What Women Want

Female voters are showing their power – and it’s not helping President Donald Trump.

AFTER MASSIVE WOMEN’S Marches, a powerful movement to expose sexual harassment and an explosion of women considering a run for elected office, America is almost certain to elect a man to the presidency in November.
However, women will have an enormous – perhaps pivotal – role in deciding which man it will be.

Female voters this year are more involved in the political process and are throwing lopsided support to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden – in many battleground states, by heavier margins than they backed Hillary Clinton, the first female major party nominee for president, in 2016, according to polling data. Continue reading.

Women voters spell trouble for Trump in 2020

The Hill logoPolls show President Trump losing women voters by huge margins, presenting his reelection campaign with a massive hurdle to overcome as he seeks a second term in office.

Perhaps most alarmingly for Trump, the president is losing support from the white women who were pivotal to his electoral success in 2016.

Exit polls and post-election studies found Trump outperforming Democrat Hillary Clinton among white women in 2016, a statistic that the president cites on the campaign trail to combat the notion that he’s struggling with a widening gender gap in support.

View the complete August 30 article by Jonathan Easley on The Hill website here.

Trump’s giant gender gap: 62 percent of women say they are unlikely to vote for him

In a new poll, a significant majority of American women who are registered to vote say they are not likely to support President Trump’s re-election effort in 2020, setting him up with a gender gap that may prove difficult to overcome.

In a June 1-2 Hill-HarrisX survey, 62 percent of female registered voters said they were unlikely to support Trump’s bid to obtain a second term. Fifty-three percent said they were very unlikely to back Trump while 9 percent said they were somewhat unlikely. Thirty-eight percent of women who participated said they were likely to back Trump.

In the 2016 election, exit polls indicated that 41 percent of women who voted chose Trump meaning that he has likely lost some support from women during his presidency.

View the complete June 6 post on The Hill website here.

Women and young voters will decide the 2018 elections. If they actually vote.

The following article by Dan Balz was posted on the Washington Post website March 3, 2018:

Protesters participate in a Women’s March on Jan. 20 in Cincinnati. Credit: John Minchillo/AP

President Trump continues to define the political conversation of the country with Twitter blasts, public statements and often alarming reports of his behind-the-scenes behavior and moods. But two groups of voters — women and young people — will define the politics of this year, and probably 2020 as well.

These are the voters who stand most apart from the president and who are most at odds with many of the priorities he has advanced in office. Their opposition and energy will determine the level of losses Republicans suffer in the November midterm elections. Come 2020, they are likely to determine whether the president wins a second term, should he indeed seek reelection. Continue reading “Women and young voters will decide the 2018 elections. If they actually vote.”