Last weekend, former first lady Michelle Obama stood next to Vice President Kamala Harris on a stage in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and gaslit the public on matters of safety for women and children. She pleaded with women in the swing state’s audience to overlook the Biden-Harris administration’s record on safety and convince the men in their lives to vote for Harris.
What a joke. The former first lady is trying to capitalize on the gender gap in polling, which shows women are favoring Harris while the majority of men are supporting former President Donald Trump.
Unlike the Obamas and AWFLs, it’s not my style to nag or patronize Americans. But I would like to explain why as a politically independent, suburban mother, I voted early for Trump.
Let’s start with Michelle Obama’s point about who best keeps our women and girls safe. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s quietly released data this month show that on Harris’s watch, violent crime increased 4.5% from 2021 to 2022. This new evidence includes thousands more rapes, murders, robberies, and aggravated assaults. The data were revealed after multiple stump speeches and a presidential debate in which Harris claimed violent crime in the U.S. had decreased.
Much of the increase in violent crime can be attributed to our porous southern border. Many of the crossings occurred when Harris was President Joe Biden’s “border czar.” In Harris County Jail, located in the most populous county in Texas, for example, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have filed detainers for one in 10 inmates, earmarking those illegal immigrants for deportation. Many of America’s jails are filled with violent illegal immigrants. And many more are wandering our streets.
Harris is yet to accept responsibility for her failures on the border. Alexis Nungaray, mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, the 12-year-old girl killed by illegal immigrants in Houston, Texas, rightfully blames the Biden-Harris border policies for the grotesque murder of her daughter.
Liberal local officials across the country know that Biden-Harris border policies are increasing crime, but they try to hide it from us with sanctuary policies. In Fairfax County, Virginia, for example, I filed a Freedom of Information Act request on the number of arrests in the county of illegal immigrants. Because of the area’s sanctuary policy, the police are not permitted to share that information.
Does that keep us safer? It does not. And Trump has vowed to put an end to sanctuary cities and counties.
Does the Biden-Harris administration’s Title IX rewrite conflating sex and gender keep women and girls safer in sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms? Quite the opposite, actually. Ask the girls in Loudoun County Public Schools who were raped in the girls’ bathroom by a male student, or all of the girls and women forced to play sports in leagues with male athletes.
As a mother with three children, I, like many families in America, further am faced with inflation and shrinkflation in the grocery stores. Prices of groceries have increased exponentially higher than wages and salaries under the Biden-Harris administration. I believe the economy will be stronger under Trump.
Conflicts across the world require a strong American president. If you wonder how Harris looks on the world stage, watch her speech and press conference in Warsaw, Poland, in March 2022, during which she made an absolute fool of herself shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. My grandfather fought North Koreans during the Korean War. I do not want my sons to be forced to fight anyone under Harris’s leadership.
Despite all of the failures and mistakes over the last four years, when asked what she would have done differently from Biden, Harris said, “Not a thing that comes to mind.”
My own views on Trump have changed significantly, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that. In 2016, for example, I did not support him. But the stakes in this election are high and his record suggests that he is the better candidate.
Indeed, there’s no doubt Trump would have done a lot differently in the last four years. He has the vision and leadership capabilities to turn our nation around so that our children can enjoy the freedom, relative peace, and prosperity that their parents have enjoyed.
In the view of this mother, Trump is unquestionably the best option for women and their children in this election.
Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is a contributor for the Washington Examiner, a mother in Fairfax County, Virginia, an author, and the Fairfax chapter leader of the Independent Women’s Network.
