In an attempt to capitalize on the Democratic standard-bearer’s gender, the Harris campaign has placed an outsize emphasis on abortion over the last few months. It is one of the few issues for which Vice President Kamala Harris enjoys a polling advantage over former President Donald Trump, and focusing on abortion access mobilized an army of single, childless women: the party’s true base. 

The problem for Harris is that men are fleeing her party in droves, and the entirely women-focused, infantilizing demeanor of the campaign is doing her no favors. Harris’s insulting, some would say racist, pledge to airdrop marijuana and cash to young black men fell flat, and the attempts by her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), to appeal to men have predictably backfired.