Harris and Trump are trying to address the gender gap. Their approaches could not be more different.
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A Trump town hall in Georgia, broadcast on Fox news, featured a crowd of all women.
If you have been reading this newsletter with any regularity (and I’m grateful that you have), you’ll know by now that this whole election might just turn on gender.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who has sought to frame her campaign in part as a referendum on women’s reproductive freedoms, is running up the numbers with women. Former President Donald Trump, who has turned the act of running for president into a paean to machismo, has built a solid lead with men. The question of who benefits more from this disparity could very well determine who wins the election.
Enter Representative Byron Donalds of Florida, who sought to appeal directly to women as he warmed up the crowd for Trump at a rally last night in Atlanta.
“Ladies here tonight in Georgia — and by the way, ladies, you look great, ya’ll look good,” he said, before doling out physical compliments to individual members of the crowd.
“Ladies,” he continued, “in this election, there should be no gender gap, because a Trump presidency is a presidency that has a strong economy, has safe streets, has a foreign policy that makes sense, and it is a presidency that respects women, protects women, actually protects Title IX.”
It was an unsubtle example of the way Trump and his allies are scrambling to shore up their standing with women, a process that is unfolding while Harris undertakes her own effort to narrow the gap she faces with men. Both candidates are trying to address the gender gap by stepping right into it — although their approaches and messages could not sound more different.
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