PoliticsThursday 10.31.24

"Very offensive to women": Harris on Trump's remark saying he'll be a protector of women whether they "like it or not."

Kamala Harris on Thursday slammed Donald Trump saying he'll be a protector of women "whether the women like it or not."

"It actually is, I think, very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their right, and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies," Harris said to reporters in Wisconsin.

On Wednesday night in Wisconsin, Trump, who has often said he will be a "protector" of women, added that he would protect them “whether the women like it or not."

"This is just the latest on a series of reveals by the former president of how he thinks about women and their agency," the Democratic presidential candidate said, seizing on Trump's comments and tying them to reproductive rights.

"Whether he has said, as he has, that women should be punished for their choices," Harris added, "whether he has talked about his pride in taking away a fundamental right from women, whether it be how he has actually created a situation in America where now one in three women lives in a Trump abortion ban state and has legal restrictions on the right she rightly should have to make decisions about her own body."

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