Trump's 'aggressive, macho and somewhat whiny style' is coming back to haunt him: analyst
Above and beyond Donald Trump's legal woes bedeviling his 2024 presidential campaign, the former president's highly charged rhetoric combined with his whining about how he feels he is being persecuted is turning off the very voters he desperately needs in order to win.
Already dogged by his boasting about how he "killed" Roe v. Wade, which has caused a major rift with so-called suburban moms, Trump's very style of campaigning in his third bid for the Oval Office is also turning off women.
According to a report from Newsweek, political analysts claim the former president may be facing an insurmountable challenge to gather up the votes he needs if he fails to make any inroads with women. at the same time where it appears he is driving more of them away.
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As Newsweek's Kate Plummer wrote, "According to a January Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters, 58 percent of women now back Biden while 36 percent back Trump. In December, the same polling company found the gap was 53 percent to 41 percent, showing Trump's support among women is declining."
Asked why Trump is losing more women as the election nears, Heath Brown, an associate professor at City University of New York, claimed the gender gap between Republicans and Democrats "will grow in the future."
"One contributing factor is the importance placed on women's reproductive justice, the issue that there is the greatest difference in importance between young men (42 percent) and young women (58 percent)," Brown elaborated.
Mark Shanahan, an associate professor in politics at the University of Surrey, pinned a lot of the GOP's problems on Trump by pointing out his whole schtick is off-putting to women.
"In 2016, there was a myth that Trump won more votes from women than Clinton—he didn't, around 42 percent of women voted for him. That figure remained almost the same in 2020, although the ex-president performed somewhat better among older, white and especially evangelical women," he stated before concluding, "But Trump's aggressive, macho and somewhat whiny style appears to be working even less well in attracting female voters outside this MAGA core this time."
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