The Election Gender Gap

Women’s support for the Dem ticket went way up when Harris took over. Men are not budging.

There are tons of reasons why women don’t support Trump. The question is — why are so many men still supporting him?

CNN recently exposed the “gender gap” in recent election polls. Prior to Biden’s exit, polls showed a +4 margin of women supporting Biden over Trump. That gap has widened considerably — to a 17 point lead — now that Harris is the Democratic candidate.

One could say that yeah, sure, of course women are going to support a female candidate, but it goes a lot deeper than that. There are a ton of reasons. Above and beyond the GOP’s misogynistic policies and proposed policies, MAGA politicians and pundits just can’t stop insulting women. There’s JD Vance’s wackadoodle comments about childless cat ladies; postmenopausal women’s role primarily being as grandmoms helping with the child-rearing; how his wife might not be white but “she’s a good mom”; advocating for women to stay in abusive marriages, etc.

Then there’s Laura Ingraham on Fox News yesterday insulting suburban women. In this interview with Vance, she suggests we suburban women are making too big of a deal about abortion…