How Do You Do, Fellow Voting-Age Males?

The Harris campaign fumbles the play in trying to connect with male voters.

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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Harris and Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer have a beer together as they visit Trak Houz Bar & Grill in Kalamazoo, Mich., October 26, 2024.

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Kamala Harris’s campaign has struggled to appeal to men in this election, and, for some reason, the team seems to want you to know it.

The Harris campaign engineered a bizarre contrivance over the weekend in which the candidate was supposedly “caught” on a live microphone describing the campaign’s troubles with male voters — all while she bellied up to a Kalamazoo bar to wash down a pint alongside Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. “Oh, we have microphones in here listening to everything we say,” Harris said with a laugh, after she somehow managed to lose sight of the photographers and videographers with whom she was clearly surrounded. “We just told all the family secrets,” she chuckled. “Sh**.” You see, real men don’t just drink locally brewed beer. They also swear.

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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