Women have registered and voted at higher rates than men at every US presidential election since 1980. Now Trump is also losing his edge among white women – the very group that helped propel him to office.
Erick Erickson was furious. The American conservative talk show host had just watched Donald Trump give an interview to NBC suggesting he was about to soften his stance on abortion.
A “Reproductive Freedom Bus” leaves after the kickoff of the Harris-Walz campaign reproductive rights bus tour in Boynton Beach, Florida, on Tuesday.Women have registered and voted at higher rates than men at every US presidential election since 1980. Now, they’re leaning heavily towards Kamala Harris, the 59-year-old prosecutor-turned-politician who could end up being the first woman to occupy the Oval Office.
According to the poll, Trump – who still rates better than Harris among men – had a 13-point advantage among white women before the convention last month; now, that advantage has dropped to a mere two points.Veteran political analyst Larry Sabato says polls are only ever a snapshot in time. As a cautionary tale, he cites Hillary Clinton – who led Trump by an 18-point margin among women at this stage of the cycle in 2016 and still went on to lose the election that year.
There’s no doubt Trump has struggled to recalibrate ever since Biden announced on July 21 that he would withdraw his campaign for re-election and immediately endorsed his vice president as his preferred nominee. “We are going to elect our first woman president!” declared Philadelphia resident Gail Vladimir, who attended the event with her husband, Lary.It was evident, too, at last month’s Democratic National Convention, where thousands of women wore white – the universal colour of female empowerment – to watch Harris formally accept her nomination.
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