A top Democratic governor claimed at a meeting Wednesday that her party doesn’t “need any of the men” to win the 2028 presidential election.
Democrat New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham made the boast while speaking at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting in Washington, D.C., alongside other state leaders and convention chairs.
The 7-hour-long meeting allowed state leaders to present their case to the committee regarding which states should be granted an “early window” status in the 2028 presidential nominating calendar.
Although a staff member admitted that Democrats are “losing their share of the electorate” in New Mexico, Gov. Grisham followed up by arguing that the party only needed female votes to be “good” in the election.
“If women — Democratic women — just show up and vote, we’re good. We don’t need any of the men,” Grisham said.
A New Mexico official remarked immediately before Grisham on the state’s strength in female Democratic voters. “We have more women and women of color elected in New Mexico than anywhere else in the country. We have the most female legislature,” she said.
New Mexico ranks second behind Nevada in its percentage of female legislators (54 percent), according to the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP).
Gov. Grisham acknowledged Democrats’ difficulty in winning broader votes: “We can’t lose anyone. We should be winning by stunning margins given the shape of this country and the issues that we’re all battling every single day for the people that we love in our communities.”
“Should be no contest,” Grisham added. “But it is.”
“I want the men,” she clarified after singling out Democratic women’s votes. “I am greedy. Losing anyone — and that’s been, I think, part of the Democratic Party’s national branding problem. We focus on a group.”
A majority of women have voted Democrat in presidential elections since 1996, according to CAWP. Voting results from 2024 showed an eight-point lead for Kamala Harris among women. Men favored Trump by 12 points.
Harris lost significant ground among male voters in 2024, earning only 43 percent of the male vote to Trump’s 55 percent. Trump’s large support from male voters was due in part to his rising popularity among younger men. The president won a majority of the votes from men under 50, a switch from 2020 when men in the same group favored Biden by 10 points, according to the Pew Research Center.
The leaked incomplete DNC autopsy report on Harris’ loss in the 2024 election mentioned the left’s struggle with the gender divide, noting, “The national campaign appeared to struggle with male voter engagement.”
The report added that male voters “require direct engagement,” but offered little in the way of actual strategies to appeal to men.
Harris won New Mexico in the 2024 election with just 51.9 percent of the vote.
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