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Sarah Huckabee Sanders knocks Harris for not having biological children

Washington Post, Amy B. Wang and Hannah Knowles

Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders finds herself in hot water after making a comment about Vice President Kamala Harris’ not having biological children. Speaking with former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Flint, Michigan, Sanders said, “My kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.” Many quickly came to Harris’ defense, including the biological mother of Harris’ two stepchildren, Kerstin Emhoff, and Trump campaign advisor Bryan Lanza, who was raised by a stepmother. This comes after weeks of criticism towards JD Vance over his previous comments about women without children being “miserable.”

Alsobrooks leads Hogan in Maryland Senate race: Poll

The Hill, Julia Manchester

Maryland’s US Senate race is a close tie between Democrat Angela Alsobrooks and Republican Larry Hogan, but Alsobrooks leads in new poll. Alsobrooks, county executive of Maryland’s Prince George’s County, leads by 7 points with 49 to 42 against the former Maryland governor Hogan. Other polls have both candidates in a dead heat, but Alsobrooks leads with women voters, Black voters, and those under 40.

‘Voting feels like a battle’: In Mississippi, a group of Black women is re-imagining voter turnout

The 19th, Barbara Rodriguez

As part of their coverage on the upcoming presidential election, The 19th spotlights the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, a civic engagement and policy advocacy organization. The Roundtable, composed of all Black women, has traveled the state for months to increase voter turnout among Black women voters; it also aims to create a pipeline to better mobilize Black women in a region that is still impacted by policies that have “historically suppressed Black voters.” Since the group estimates that over 123,000 Black women in the state did not vote in the past three election cycles, their goal is to increase voter participation among these women by 10 percent this November.

A Gender Gap is Coming — Here’s Why

This year’s presidential election could show record numbers of a gender gap among American voters. Two different polls have shown what’s been seemingly building since the President Obama era: Women, especially Gen Z, are moving more to the left than men are, and Vice President Harris has a lead over former president Trump for women voters. As Executive Director of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and GOTB contributing editor Amanda Hunter says about recent Republican rhetoric, “…they’re not going to win with women and they’re really leaning into a lot of almost anti-woman messaging…Women seem really fed up with a lot of that.” A new Gallup analysis shows young women are moving more to the left than young men are and this could represent the future that Republicans have tried to avoid. A number of factors go into this change, but one thing is clear: Republicans are losing the womens’ vote.

Trump campaign courts younger men to make up losses with women voters

Washington Post, Isaac Arnsdorf, Marianne LeVine, Ashley Parker

Former President Donald Trump is taking a different media route this election cycle by visiting popular men’s spaces to campaign. To win over undecided voters, predominantly male, Trump has made appearances on popular podcasts and video platforms like Theo Von, Logan Paul, and Adin Ross. By also going to Ultimate Fighting Championship events and talking with Elon Musk, Trump is going after the younger male vote after Harris has made wide margins with younger women voters. Vice President Harris’ campaign is trying to reach a similar audience with commercials on NFL and MLB channels to get their vote too.

How has Kamala Harris changed since she first ran for president? Just look at the signs

Boston Globe, Emma Platoff

As Kamala Harris moves away from some of the progressive positions that defined her first bid for the White House, The Boston Globe explores how she is also communicating her political reporting via her visual branding. Harris has revamped her campaign color scheme to show the difference between “trying to gain traction in a crowded Democratic primary” and “courting an entire country of Democrats, independents, and disaffected Republicans.” While her 2020 campaign featured splashy red, purple, and yellow signs, her current campaign employs traditional red, white, and blue hues to emphasize patriotism and unity. WPI ED Betsy Fischer Martin said that “the messaging that they’re doing, the look of the campaign – all of that is really targeted” to the “suburban woman in Pennsylvania.”