Scott Galloway Explains Why Young Men Should Vote for Kamala Harris | Pivot
Scott Galloway (host), Kara Swisher (host)
In this episode of Pivot, featuring Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher, Scott Galloway Explains Why Young Men Should Vote for Kamala Harris | Pivot explores scott Galloway Urges Young Men: Real Masculinity Means Voting Harris Scott Galloway publicly endorses the Harris–Walz ticket and argues that a Harris administration would materially benefit young men more than a second Trump term.
Scott Galloway Urges Young Men: Real Masculinity Means Voting Harris
Scott Galloway publicly endorses the Harris–Walz ticket and argues that a Harris administration would materially benefit young men more than a second Trump term.
He frames his case around a three-part “modern masculinity” code: being a provider, a protector, and a procreator, and links each pillar to policy and cultural implications.
For providers, he emphasizes long‑term economic growth, lower deficits, and targeted supports for housing and small business as advantages under Harris compared with Trump’s deficit expansion, which he calls a deferred tax on the young.
For protectors and procreators, he connects support for marginalized groups and women’s bodily autonomy with a healthier society, stronger relationships, and even greater sexual freedom for young men.
Key Takeaways
Young men are a crucial, underutilized voting bloc.
Because they traditionally turn out less, but lean Democratic when engaged, Galloway argues young men could significantly influence the election if mobilized.
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Modern masculinity can be organized around three roles: provider, protector, procreator.
He suggests men need a clear ‘code’ and proposes economic responsibility, protecting others, and building families as anchors in a confusing world.
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Deficits function as a massive future tax on young people.
Galloway claims Trump’s policies would triple the deficit relative to a Harris administration, meaning older generations consume benefits now while younger generations pay later.
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Economic policy directly affects men’s ability to be providers.
He cites growth-focused plans, housing credits, and small-business loans under Harris as mechanisms that put more money in younger people’s pockets and support household responsibility.
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Authentic masculinity includes protecting vulnerable groups, not attacking them.
He argues that “real men” defend immigrants, LGBTQ people, and others being demonized, and praises Tim Walz’s story of mobilizing a football team to defend bullied LGBTQ students.
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Women’s bodily autonomy is directly tied to men’s sexual freedom and economic stability.
Galloway asserts that restricting abortion makes women more fearful of sex, increases the risk of unwanted pregnancies, and creates economic hardship for both partners—ultimately resulting in less sex, not more.
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Voting for Harris aligns with self-interest if young men value sex, family, and stability.
He bluntly frames the argument as: if young men want more sex, healthier relationships, and control over when and how they form families, they should support candidates who protect reproductive rights.
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Notable Quotes
“I am officially endorsing Harris–Walz for president and vice president, and my prediction is that a Harris administration would be much better for young men.”
— Scott Galloway
“Everybody needs kind of an anchor to hold onto and guide the millions of decisions they have to make in a complicated world.”
— Scott Galloway
“Your default setting as a man should be one of protection. Real men break up fights in bars. They don’t start them.”
— Scott Galloway
“What young people haven’t connected the dots on is that deficit spending is nothing but a tax on them, such that I can have champagne and cocaine now. You’re gonna have to pay it back, not me.”
— Scott Galloway
“If you want to have sex, vote Harris.”
— Kara Swisher, summarizing Scott Galloway
Questions Answered in This Episode
How persuasive is Galloway’s framing of political choice through the lens of male self-interest and masculinity, and could it backfire?
Scott Galloway publicly endorses the Harris–Walz ticket and argues that a Harris administration would materially benefit young men more than a second Trump term.
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Do you agree that deficits should be understood by young voters primarily as a future tax, and how might that change their voting behavior?
He frames his case around a three-part “modern masculinity” code: being a provider, a protector, and a procreator, and links each pillar to policy and cultural implications.
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Is defining modern masculinity as provider, protector, and procreator inclusive enough, or does it risk reinforcing traditional gender norms?
For providers, he emphasizes long‑term economic growth, lower deficits, and targeted supports for housing and small business as advantages under Harris compared with Trump’s deficit expansion, which he calls a deferred tax on the young.
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How might women and marginalized communities perceive this argument that men should support reproductive rights partly to “have more sex”?
For protectors and procreators, he connects support for marginalized groups and women’s bodily autonomy with a healthier society, stronger relationships, and even greater sexual freedom for young men.
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What alternative messages could campaigns use to engage young men politically without centering the conversation on sex and gender roles?
