Fox News host Jesse Watters said during a recent episode of "The Five" that his wife secretly voting for Democrat nominee Vice President Kamala Harris would be grounds for divorce because it would be equivalent to having an affair.

The subject of wives voting for Harris came up during a segment about a new ad featuring Julia Roberts telling women to secretly vote for Harris, even if their husbands were Trump supporters.

"In the one place in America where women still have the right to choose, you can vote however you want, and no one will ever know," Roberts says as the video depicts a woman voting for Harris and telling her husband "yes" when he asks (condescendingly) if she made the right choice.

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!"

Watters said in reaction to the ad, “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.”

When other panelists pushed back, Watters continued: “That violates the sanctity of our marriage. What else is she keeping from me? What is she lying about?"

“Why would she do that and vote Harris? Why would she say she was voting… If I caught her and she said ‘I lied to you for the last four years?"

Watters ended jokingly, “It’s over, Emma! That would be D-Day!”

"Extremely fragile"

Of course, the media jumped all over this, casting Watters as an "extremely fragile" Trump-supporter.

But the point Watters seemed to be making went beyond the scope of the ad.

Sure, if women want to vote for Harris they can certainly do so, no matter what their husbands think. That's a given in this day and age, and really has been ever since women got the right to vote a little over a hundred years ago.

But if Watters' spouse--in this case Emma DiGiovine--said all along that she was voting for Trump and presented herself as a Trump supporter, but then secretly voted for Harris, it would be a larger betrayal.

Watters would feel like he doesn't even know his wife at that point--that she misrepresented herself to him and lied about who she was.

It's understandable to those who aren't blinded by divisive partisan politics on either side. And let's hope there aren't a lot of women out there who feel like they have to live a lie about who they really are, whether Democrat or Republican.