During MSNBC’s election coverage, host Joy Reid criticized white women voters, claiming they failed to back Vice President Kamala Harris in the voting booth, in contrast to black voters. 

As MSNBC projected that former president Donald Trump would secure North Carolina, Reid openly expressed her views on the demographic breakdown of the vote, saying, “We have to be blunt about why.”

“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris,” Reid claimed. “White women voters did not.”

Reid continued, saying, “It’s a state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a very heavy push to get women to focus on not… putting back into the White House the person who was responsible for taking those rights away and restoring them. But that message obviously was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman.”

Reid argued this election was the “second opportunity” for women to “change the way that they interact with the patriarchy,” referring to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss to Trump.

“But if people aren’t receptive to it and if people vote more, you know, party line or more on race than on gender, and on protecting their gender, there’s really not much more that you can do but tell people what the risks are and leave it to them to do the right thing,” she continued.

Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election early Wednesday morning, with wins in swing states such as Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Votes in additional swing states are still being counted, with Trump’s overall electoral college victory likely to increase. According to an NBC News exit poll, Trump outperformed Harris among white women by a margin of five points.