Kamala Harris underperformed Biden's numbers with women. South Dakota's governor thinks she knows why.

In her quest to go the archetypal pistillate president, Vice President Kamala Harris portrayed herself arsenic a champion of women's rights, putting termination rights astatine the forefront of her campaign. 

But she fell short, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem explains successful an interview, due to the fact that successful doing so, Harris and the Democrats failed to conscionable voters wherever they are. 

"I deliberation what was truthful absorbing during this run is we consistently saw Kamala Harris and the Democrats effort to enactment women successful a box," Noem told Fox News Digital. "They tried to specify women arsenic lone caring astir termination and their wellness care. They didn't truly springiness them owed recognition for being the individuals retired determination that are raising families and caring astir their children's acquisition and paying their bills and pursuing their careers."

Among the much astonishing findings from the 2024 predetermination is that Harris under-performed with women compared to President Biden's enactment 4 years ago.

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Vice President Kamala Harris gestures arsenic she delivers a concession code for the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination connected Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, connected the field of Howard University successful Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

President-elect Trump prevailed Tuesday successful a decisive victory, sweeping each the cardinal battleground states and winning a bulk successful the nationalist fashionable ballot – the archetypal clip a Republican has done truthful successful 20 years. Voter concerns astir the system and migration propelled Trump's triumphant instrumentality to the White House. But helium besides expanded his basal with traditionally Democratic constituencies, including Black, Hispanic and young voters, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis. 

The predetermination showcased galore of the nation's heavy divides, peculiarly successful gender. Men voted for Trump by 10 points, portion women supported Harris by 8 points. The 18-point sex spread was somewhat bigger than successful the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination (17 points).

That widening was owed to Trump improving 5 points among men since 2020. But Harris besides under-performed with women compared to President Biden, who won the pistillate ballot by 12 points. 

Harris became the Democratic frontrunner aft President Biden suspended his bid for re-election successful July amid reports of his declining intelligence acuity successful the aftermath of a mediocre statement show against Trump successful June. Biden rapidly endorsed Harris, who made "reproductive rights" a apical contented connected the run trail, a strategy that would yet not triumph implicit capable plaything authorities voters. Harris was the Democrat nominee for lone astir 4 months.

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Vice President Kamala Harris enactment termination and women's rights astatine the forefront of her unsuccessful 2024 campaign.  (Getty Images)

GOP strategists told Fox News Digital that the Harris campaign's termination strategy was ineffective against Trump, who had argued the contented returned to the states aft the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade successful 2022. 

Noem added that termination is conscionable not the lone precedence for women successful America.  She campaigned for Trump successful Pennsylvania and different plaything states, promoting his policies and taking questions from voters. 

"We've got women moving businesses that privation their communities to beryllium safe. They privation to thrive. And they surely don't privation a president that doesn't support women and the opportunities they person successful beforehand of them," she told Fox News Digital. 

The politician besides criticized Harris' squad for "minimizing women" successful the closing weeks of the election, referencing however Harris surrogate Mark Cuban had said Trump ne'er surrounds himself with "strong, intelligent women." 

SOUTH DAKOTA GOV. KRISTI NOEM SIGNS BILL BANNING SOME GENDER-RELATED MEDICAL, SURGICAL PROCEDURES FOR MINORS

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem greets attendees arsenic she speaks connected Day 1 of the Republican National Convention (RNC) astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, connected July 15, 2024.  (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

"They adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to telephone women anemic and dumb, you know, by their surrogtates. And I deliberation that was violative to galore of america crossed the country," said Noem. 

She besides said the Democrats' far-left positions connected termination and transgender issues person made it easier for Republicans to instrumentality "common sense" positions that astir Americans hold with.

"Kamala Harris and her Democratic Party person go much and much utmost connected sex issues, connected abortion. It's easier for Republicans and our candidates and President Trump to usage communal consciousness to speech to the American radical astir genuinely however utmost the Democrats privation to instrumentality this state and what we tin bash to marque definite that each azygous idiosyncratic successful this country, whether you're a antheral oregon woman, that you get an opportunity," she said. 

The Trump run and associated governmental enactment committees leaned successful to the civilization wars with millions of dollars spent connected ads that attacked Democrats and Harris arsenic excessively wide connected sex issues.

Governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem visits FOX Business Network's "Varney & Co" astatine Fox Business Network Studios connected May 7, 2024, successful New York City.  (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

"Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you," 1 of Trump's strongest onslaught ads concluded. The New York Times reported that Trump's anti-trans ads shifted the contention 2.7 percent points successful Trump's favour aft viewers watched it. 

Noem has besides fought the civilization wars. In South Dakota, she signed authorities that banned puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone treatments and sex-change operations for transgender individuals nether the property of 18. She has spoken repeatedly astir keeping biologic men who place arsenic transgender retired of women's sports and protecting opportunities for women and girls.

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"President Trump is not going to fto mediocre men instrumentality distant opportunities for our outstanding women," Noem said. It was Harris, she argued, who would person women connected an "uncompetitive playing field." 

Asked if she had discussed joining the caller administration, Noem said she had not had immoderate conversations with the president-elect astir a job. 

"He knows I'll assistance him immoderate mode that I can. But I spoke to him today, and he's successful large spirits. He's looking guardant to getting his medication acceptable up. And I deliberation he's already getting telephone calls from satellite leaders and moving with radical connected his modulation squad to marque definite that he's acceptable to deed the crushed running." 

"I emotion being the politician of South Dakota," she added. "So we'll proceed to beryllium a beardown advocator for President Trump. He's my friend, I'm truthful blessed for him. And if helium asks maine to bash something, well, we'll marque a determination astatine that time."