“We can’t go back to Donald Trump,” Julie Drizin told The Daily Signal on Saturday at the “We Won’t Go Back”-themed Women’s March in Washington, D.C.
Sporting a “RESIST” pin on her right side, a “FEMINIST AF” and transgender flag pin on her right side, and holding a Trump baby balloon, Drizin added, “We can’t go back to a world where abortion is not freely available to any women without apology.”
Drizin, a 61-year-old from Silver Spring, Maryland, joined several thousand other women to participate in Saturday’s march, and was open about her support for Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee running against former President Trump.
“I think having a black, BIPOC president again, but a woman, is going to make a huge difference on all of our rights,” she said.
Asked if she is confident Harris can win, Drizin said she is “scared sh–less. I’m really just scared sh–less, you know. I wanted Hillary Clinton to win,” she said, describing Clinton’s loss to Trump in 2016 as “tragic.”
“I won’t breathe easy or sleep well until this election is over and unless we win,” she said.
Many of the women, such as Linda Nester, said they were marching for their daughters. Nester, 58, traveled to D.C. from Washington state for the Women’s March because she wants her daughter “to be able to get an abortion if she wants to.”
Melinda Lewis said she traveled to D.C. from Irving, Texas, for the ‘We Won’t Go Back’ march because she wants her granddaughter to grow up with “the same rights” she had.
“I think we should have the right to have an abortion if it’s medically necessary,” Lewis, 71, said.
Asked what rights she has enjoyed under the Biden-Harris administration that she didn’t under the Trump administration, Lewis said, “I don’t know that I can answer that, honestly.”
“I am totally for Harris,” she continued, “because I believe that Trump is only for himself and his billionaire friends. I think he is a danger to our society, and I am hoping that we still have, after next week, a country left.”
Dressed as suffragettes, mother and daughter Kim and Alex Swords said they marched in honor of the women who fought for the rights of women.
“We don’t want to go back to what was going on back in the 1800s and anytime, I mean, we don’t want to go back a step,” Kim Swords, a 69-year-old resident of Fairfax, Virginia, said. “We want to save all of women’s rights, we want to save all constitutional rights, and we want to bring that to the attention of everyone that the only way to do that is to vote democratic, not just for Kamala, which is great, but all the way down the ticket.”
Many marchers held homemade signs expressing their dislike of Trump or their support of certain political issues.
About 67 million Americans have cast their vote in the 2024 presidential election so far.
This article was originally published at www.dailysignal.com
