Conservative women keeping their votes for Harris a secret

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November 4, 20245:00 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
Sarah McCammon

... T says she’d voted Republican her entire adult life — until Trump became the nominee in 2016. She describes Trump as “misogynistic,” and a “buffoon” ...

K says she hasn’t told most of her family, including her husband, that she’s voting for Harris ...

A, who’s 35 and lives in Illinois, ... says she voted for Trump in the last two elections, but after a period of soul-searching, decided to vote for Harris this time. She says she was “teetering” about whether to vote at all, in part out of fear of criticism if anyone close to her found out how she’d voted ...

... even a small number of silent voters in either direction could make a big difference on the outcome Tuesday.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/03/nx-s1-5159978/republicans-for-harris-women-voters-secret-votes-quiet-voters-2024-election-trump

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1. Republicans can save our country -- and the party -- by voting for Harris

by Ryan C. Mahoney, opinion contributor - 11/04/24 10:00 AM ET

... The GOP has faced an identity crisis and undergone a dark transformation ever since Trump descended that escalator in 2015. I witnessed it firsthand. I spent nearly a decade at the Republican National Committee, where I ultimately served as communications director and senior advisor during Trump’s first three years in office. By the time I left the RNC, few people had served longer.

When I left, Trump had already torn down the party and rebuilt it in his own deeply flawed image. It has only gotten worse since then. Trump has reshaped the GOP around his erratic contradictions and inconsistencies — privately unsettling many Republicans, even as he remains the party’s standard-bearer.

This new GOP is held hostage by a man whose actions — like repeatedly calling to prosecute or use the military against his political opponents — are the antithesis of traditional Republican or American values. Loyalty to Trump has become the party’s highest priority, even at the expense of democracy.

Each day brings new examples of dangerous rhetoric and bizarre behavior. He rails against the “fake news media” while blatantly disregarding facts to push whatever narrative serves his ambitions — such as his xenophobic lies about immigrants eating pets ...

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4966945-republicans-can-save-our-country-and-our-party-by-voting-for-harris/