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Amid rising early voting numbers from women in battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—where they make up 55% of ballots cast—some conservative voices are panicking. Right-wing commentators are sounding the alarm, fearing that even MAGA-supporting husbands’ wives might be casting secret ballots for Kamala Harris.

Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, has put it starkly: “If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It’s that simple.” Jesse Watters of Fox News has even equated a wife secretly voting for Harris to “having an affair.”

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    14 days ago

    Jesse Watters of Fox News has even equated a wife secretly voting for Harris to “having an affair.”

    something that this article didn’t mention is that jesse walters’ current marriage started as an affair: he started dating his current wife while he was married to his previous wife. (source)

    yet another example of every accusation being a confession.

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    My wife just read to me a tweet (or whatever) where a husband was making his wife vote by mail so he could guarantee she voted for Trump.

    I feel like he should be charged for voting twice. If she doesn’t get to pick who to vote for, she’s not voting, he is. Send him to jail for 15 years (or for whatever they sent that woman who cast the provisional ballot because she was told she could and then she wasn’t eligible to vote in the end).

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      That’s actually the one coherent argument I’ve seen against voting by mail. But if someone is that closely dominated, voting is only one of their problems. I don’t think depriving everybody else of voting by mail is the right way to handle it.

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    “Voting for Harris is like having an affair”? That extrapolates into some pretty creepy implications about how they see their and their wife’s relationship with Trump.