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Transcript Preview
I don't think this is gonna come as a shocker to anyone, anybody, but I am officially endorsing, uh, Harris-Walz for president and vice president. And my prediction is that a Harris Administration would be, would be much better for young men. And I believe that young men are some of the last available swing voters because they don't traditionally vote. When they get excited, they vote. They almost always, or they disproportionally vote, at least until recently, for Democrats. So, I believe the new, kinda the swing voters are young men, and this is why I think young men would be better served, uh, voting for Vice President Harris, and that I encourage them to do so. And that is, I think it, everybody needs a code, whether it's from your religion, whether it's from the armed services, whether it's from your company, everybody needs kind of an anchor to hold onto and guide the millions of decisions they have to make in a complicated world. And I increasingly believe that young men, uh, can call on or what I'm hoping they can develop as a new code is a modern form of masculinity, and those three things are the following: being a, uh, a provider, a protector and a procreator. And I wanna go through each of these and why I believe the Harris, uh, Administration and policies would enable men to foot to those.
Yeah, I like this. By the way, The Washington Post has yet to make one. Jeff Bezos, get off your ass and make one.
There you go.
But go ahead. I love that you're doing it too.
Okay. So, provider. I think a decent place for any man to start is to take economic responsibility for, for his household. And now, that doesn't mean that-
Mm-hmm.
... you're gonna get in the way of your wife or your partner who might be better at that money thing. When my partner was at Goldman Sachs and making more money than me, I tried to pick up the slack at home and not be threatened by it, and that is also taking economic responsibility. But a good starting point is that recognizing three in four women see economic viability as key to a mate. It's only one in four men about women. Unfortunately, I'm not talking about the way the world should be, but the way it is, men are disproportionately valua- evaluated on their economic viability. You need to be a provider. And under the Harris Administration, you're talking about, uh, an economic strategy that everyone from Goldman Sachs to basically every living Nobel Prize winner in economics is gonna say it's gonna, uh, winner, it's gonna result in greater growth. And with the Trump Administration as a young man, you are talking about what will effectively be the greatest tax increase in history on you, and it's the following. It'll be a deficit that will be triple than what would be under the Harris Administration. Why is a deficit the biggest tax in history on you? Because Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway will not be alive to pay back that deficit. You will have to pay it back. So, what young people haven't connected the dots on is that deficit spending is nothing but a tax on them, such that I can have champagne and cocaine now. You're gonna have to pay it back, not me. There are a variety of different economic plans, whether it's a housing credit, whether it's loans for small businesses, that are meant to put more money in the pockets of young people, specifically young men, and enable you to be a better provider. Protector. Your default setting as a man should be one of protection. You don't need to understand the nuance around illegal or undocumented workers, but when you see them being de- uh, demonized, your, your default setting should be to move to protection. You don't n- need to understand or agree with the trans community, but when you see them being demonized, your default should be as a protector. Real men break up fights in bars. They don't start them. Real men protect their country. They don't (clears throat) shitpost it. Harris and Walz have a much greater default setting around protection, and I especially think Vice President Walz presents a wonderful image as a man at being a protector, and that is... And I love the story of him hearing about the LGBT community at his high school, feeling bullied, and him enacting the football team to come to their aid. That is exactly what it means to be a man, to be a protector. And then finally, procreator. The most rewarding thing in life, and I'm not saying you have to do this to be happy, but the most rewarding thing I know in your life, Kara, and in my life has been raising children with a competent, loving partner. And I did not, when I saw my partner and the mother of my children at the Raleigh Hotel at the pool, I was not thinking that she'd be great at buying distressed properties and fixing them up, or she'd be a good person to save for her 401K. I had one thought, and that is, "I would really, really like to have sex with this person." And wanting to have sex with women and being successful at it and figuring out the nuance and the skills and the strength and the humor and showering and enduring the rejection and being funny and being kind such that you can have sex with women is a wonderful thing, and it's something you should be proud of. And your ability, your ability to be attractive to women will be easier under a Harris Administration. And if I did a survey around would young men like to have more or less sex, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them would say, "I would like to have more sex." And if you wanna have more sex, if you wanna have more sex, then we absolutely need to cauterize, reject, turn around this ridiculous notion that women are gonna have their bodily autonomy taken. Because if you wanna have random sex, and let's be clear, the majority (laughs) of relationships involve at some point maybe a little bit of alcohol and a little bit of random sex. If the woman is thinking about random sex and then says, "You know what? I might be in an emergency room parking lot unable to terminate a pregnancy even if I have sepsis because the doctor might go to jail," if I have to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, both you and her are gonna be economically disabled. The fastest way to have less sex is to let more people get on the Supreme Court and to take away women's bodily autonomy. So guys, you wanna get laid more? Make sure women have-
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