When Republican voters continue to vote for sexual predators and their enablers they become accomplices in creating a culture that tolerates sexual predators. Take Roy Moore who himself admitted he was dating teenagers when he was in his thirties, he received 91% of the vote. Jim Jordan is not just some legislator from Ohio, he’s a party leader even though several college wrestlers have come forward revealing they went to Jordan for help when molested by his colleague and instead of reporting as was his duty, he helped cover up the molestation of at least 177 students. A Republican candidate for local office won his election even after confessing to murdering his wife, admittedly this was a small local election, but come on people, leave the line blank.
In 2017, the reputable Quinnipiac poll found that while 62% of Americans would not vote for a candidate accused of sexual harassment by several women, only 41% of Republicans would not vote for such a candidate. Of course, this was when Roy Moore was running for Senate. We saw they were willing to vote for a man who bragged about sexually assaulting women. Republican women even wore tee shirts that read Trump can grab my (down arrow.) Then there is Herschel Walker who pointed a gun at his wife’s head and who was leading in the polls in Georgia. This was known before the primary. They could have voted for the person who is not a domestic violence abuser. Or Matt Gaetz, who got 58% of the vote in a three-way primary despite his ties to two sex traffickers and the credible accusation that he trafficked an underage girl himself.
Republican voters do not have to vote for a Democratic candidate to stop voting for predators. They can vote for the primary candidate who is not a predator and clean up their party, but they don’t. They could stop following the lead of a serial sexual predator, alleged rapist, self-identified predator. By the transitive power of voting for predators, they enable predators.
- The Week: Poll finds more Republicans would vote for a candidate accused of sexual harassment than would not
- Newsweek: These charts explain how Doug Jones won in Alabama Look at the first chart, votes by party identification.
Baltimore, Maryland · Wednesday, August 24, 2022