“but not Trump. The women who are against him are polarized to the extreme”
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While there are women (and men) who are polarized against him, there are also many women for him. And, like any demographic, there are many in the middle who can be persuaded.
It would be a mistake for Trump to not reach out to the middle. Biden is an embarrassment to anyone with two neurons to rub together. The middle is wide open. There are good conservative candidates who aren’t necessarily white males. This is the perfect time to be “The Big Tent”.
If he picks JDV, the middle is going to say “same old, same old, just two more angry white guys who have no idea what I’m going through”, and Trump will lose by 100 EVs.
The middle will decide this election, and Trump needs to appeal to them.
The times are changing. We no longer have 1/3 Republican, 1/3 Democrat and 1/3 Independent and both sides fight over the middle. People have picked their sides and they aren’t moving unless they are convinced through persuasion that they were wrong.
The younger demographic which is now deciding which side to pick and has always been solidly Dem is wide open....but not by pandering to them.
By reality-maxing.
By being “based”.
By being a gender/race/sex/crime/immigration/culture REALIST. People are yearning for authenticity.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/politics/gender-gap-2024-election-analysis/index.html
This is where we get more votes. Not from women who can’t decide between the abject failure of Biden and the common sense of Trump. Pro life women will always be for Trump. Pro abortion women will always be against Trump. It wouldn’t matter which woman he picked as VP. THEY WOULD NOT SUPPORT HIM.