Harris. This is a change in the way white women in this country interact with the patriarchy.” “It’s going to be a second chance,” Reed continued. “God bless Shannon Watts for trying to have that conversation. If people don’t buy into it and more people vote for party and race than sex and gender protections, what’s the risk? There’s not much you can do except tell people what’s the right thing to do and leave it to them.”

Harris has made support for abortion a centerpiece of her campaign after making abortion a top Democratic issue in the 2022 midterm elections following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022. turned over After upholding a Mississippi law restricting abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Authority, Roe v. Wade was heard in June 2022.

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