“He started calling her that last September”
Sure but only Trump nerds heard him then. He slipped badly the last two weeks in NH, in my town which he won in 2016 and again in 2020 with decent margins he only beat Haley by a handful of votes.
And the thing is, no Haley voter is voting for Trump in November. Not a one.
The woman thing is real. He’s a stubborn old man (so am I), it’s hard to adapt but he’d better get some help or Newsom is going to wipe him out.
>>”...the thing is, no Haley voter is voting for Trump in November. Not a one.”
And they never were going to vote for him whether he called her birdbrain or not. As far as Trump having a problem with women, it’s primarily white, suburban college educated women.
Pollster Rich Baris makes the point that, percentage-wise, that’s a shrinking demographic. To tailor your message to win that subset of women doesn’t make sense. If you can get them, fine. But Trump doesn’t need their votes anymore He’s on a trajectory for a massive win in November and it’s coming from new demographics that are turning the old electoral calculus on its head. Trump has won these new supporters by being Trump - insults and all, and the insults are a feature of Trump’s appeal, not a detraction. They demonstrate that he’s a fighter.