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Women Were Supposed to Stop Trump From Getting Elected in 2016 — This Time It Might Actually Happen
Newsweek ^ | June 10, 2020 | Alexandra Hutzler

Posted on 06/10/2020 9:11:16 AM PDT by Stravinsky

But the president might not get so lucky this time around. A wave of new polling shows that Trump is doing significantly worse among women than he was four years ago. According to an analysis from the New York Times, Trump trailed Clinton by 14 points among female voters heading into 2016. Today, he's behind expected Democratic nominee Joe Biden by 25 points.

"That's a huge falloff and a big problem," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the center-right American Action Forum.

Plus, a key demographic that helped seal Trump's electoral victory is starting to erode. Recent polling shows that white working-class women are moving away from the president, which could deliver a huge blow to his campaign in key swing states like Wisconsin and Michigan.

Trump's support from white working-class women has plunged 11 percentage points, according to a report from the Brookings Institution. Clinton lost this group to Trump by 27 points in 2016. Today, Biden is trailing the president by only 6 points.

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Polls also show that Trump's handling of protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd is not sitting well with female voters. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week showed that seven out of 10 suburban women expressed sympathy toward the protesters and that six out of 10 disapproved of Trump's handling of the unrest.

"There is a large gender gap right now in American politics. I'm not saying Trump invented it, but he certainly widened it. I think he'll have cause to regret that," Galston said.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020electionbias; bs; dnctalkingpoints; fakenews; hysteria; misogyny; newsweak; tds; trump; trump2020; women
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To: dp0622

William Golding tried to warn us with his novel, Lord of the Flies...


81 posted on 06/10/2020 12:18:54 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: Stravinsky

A wave of new polling shows that Trump is doing significantly worse among women than he was four years ago....

This is Newsweek Magazine.

don’t believe it.


82 posted on 06/10/2020 12:22:59 PM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: BlackAdderess

I think your insights are original. I haven’t seen anything like them elsewhere.

Food for thought.


83 posted on 06/10/2020 12:26:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Stravinsky

Women’s suffrage was the downfall of Western Civilizatio!


84 posted on 06/10/2020 12:51:02 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Pilated

Set of boobs? You meant there is more than one of you who...
Oh, wait, I get it. ;-)


85 posted on 06/10/2020 1:00:14 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
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To: Stravinsky

Newsweek having a wet dream again.


86 posted on 06/10/2020 1:01:19 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, I agree. I still remember seeing the glee among the young gals at a hair salon on voting day when Obama won for the 2nd time. I could just tell they were excited to vote for the “cool” candidate. It makes me sad.

Voters have chosen the cool or celebrity candidate ever since Clinton, and maybe when JFK won. This might work in Trump’s favor, because nobody thinks that old crock Biden is cool. Let’s hope.


87 posted on 06/10/2020 1:03:39 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
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To: Stravinsky

Wait until the anarchists start taking more territory. Those liberal women with children will get scared right quick.


88 posted on 06/10/2020 1:06:05 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: Pining_4_TX

Television ruined politics, JFK was just the beginning.


89 posted on 06/10/2020 1:07:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Good point. It hasn’t gotten any better since, either.


90 posted on 06/10/2020 1:09:04 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
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To: KC_Lion

“Ever single married or single White Woman I know (apart from family) are voting for Biden.”

Every single married or single White Woman I know (including family) are voting for Trump.


91 posted on 06/10/2020 1:16:10 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: cuban leaf

They will double down, as usual.


92 posted on 06/10/2020 1:53:58 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf
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To: KC_Lion

“....The reason is what they see on TV about Trump ....”

Yup, and our job is to tell them what Trump stands for, compared to what Biden stands for.


93 posted on 06/10/2020 3:24:41 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: frank ballenger

Thinking is the thing we need to do. Hopefully the GOP strategists who get paid the big bucks will be doing so as well.


94 posted on 06/10/2020 6:56:17 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
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To: KC_Lion

You are hanging out with the wrong women!


95 posted on 06/10/2020 6:59:51 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: frank ballenger

It looks to me as though the left is trying to choose the battlefield, and the GOP is not going to win playing by the left’s “rules” on the left’s field.


96 posted on 06/10/2020 7:19:12 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
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To: BlackAdderess

Yes. Always a losing idea. But typical after Reagan’s 2nd term. Compromise and reaching across the aisle went sour fast.


97 posted on 06/10/2020 7:23:40 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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