SoS Clinton: "Is the Republican ticket aware that women can vote?"

[walrus314]

35. Risky and Awkward

I'm guessing that Republicans' verbiage is due to an underlying series of risky assumptions, and then manifesting them in the most awkward way

1. They know they're losing the women vote broadly, so if you segment women, you can "divide and conquer"
2. They believe there are rifts within American women where some snipe at/scorn others
3. They believe these segments of the American women will antagonize each other enough to mobilize them
4. They believe those women with children will value their family / "fear" for the family's future / etc. based on their chip on their shoulders against this segment that has antagonized them and that agita will outweigh or at least counterbalance some of the other reluctance to this off the rails ticket
5. They know that this race really boils down to 100K voters in a series of few counties, and they're possibly guessing these are the particular women who feel this way

Risky assumptions (and risky to say they even have a plan to do this v. they're just calcified in being classless and mendacious) overall, but worse is just the terrible characterizations/language/method to try to stir the pot in public speeches like this. Republicans have always been better with whisper campaigns for these types of bogeyman fallacies they produce. Much of this may just be the arrogance of both Trump and Vance, v. Bush/Cheney for example.