Women are more reliable voters than men, and they just don't like Donald Trump and J.D. Vance's antics, according to a new report.
The former president and his running mate have long histories of, in Trump's case, saying vulgar and sexist remarks about women, and in Vance's case, describing women in pseudoscientific terms that focus on their abilities to bear and rear children – and polls suggest women strongly prefer Kamala Harris, reported Axios.
Both Republicans have been caught on tape making disparaging or off-putting remarks about women, such as Trump casually saying Harris is "so f------ bad" while sitting on a golf cart, while off camera he reportedly called her a b----," and he infamously boasted about grabbing women by the genitals in a 2005 "Access Hollywood" recording that surfaced weeks before the 2016 election.
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Trump during his presidency and subsequent campaigns has attacked women lawmakers and journalists by insulting their looks and calling them "crazy," "unhinged," and "nasty."
Vance, on the other hand, has aggravated many women by referring to Harris and other leading Democrats as "childless cat ladies" in a 2021 interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and other resurfaced clips of him discussing his ideas about women's role in society have also gone viral.
In another clip, from 2020, he suggested that women in abusive relationships should try to stick it out and lamented that divorce had become too easy under the law.
"This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that, like, well, okay, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy," Vance said, "and so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that's going to make people happier in the long term."
A recent poll found women backed Harris 54-41 in Pennsylvania, a crucial swing state, while men preferred Trump 49-42, but Harris was up 48-45 overall.
Trump advisers are reportedly aware of their vulnerability with women and fear that Trump will come off as paternalistic, racist, or misogynistic in the debate, and while his campaign has focused on driving up turnout among young men, they understand they need swing state women to win.
"[Trump] has made record gains across the board with every voting group," said campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, "[and] has an undefeated debate record and he will prosecute the case against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz."
