‘Trump’s Racism Appeals to Them’: White Women Who Supported Donald Trump by Over 50 Percent Called the ‘True Enemies of Progress’ as Joy Reid Layers On More Blame

MSNBC’s Joy Reid elaborated on why white women did not come through for Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential election, specifically in the battleground state of North Carolina. oy-Ann Reid attends the Los Angeles Red Carpet Premiere Event for Hulu’s “The 1619 Project” at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on January 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Exit poll data from NBC shows that 52% of white women nationally supported Republican candidate Donald Trump compared to 47% for Harris. The Washington Post estimated that 57% of white women in North Carolina supported Trump while only 42% backed Harris. As many Harris supporters grapple with the national election outcome, Reid delivered an early morning analysis on why white female voters in North Carolina might have turned out for Trump this election cycle. “Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White women voters did not,” Reid said Tuesday night during MSNBC’s panel coverage of the election returns. “It’s a state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a very heavy push to get women to focus on not … putting back into the White House the person who was responsible for taking those rights away. And...