Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign have made a concerted push this election cycle for support from women voters, including those who are the wives or girlfriends of men who support former President Donald Trump, and have strongly encouraged those women to secretly vote for Harris and lie to their significant other about it, if necessary.

Yet, in the view of Fox News host Jesse Watters, and likely some other men, such deception could place a relationship at risk and result in a marriage ending in divorce, Vanity Fair reported.

Of course, while Democrats would assume such a divorce was due to irreconcilable political differences or lose of spousal control on the part of patriarchal Trump-supporting men, the more likely reality is that it would be because of a violation of the sacred trust between husband and wife, as Watters explained, and less because they voted in support of the female Democratic candidate.

Democrats encouraging women to lie about their vote

On a recent episode of "The Five" this week on Fox News, according to The Daily Beast, the panelists were discussing the Harris campaign's push to win over women voters, including those who are in a relationship or marriage with men who back former President Trump.

Of particular note during the segment was an ad produced by a progressive group allied with VP Harris that is narrated by Hollywood actress Julia Roberts and features two women at a polling place who secretly vote for Harris while falsely insinuating they voted otherwise to their obviously Republican husbands.

At one point in the ad, Roberts absurdly intones, "In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know."

In the voting booth, women still have the right to choose. New and important ad from @VoteCommon featuring Julia Roberts reminds women that no one will know who they voted for. Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/XALnryVPNm

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 28, 2024

"It's over, Emma!"

Near the end of the segment, according to Mediaite, co-host Watters reacted to the ad with his brand of sly humor and said of his wife, Emma DiGiovine, "If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair."

The remark caused an uproar among the other panelists but Watters continued: "That violates the sanctity of our marriage. What else is she keeping from me? What else has she been lying about?"

Following more back-and-forth and a query about why his wife would lie to him, he further stated, "Why would she do that and vote Harris? Why would she say she was voting Trump and then voting Harris? And then I caught her and she said 'I lied to you for the last four years.'"

"It's over, Emma," Watters added dramatically. "That would be D-Day."

jesse: if i found out my wife secretly voted for harris, "that's the same thing as having an affair... that violates the sanctity of our marriage... that would be D Day" pic.twitter.com/nbZF3U4X1R

— helena hind (@cynicalzoomer) October 30, 2024

Obvious humor lost on left-leaning media

Anybody who has ever watched Fox News host Watters on "The Five" or his nightly program, or even anybody with basic common sense, could tell that he was joking about divorcing his wife if he caught her secretly voting for VP Harris after telling him she would vote for Trump, though amid the humor he raised a valid point about the dangers of spouses keeping secrets from each other.

Yet, that observation was lost on the liberal writers at Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, and Mediaite, all of whom attacked Watters as emblematic of controlling misogynists and highlighted the fact that Emma, a former producer on his show, is his second wife after his first marriage ended in divorce because of his affair with the woman who would become his second wife.