AP: Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics

[highplainsdem]

https://apnews.com/e1d98f7567f947d49f698e3ee0f234a3

In more than three dozen interviews by The Associated Press with women in critical suburbs, nearly all expressed dismay — or worse — at Trump’s racially polarizing insults and what was often described as unpresidential treatment of people. Even some who gave Trump credit for the economy or backed his crackdown on immigration acknowledged they were troubled or uncomfortable lining up behind the president.

The interviews in suburbs outside Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detroit and Denver are a warning light for the Republican president’s reelection campaign. Trump did not win a majority of female voters in 2016, but he won enough — notably winning white women by a roughly 10 percentage-point margin, according to the American National Election Studies survey — to help him eke out victories across the Rust Belt and take the White House.

Since then, there are few signs Trump has expanded his support among women. The 2018 midterms amounted to a strong showing of opposition among women in the suburbs, registering in unprecedented turnout overall, a Democratic House and a record number of women elected in statehouses across the country.

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Pollsters say it is difficult to measure whether female voters will count Trump’s behavior against him more than their male counterparts will in 2020. But interviews with women reveal a clear discomfort with Trump’s character: It emerged again and again in the AP’s interviews and was a consistent objection cited by women across the political spectrum.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I hope those women will rise up unanimously against him.

It would be so damn good if we women made the difference between success and failure for the Presidency.

[llmart]

4. I truly believe that it will be women who will decide this election.

n/t

[femmedem]

5. Also good if black people made the difference between success and failure.

Or young people. Or former Green Party voters who have seen the error of their ways. Or, well, anybody except old white rural men.

Edited to add: no offense meant to old white rural male Democrats!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. In Trump's mind, they find him to be a protector of their white virtue.

But then again, Trump's never progressed past the Fifties.

[Cha]

3. KR!