Chicago (USA), August 24, 2024 (EFE).– On the journey to convert Kamala Harris In the case of the first female president of the United States, her team opted for a different strategy than that of Hillary Clintonfeaturing a powerful woman in a modern marriage to highlight the contrast with toxic masculinity in Donald Trump.
The intervention of Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoffduring the Democratic National Convention, was one of the most revealing and personal of the event, describing a candidate who is empathetic, yet tough when necessary.
A “warrior” who puts work first but makes time to talk to her children from her previous marriage, Emhoff said of Kamala.
Emhoff recalled his first meeting with Kamala: “I told him he was a very bad driver and to put his seatbelt on. You can’t hide anything from Kamala, so the best thing to do is to acknowledge it and accept it.”
Let’s make @KamalaHarris the next President of the United States: pic.twitter.com/j3yu7FYxbu
— Doug Emhoff (@DouglasEmhoff) August 24, 2024
Cheers, politicians and artists
Throughout the Democratic Conventionheld from Monday 19 to Thursday 22 August, men highlighted a new type of masculinity.
As when the former president Barack Obama He said: “Only I am stupid enough to give a speech after Michelle (Obama)”, who out-cheered her husband in the audience United Center de Chicago.
“It’s up to all of us to be the solution we seek.”
The first Black President (@BarackObama) and First Lady of the U.S. (@MichelleObama) reminded us of the importance of hope and the power we all have to DO SOMETHING. #DNC #Historic #NAACPatDNC pic.twitter.com/A80Rlelq6E
— NAACP (@NAACP) August 21, 2024
Mark Kellysenator from Arizona, paraphrased him for having the bad luck to intervene after his wife, Gabby Giffordsand the singer Pinkwhich brought together a predominantly female roster of artists.
I found this on NewsBreak: Gabby Giffords and husband Sen. Mark Kelly praise Harris at DNC https://t.co/Hj8mTxP6F1
— BlogLife (@MyBloggerLife) August 25, 2024
Oprah Winfrey’s full remarks endorsing Kamala Harris: “Let’s choose common sense over nonsense” pic.twitter.com/hXrIlB95Ym
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 22, 2024
Olivia Pope and President Fitzgerald Grant have endorsed @KamalaHarris for president. pic.twitter.com/LlvVolqapw
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) August 23, 2024
Trump
Without saying it directly, the scriptwriters of this convention – a political communication spectacle produced by professionals who have organized the Super Bowl or the Golden Globes – framed the Republican adversary Donald Trump at the opposite extreme: that of toxic masculinity.
Barack Obama was quite explicit when he mocked Trump’s obsession with the “size” of Kamala Harris’s rallies, while gesturing with his hands to make clear the parallel with phallic insecurity.
The Republican Congressman Adam Kinzingeran anti-Trump conservative, chimed in to define Trump as “a weak man pretending to be strong and a small man pretending to be big.”
A powerful speech from Adam Kinzinger! He is an honorable Republican putting his country over party. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/lWlTMC3HBy
— Annie (@AnnieForTruth) August 23, 2024
Ooooohhhh boy!
Adam Kinzinger kicked the MAGA nest tonight at the DNC convention! They’re so triggered!
Here’s his entire full speech. pic.twitter.com/BGRTAxNI3G
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) August 23, 2024
Washington Post Analysis
In an analysis published in the Washington Post yesterday friday, Dan Balzchief correspondent of the newspaper, assured that Kamala Harris“a black and Native American woman, has pushed the white alpha male to the margins of the national conversation, denying him the spotlight he constantly demands.”
Analysis by Dan Balz: As Democrats emerge from their electrifying convention in Chicago, Donald Trump finds himself on the defense, and it’s not clear he knows what to do. https://t.co/2HCyjf1KHN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 23, 2024
Meanwhile, Trump He responded almost live to the innuendos thrown at him from the Democratic convention in Chicago and criticized Harris’s “weakness and incompetence.”
In addition, since yesterday Friday Trump continues to share on his network Truth Social images of him riding a lion Robert F. Kennedy Jr.who yesterday Friday joined her campaign, with a muscular chest exposed next to a photo of a transgender Democratic politician.
Gender roles and, therefore, masculinity are more complex elements to understand among younger men (18 to 29 years old), who maintain the greatest margin of difference with women in their preferences for Trump, according to polls.
This polarization among young people and the weight that women have, more participatory in the comicioswill be key to deciding the new inhabitant of the White House Thursday, November 5th.
Kamala Harris, who has not focused her message on the possibility of becoming the first female president in US history, will also depend on male voters who no longer believe in anachronistic masculinity.
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