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For all of this, it is always dangerous to write off Trump's chances with female voters. Like most reporters who reported on Trump's win in 2016, I was convinced his candidacy was dead and buried after Trump's infamous emergence. Access Hollywood The tape showed him bragging about grabbing women's “pussy”. However, just a month later, he ended up winning more votes from white women than Hillary Clinton. In New Hampshire last week, even as he bullied and belittled Haley, he still attracted more female support than she did.
Biden hopes that the abortion issue, and Trump's role in overturning Roe v. Wade by elevating three hardline conservative justices to the Supreme Court, will strengthen his standing among women. Even in conservative states, such as Kansas and Ohio, voters decided in referendums to keep abortion legal. However, even though I take credit for the Supreme Court's landmark ruling – “I managed to kill Roe v. Wade. I managed to kill Roe v. Wade.”,Trump boasted – the kind of moderate Republicans who support Haley tend to see as a fellow moderate on this issue.
Despite the demands of white evangelicals — many of whom continue to idolize him — Trump has not called for a nationwide abortion ban at 15 weeks. So, while reproductive rights will undoubtedly help Biden, they may not be the decisive winner of suburban women's votes as Democrats assume — a repeat, most likely, of what happened with suburban women. Access Hollywood Scandal in 2016.
To broaden his appeal, Trump could choose a woman as his running mate — Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.
But more lawsuits would once again highlight his misogyny, especially his trial in New York over hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, whom he often called “Horseface.” It also doesn't help that his wife appears to have boycotted the campaign trail, turning “Missing Melania” into a meme.
So, while the primary season demonstrated Trump's omnipotence within the Republican Party, it also exposed weaknesses within the American electorate as a whole. An unlikely duo of a former New York aunt and a former red state governor reveal their woman problem.
Nick Bryant, former BBC correspondent in Washington, is the author of When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present.
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