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'Fatal mistake': Republicans said to have alienated 'one of the largest voting blocs'

Donald Trump and the GOP have alienated "one of the largest voting blocs" in the country by standing by Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance's allegedly sexist comments about women, according to former Obama campaign advisor Ameshia Cross.Cross, who recently said she believes that "DEI" is just a "pseudonym" for racial slur, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss the latest attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, who is likely to become the Democratic nominee in the upcoming general election.The host said that "many attacks on Harris are focusing on race and gender and not bearing children, and asked, "Are these attacks backfiring and how do Democrats combat them while refusing to give them oxygen?"ALSO READ: Boebert, MTG and far-fight friends derail Speaker Mike Johnson’s summer plansCross replied, "I don't think you can refuse to give them oxygen in America where over 60% of women under 40 do not have children and many do not plan on it.""The other part is that we have a significant segment who are having fertility issues and you have a Republican party that's also pushing against in vitro," she added. "A party who is saying if you do not have children as a woman, you should not even be able to vote because you have no understanding of or no real value in the future of America."She continued:"That's a problem and that's not only extremely offensive as somebody who does not have children, mind you, I also don't have cats but it's a situation where they've made their bed and they have to lie in it," she said. "And the fact that the Republicans have essentially always had a problem with women, to dig their heels in deeper when women are one of the largest voting blocs in the country, it's a fatal mistake for the Republican party."Watch below or click here.