Hiya, everybody! With lower than one month till Election Day, we’re again for one more spherical of BuzzFeed’s 2024 Election Diaries!
This weekly sequence highlights completely different teams of voters nationwide to search out out what political points are most vital to them AND who they plan to assist for president in 2024.
Let’s chat about all issues 2024 Election
Whether or not you agree or not, this is what 17 males needed to say:
All pictures are AI-generated for anonymity.
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“My spouse and I had a really a lot wished being pregnant. Sadly, she miscarried, nevertheless it didn’t move by itself. She wanted an abortion to get it out. LUCKILY, we dwell in a state (California) that also grants ladies the suitable to their our bodies and will get the assistance they want.”
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“A part of my five-year plan is to have the ability to purchase property, and I may use the $25,000 Harris is proposing to offer first-time homebuyers to assist with down funds. I really feel like plenty of individuals of their 30s are in an analogous boat as me, and this may assist quite a lot of my millennial and Gen Z buddies. I might say the assist for Harris from males in my life is roughly 50–50.”
3.
“Our financial system was higher, the border was safer, and we centered on caring for Individuals over worldwide points underneath Trump. Additionally, if Dick Cheney is telling me to assist somebody, which means you need to most likely assist the opposite candidate.”
4.
“I’m voting for Harris for thus many causes. One which doesn’t get talked about sufficient: If you’re an individual of any religion, however particularly Christianity, it ought to be apparent that Donald Trump has chewed up, bastardized, and bought our religion for revenue just about since day one. He repeatedly takes the Lord’s title in useless in a really deep and disturbing method that ought to disqualify him from any considering Christian. It disturbs me that he’s by some means nonetheless thought-about the ‘Christian’ selection. Like, what are we even doing right here?”
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“I am supporting Kamala Harris as a result of I used to be raised by very robust ladies. I used to be taught respect. I used to be taught persistence and beauty. A lot of the males in my adolescent life had been assholes. I’m all for closing the pay hole and absolutely the and utter extermination of poisonous masculinity. I’ve a daughter now.”
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“Funding and arming an overtly public every day genocide is my dealbreaker. To not point out, neoliberal insurance policies solely allow the present local weather disaster, in the end making certain its collapse inside a decade. I am going to vote blue down the poll, however Claudia De la Cruz is getting my POTUS vote.”
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“As a homosexual cis man and an educator, I can’t fathom propping up DJT as a job mannequin. He’s vile, with no regard for ethics, manners, or the worth of one other human being. He’s a fearmonger at finest and a felon at worst. A lot of the males in my life are different LGBTQ+ and really feel the identical method.”
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“Whereas I do not assume Kamala Harris is a perfect candidate, I don’t perceive how individuals can argue that Trump is a more sensible choice. I might like to have the privilege of deciding my vote based mostly on points like fiscal coverage or how I believe a candidate would navigate Congress. As an alternative, this seems like I am debating tax reforms for small companies towards primary freedoms for ladies, LGBTQ+, minorities, and admittedly, any group outdoors of wealthy white males.”
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“I’ve voted blue up and down the ticket since I first grew to become eligible to vote. I can not assist the Democrats in any method after what they’ve carried out to Palestine and now Lebanon. It is unforgivable. I can also’t assist Republicans as a result of they’re insane. My vote goes to Jill Stein.”
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“My important priorities are getting our nation out of the dumpster fireplace Kamala helped put it in, bringing again a very capitalistic financial system, and bringing our nation again to its Christian roots. I’m voting for Trump as a result of he’s method higher than Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris would get us into World Conflict 3 and would destroy America and its financial system.”
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“I really consider that if Donald Trump wins, that is the final presidential election that I am going to ever be capable to vote in. I consider Trump and his allies once they say, out loud, all the horrible issues they are going to do to their opponents if victorious, and I merely can’t abide that consequence.”
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“Bodily autonomy is my high precedence this election. I believe ladies ought to have a proper to decide on what they do with their our bodies. I believe docs, dad and mom, and underage trans youngsters ought to be capable to entry life-saving, gender-affirming care. I believe that ought to prolong to grownup trans individuals, too. Harris and Walz are involved in defending these rights. I dwell within the pink state of Tennessee. The opposite males in my life can see the place I am coming from on most liberal stances, besides on this occasion.”
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“I really feel that we couldn’t have two worse selections for president. I don’t like both selection in any respect; nonetheless, with the best way the media always degrades Trump and covers for Harris by rewriting her previous, I really feel they are going to go ballistic over a Trump victory. I’m 100% voting for Trump!”
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“Venture 2025 is tremendous scary. It strips away not simply ladies’s rights but additionally the rights of staff and most civil rights. Donald Trump is like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush on steroids. Far-right teams have already got an excessive amount of energy, and it’s scary, so I’ve to assist Kamala Harris.”
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“My high problem on this election is social justice. I might be voting for Kamala Harris as a result of I’ve daughters, and as a person, I’ll do what I must assist and shield them.”
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“I’m solely involved with holding Donald Trump out of workplace. Kamala Harris is just not Donald Trump, and her election is not going to have catastrophic penalties. Additionally, it’s BEYOND time for us to have a girl president, and the good males in my life agree with me.”
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“Since SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, there’s a worry amongst my neighborhood that SCOTUS may also overturn homosexual marriage. Additionally, because the Equality Act has not been handed, this example turns into much more lifelike that sooner or later, my rights could be eroded. Regardless of Trump in a roundabout way saying that he opposes same-sex marriage, not directly and by his physique language, he opposes it.”
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