Fox News Host Says Wife Voting For Harris Is The Same Thing As Having An Affair

A Fox News host has said on air that if his wife votes for Kamala Harris in the election, it would be on par with her having “an affair.”
Jesse Watters said on Fox’s The Five show that his wife, Emma DiGiovine, “pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as an affair,” when the panel discussed the vice president’s new ad encouraging wives to make their own choice in the voting booth.
The ad, which was posted on X, formerly Twitter, by the account Vote Common Good on October 28, showed two wives going to the voting booth and marking Harris-Walz on their ballot, suggesting that they didn’t need to tell their husbands who they voted for.
In a voice-over, actor Julia Roberts said: “You can vote in any way you want, and no one will ever know. What happens in the booth, stays in the booth. Vote Harris-Walz.”
Newsweek has contacted Watters via social media for comment.
During Wednesday’s The Five show, Watters was asked for his take on the ad as the “relationship expert.”
Watters said: “I don’t accept that title, but I’ll take it and run with it.”
Watters went on to say the scenario of his wife voting for Harris “violates the sanctity of our marriage—what else is she keeping from me, why is she lying about it?”
As the other panelists began to talk over each other, Watters added: “Why would she say she was voting Trump and then vote Harris? And then I caught her and she said, ‘I’ve been lying to you for the last four years.’ It’s over Emma. That would be D Day.”
Watters married DiGiovine, who had been an associate producer for his show Watters’ World, in December 2019.
Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has also spoken out about the voting wives ad, saying on “The Megyn Kelly Show” that Harris “needs people to basically lie to their husbands, which they are promoting by the way. I find that entire advertising campaign so repulsive.”
Speaking to Kelly’s talk show and podcast on Wednesday, the founder of the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA added that he thought the advertising campaign was “the embodiment of the downfall of the American family.”
Kirk added that “Harris and her team believe that there will be millions of women that undermine their husbands and do so in a way that’s not detectable in the polling. That’s something they’re counting on, and if that’s correct, that speaks for a much deeper moral decay of the country.”
Newsweek has contacted Kirk and the Harris campaign via email for comment.
With less than a week until Election Day, more analysis of early voters is starting to be revealed, with more Republicans seeming to be voting early.
Historian Allan Lichtman has also said that there is an “enormous gender gap in every state” and has suggested that the gap in swing state early voting could be a “huge advantage” for Harris.
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