Dogs Against Trump
Canines for Democracy: a dog owners manifesto as written by Elizabeth Sobieski and Peter Brav
This is an update of our manifesto, CANINES FOR DEMOCRACY, calling for dog owners and people who love dogs and seek to protect them, to vote with their hearts.
Our fellow citizens who are pinning their hopes for democracy on Taylor and her Swifties might do well to spend more time energizing American dog lovers, the one group that just might be the difference maker.
We have been asking that The Lincoln Project and Kamala Harris’s campaign, with the assistance of Ted Walz’s rescue lab mix Scout, take some lines from the following, to immediately generate a talking dog commercial with talking points, using Trump’s ugly anti-canine quotes (in italics), in order to get this enormous and underserved demographic to the polls on November 5.
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that as of 2021, there are 83.9 million households in the country, and Forbes Magazine reports that as of 2024, 65.1 million of them have at least one dog in the house. Rough mathematics suggests that of the 161.42 million people registered to vote in 2022, approximately 125 million of them have a dog in their lives to love.
