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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s our turn to show up. So that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing. Hold this date and time,\u201d read the\u00a0virtual flyer\u00a0for an event calling for white women \u2013 the majority of whom\u00a0tend to vote\u00a0Republican \u2013 to mobilize for Harris shared widely on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
White Women: Answer the Call\u201d, a Zoom call inspired by the call for Black women held\u00a0earlier this week, saw 164,000 white women join, reportedly setting a world record as the largest Zoom meeting in history. Nearly $2m was raised for Harris in less than two hours on Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\u00a0Zoom call that started it all\u00a0was hosted on Sunday by Win With Black Women, a group of Black women leaders and organizers, within hours of Biden\u2019s decision, and saw an astonishing 44,000 participants, raising more than $1.5m for Harris\u2019s budding campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tens of thousands of those who couldn\u2019t access that call because it was at capacity streamed it through other platforms such as Twitch, Clubhouse and YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was just one of several calls hosted by the group since 2020, when it was founded by strategist Jotaka Eaddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Win With Black Men\u00a0call\u00a0also inspired by the call with Black women raised more than $1.3m to support Harris from more than 17,000 donors on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shannon Watts, a prominent gun control activist, organized Thursday\u2019s event, which featured speakers including actor Connie Britton, former US soccer star\u00a0Megan Rapinoe, the US House representative Lizzie Fletcher and the musician\u00a0Pink. The group had raised more than $8.5m by Friday afternoon, Watts tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exit polls found\u00a052%\u00a0of white women eligible to vote in 2016 cast a ballot for Donald Trump, a figure which likely helped tilt the election in Trump\u2019s favor. At the time, he was running against Hillary Clinton, who hoped to be the first female president. In 2020, the majority of white women voted for Trump again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA majority of white women have voted for the Republican candidate since the 2000 presidential election when white women were almost equally split between Democrat Al Gore and Republican victor, George W Bush,\u201d according to the\u00a0Center for American Women and Politics\u00a0at Rutgers University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn contrast, a large majority of Black, Latinx and Asian women have supported the Democratic candidate for the entirety of the time period in which data disaggregated by gender and race has been available.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watts said she hopes history will not repeat itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFellow white women: we can and have to fix this, and that starts with mobilizing like Black women,\u201d Watts wrote on Instagram ahead of the call. She linked to a Substack\u00a0post\u00a0she wrote, which read in part: \u201cWhite women voting for Republicans, even when it appears to be against their best interests, is a complex phenomenon influenced by privilege, systemic racism and sexism, religious affiliations and, of course, the patriarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut we\u2019re not a monolithic group; our voting patterns are typically divided along lines of religion, education and marital status, and that division makes us not only a crucial voting bloc, but an unpredictable one \u2013 even small shifts in our voting behavior can have significant impacts on election outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watts added: \u201cIn other words, if we start doing the work right now, we can create a shift in voting momentum that will help Black women elect Vice-President Harris as president in just 100 days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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