Former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick publicly criticized a campaign advertisement for Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming it “encourages lying” among female voters. In the brief commercial released by Vote Common Good, a woman is shown casting her vote for Harris. After leaving the voting booth, she joins a man who asks her, “Did you make the right choice?” to which she responds, “Sure did, honey.”
The ad is aimed directly at wives and pushes them to not feel ‘pressured’ to vote in line with their husbands in support of former President Donald Trump. “In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want,” actress Julia Roberts says in the voiceover before adding: “Remember, what happens in the booth stays in the booth.”
Discussing the advertisement on “The Ingraham Angle,” FOX News host Laura Ingraham argued that its message is encouraging women to lie to their partners. “Alright, Democrats have a really cool new strategy to win over women. When it comes to time to vote, lie to your husbands and your boyfriends,” she said. “Someone actually got paid to write that script for Julia Roberts. Is it any wonder that male voters can’t stand Kamala with messaging like this? That men are somehow bullying or threatening the women in their lives who vote for Kamala Harris? Now, I don’t get offended by much anymore. I’ve been in Washington for too long, but that even offends me.”
Patrick expressed a similar sentiment, adding that Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, has encouraged female voters to be honest about who they’re deciding to back in the 2024 presidential election. “You know, obviously, that’s about lying,” she chimed in. “On the other side, JD Vance said something beautiful. He said, ‘You shouldn’t be losing close relationships with people based on who you vote for and this election.’ So, I think that, really, if this is the truth about how you feel, and that you can’t tell your significant other about how you voted, it might reflect a little bit more on the depth of your relationship, because this is a core value. Voting is a core value that really builds relationships. And I think it’s really disappointing that they’re encouraging lying.”
Later in the segment, Patrick, who mentioned that she voted for Trump, acknowledged that women may be less inclined to vote for the former U.S. President because of his character. “The women vote is definitely something that’s very important, and I know that women can be very triggered by Donald Trump’s personality to some degree,” she said. “But I also think that the propaganda and the fake news that has come out time and time again about him has painted a bad picture. And I think it really leads to the fact that we as Americans, as human beings, need to think for ourselves, do our own research, and realize that so many of these things are just not true.”
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