Posted on 07/27/2018 5:50:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump targeted his 2016 election opponent during a manufacturing tour of the midwest Thursday afternoon. Trump attacked the number of women who voted for Hillary Clinton in a speech to the recently reopened Granite City Works Steel Coil Warehouse in Granite City, Illinois. The wide-ranging speech focused on trade and economic policies but Trump veered off to recall why some Americans voted for him in the underdog election.
“They said manufacturing is obsolete,” Trump said of his Democrat opponents, “I said let’s figure this out. How do you make things if you don’t manufacture?”
Trump then pressed his economic and unemployment data, saying “I’m very proud of this. African American unemployment has reached its lowest level in history. Hispanic unemployment has reached its lowest level in history. Asian unemployment has reached its lowest levels in history.”
Trump noted low unemployment numbers for women saying, “They said, ‘Why would women vote for trump?’ I don’t know. I got more than [Hillary Clinton] did. Pretty good.”
Trumps numbers are partially correct. According to election data:
Overall, 54% of women voted for Clinton, much higher than the 42% of women who voted for Trump. But when the women’s vote is divided by race, it becomes clear that black women actually largely drove the so-called gender gap against Trump.
The majority of non-college educated white women (64%) voted for Trump, while 35% backed Clinton. This figure is far higher than non-college educated black women, of which only 3% voted for Trump, and non-college educated Hispanic women, of which 25% voted for Trump. Black, Hispanic and other non-white women backed Clinton in far greater numbers.
“Women, sorry disappoint you,” Trump added, “Women, unemployment only reached a 65-year low. I’m sorry. I’d like to apologize. I want to apologize to the women in the audience.”
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I believe Trump rec’d 54% of the white women vote so I’m good with that.
My wife and a gal-pal of hers didn’t.
At least they picked the libertarian.
Hillary took every opportunity to demean, debase and marginalize any woman who dared expose her husband's sexual activities....
just like Harvey's desperate effort to attack his victims to keep himself out of jail.
Hillary set up a "Bimbo Eruption Team" (her words) with our tax dollars that ran for 8 years in the WH west wing.
Harvey used company funds to set up employee teams that assisted him in his sexual assaults.....
making his targets think meetings with him were legit.......while he made his sexual plans.
I will never forget the look on Slick Willy’s face at the debate when President Trump brought out three of his victims. Epic moment.
Much, much more should have been made of the way Hillary tried to destroy those women.
MISSED IT by that much.Thanks.
Wow. Non college educated white women voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
So there are three major groups of women who voted for Trump, that I know of:
1. Non college white women.
2. White women overall.
3. Married women.
Minority women voted heavily Hillary, but for unknown reasons, minority groups tend to vote for anyone who is a Democrat. They didn’t vote for Hillary because of supporting a woman president and all that, they voted Hillary because she’s a Democrat.
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