Vice President Harris is pioneering a new divide-and-conquer strategy to win the White House: She is dividing families, encouraging wives to separate from their husbands at the polls.

Harris enjoys a commanding lead among women voters, but most of her advantage comes from single women.

Married women actually preferred President Trump in 2020: He won them 52 to 47 percent more than the Biden-Harris ticket.

However, what if Democrats could neutralize the effects of marriage and leave all women single on Election Day?

Harris polls worse before Nov. 5 than Senator Clinton or President Biden did during their races against Trump, but if she can break the family ties that lead married women to vote Republican, she can still win.

Politics is quite divisive outside the home, but the Harris campaign and its allies believe their success depends on awakening a sense of competing interests within one’s own family.

A conservative pastor and author living in Washington state, CR Wiley, reports that he recently received a visit from a Democratic pollster who insisted on speaking with Mrs. Wiley, evidently hoping that she, a registered Republican, would be receptive to the Harris’ speech as while her husband was not present.

The idea that Republican women would vote for Harris if it weren’t for the influence of men in their lives has become a major Democratic theme in the final days of the race.

However, the campaign does not want the candidate herself to identify too much with the dirty work of presenting that case.

Instead, Ms. Harris’ surrogates, Michelle Obama and Congresswoman Cheney, have been the ones to argue that wives should think of their interests as divorced from those of their husbands.

“If you are a woman living in a household of men who do not listen to you or value your opinion, remember that your vote is a private matter,” Mrs. Obama said at a rally in Michigan.

Ms. Cheney reinforced Sunday’s message on “Face the Nation”: “We, you know, obviously encourage your vote to be secret.”

Secrecy is not the basis for a healthy marriage.

However, Team Harris fears what happens when married couples openly discuss their voting intentions. They need all women to think as if they are single.

The vice president’s allies are going even further down this path than her campaign dares to go.

A campy new ad from a pro-Harris group called Vote Common Good features a voiceover by actress Julia Roberts describing the voting booth as “the only place in America where women still have the right to choose.”

Never mind the baseless scaremongering that statement implies; What’s really notable is that Ms. Roberts ends her script with a line adapted from an old Las Vegas marketing campaign that slyly promoted infidelity: “Remember, what happens in the booth, stays in the booth.”

Should a married person view voting as a trip to Sin City?

Meanwhile, Ms. magazine is highlighting an underhanded tactic to get Harris’ message into spaces where women hope to be left alone: ​​posting “voting is a secret” sticky notes in women’s bathrooms.

Privacy used to mean that the house (or bathroom) was a place the campaign couldn’t reach.

Harris has changed that: she doesn’t allow women privacy in her politicking.

Mrs. Harris may be a woman, but she wants to be Big Brother, with a message of paranoia and fear that can’t be escaped anywhere.

The implication of his last resort ploy is that even in marriage, men and women are solitary individuals who cannot trust or depend on each other; They can only depend on the party and its omnipresent leader.

Yes, the voting booth is private; women don’t need Ms. Harris to tell them that.

Still, women can use the privacy of the voting booth to tell Harris and her party, in the most public way possible, to stay out of their marriages and family lives.

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