Shannon Watts may no longer be heading up Moms Demand Action, but the gun control advocate is still very much involved in progressive politics. On Thursday, Watts hosted a Zoom meeting called "White Women: Answer the Call" in support of Kamala Harris that raised about $2 million for the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, while lecturing white female voters for supporting Republicans. 

Reason senior editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown sat in on the meeting and was less than impressed by Watts and other speakers. 

“White women, we have 100 days to help save the world” pic.twitter.com/hhqHU9Uznv

— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) July 26, 2024

I guess that was supposed to be inspirational, even though it just made Watts (and the Zoom attendees) sound like self-important Karens who place an awful lot of importance on the color of their skin. 

According to Watts, however, it's only white women who vote Repiublican who are bigots. 

There’s a lot of urging people to talk to neighbors, fam, etc about Harris. But no one has been stressing any Harris policies. It’s all either her identity or her not being Trump/GOP…

How are these conversations supposed to go?

— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) July 26, 2024

Democrats don't want to talk about Harris policies because they're even more extreme than Joe Biden's. If they had their way, the media would spend the next 100 days writing puff pieces about Harris's love of jazz, the support she's received from Democrats, and the historic nature of her campaign. And honestly,I suspect they're largely going to get their wish. 

As my friend and colleague Ed Morrissey writes at HotAir, however, no matter how hard the Democrats and their allies in the media try to cover for Harris, voters are drawing their own conclusions, and many of them aren't happy about Harris gaslighting the American public about Joe Biden's ability to do the job. A new YouGov poll found that 54% of 1170 registered voters believe that there was a coverup of Joe Biden's health, and the vast majority of them say that Harris was a part of the scheme. 

On the overall question of a cover-up of Biden's "health," the only demos that object to the idea are Democrats (20/57), self-assessed liberals (24/56), and black voters (25/48). Every other demo has pluralities or majorities believing a cover-up took place. That includes 60% of independent voters, 50% of voters under 30, 50% of Hispanics, 48% of women, and majorities in every regional breakout in the data. 

Now, among the 54% that believe a cover-up took place, they identify the following as complicit:

• Kamala Harris - 92%, 68% by "a great deal"
• The news media - 88%, 59%
• The Biden family - 96%, 84%
• Congressional Democrats - 92%, 61%
• White House staff - 95%, 77%

It seems that angry voters have cast a wide net to capture the breadth of the conspiracy to cover up Biden's advancing senility. And they are correct to do so, and largely correct to place most of the blame on the Bidens and the White House staff. But as Karine Jean-Pierre insisted on Wednesday, Harris meets or talks with Biden on a daily basis, which means her complicity is almost equally egregious.

YouGov didn't ask about whether gun control groups were also complicit, but given the close ties between the White House and organizations like Everytown, Giffords, and Brady, it's impossible to believe that the leaders of those groups were entirely unaware that Biden's cognitive and physical abilities were in decline when the chose to endorse him last year.  

Of course none of that came up during Watts' White Women for Harris call. Instead, as Brown reported, participants were too busy finding their inner witch and harnessing their collective power. 

There is privilege talk, obviously. And mentions of witches and collective power. And this being like a group therapy session, which is… telling

— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) July 26, 2024

Glennan Doyle’s talk premised on the idea that white women want to speak up for Harris but don’t bc they’re raised to please. It’s more of the weird idea @katrosenfield talked about today, that no one need convincing. As if it’s all just about enough white ladies self actualizing

— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) July 26, 2024

Kamala Harris was an awful candidate in 2020, and she's going to be an awful candidate in 2024 as well, which is one reason why Watts and her fellow Karens are already trotting out the "you're a racist if you don't vote for Harris" argument. 

Harris has seen only a modest bump in polling since she took over as the presumptive nominee, even though that same YouGov poll found about 75% of respondents were happy to see Joe Biden pushed aside. As more voters learn about Harris's actual policy positions I suspect the slight gains she's seen will disappear, though she'll still have the full support of anti-gunners like Watts and organizations like Giffords, which is spending $15 million in the hopes of installing her as the gun-banner-in-chief.