Much has been said about the Harris campaign’s inability to win support among men. Vice President Kamala Harris has bet the farm on the abortion matter. In fact, as former President Donald Trump is set to sit down with podcaster Joe Rogan on Friday, Harris will be in Texas campaigning with Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) opponent, Colin Allred. She is campaigning in a state she cannot win, with a Democratic candidate who will almost certainly lose, handedly, to the Republican senator. All of this is because she is aiming to highlight Texas’s abortion ban in order to appeal to women on the one matter on which she enjoys a polling lead over Trump. 

Old-school Democrats, such as James Carville, have spoken out against the Harris campaign’s decision to appeal almost exclusively to women. However, recent attempts by Democrats to make inroads with male voters have failed so spectacularly that the wise choice may be to bail on the male vote altogether. Democrats are fortunate to have escaped their recent male-centric photo ops in one piece: I mean physically, not electorally.