Melinda Gates Reveals Who She’s Backing In 2024 Presidential Race

Philanthropist and Bill Gates’s ex-wife, Melinda Gates, has revealed who she’s voting for in the 2024 presidential election.

Gates, in an interview with CBS Mornings, shared she believes Kamala Harris is the right candidate right now.

She continued, “Kamala believed in women’s reproductive freedom from the beginning of her career, and that got rolled back under previous administrations. She knows what society is up against now. She’s for paid family medical leave.”

“She will grow up, if Kamala is the president, saying, ‘I can be at the highest position in the land.’ Look what that says to young women, just like look what it said to young Black men when Barack Obama became president,” added Gates.

“She knows what we need in society” -Melinda Gates Endorses Kamala Harris after claiming to ‘care about women’ but NOT the women that were trafficked on Epstein’s Island. pic.twitter.com/qMjKQuGpCk

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) July 26, 2024

Melinda Gates endorses Kamala Harris because of “reproductive freedom” which is the euphemism Democrats now use for elective abortionpic.twitter.com/c6AqCvhAxg

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) July 26, 2024

Per CBS:

Philanthropist Melinda French Gates said she is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and announced a new YouTube series called “The Moments That Make Us,” which includes interviews with women from various generations, including Megan Rapinoe and “CBS Mornings'” co-host Gayle King.

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French Gates, who said she has never before endorsed a candidate, said the likely Democratic nominee is the “right candidate, right now” in an interview on “CBS Mornings.”

“She has believed in women’s reproductive freedom from the beginning of her career, and that got rolled back under previous administrations. She knows what society is up against now. She’s for paid family medical leave. She’s for caregiving … She has always been outspoken on these topics, and I think she’s a woman of our time.”

On a personal level, French Gates said she thought about the next generation and her 16-month-old granddaughter while endorsing Harris.

“She will grow up, if Kamala is the president, saying, ‘I can be at the highest position in the land.’ Look what that says to young women, just like look what it said to young Black men when Barack Obama became president.”

Melinda French will always be the evil accomplice of Bill Gates who added him in his war against humanity. https://t.co/bKSyhSXILB

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) July 26, 2024

Here’s what The Hill reported:

Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, threw her support behind Vice President Harris’s presidential run, pointing to the need to protect reproductive rights.

“I feel like Kamala, I was happy to endorse. I’ve worked with her before, she knows what we need in society and she’s using her voice against those issues already on the campaign trail, and I knew she would,” French Gates said Wednesday on CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

“I’ve always been an independent voter and I will continue to be,” she continued. “I voted Republican, I voted Democrat. But in this election, women’s rights, our reproductive rights are so fundamental.”

“And there is, there was a candidate who believe in them from the beginning and there was a candidate who didn’t and rolled them back,” the philanthropist added, referring to former President Trump.

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The endorsement comes after she revealed last month she would vote for President Biden, who has since withdrawn from the 2024 race and endorsed Harris as his successor. In backing Biden, Gates discussed Trump’s past remarks on women and reproductive rights.

As WLT Report previously reported, Melinda Gates announced she was stepping down from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last month.