CNN panelist Ashley Allison pondered Wednesday why a majority of white women voted for President-elect Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Allison said Democrats need to ask themselves why white women tend to support Trump over Harris and former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016. said. She said many suspect that the electorate will support Harris in droves after the Roe v. Wade reversal, given that the electorate broadly supports Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. pointed out.
“Let me just say this: I know I’m going to get a lot of hate on Twitter for saying this, but this is not just a conversation we need to have with working class people, we need to have a conversation with white women as well.” said Alison. . “What’s going on? And when it comes to Hillary Clinton, 50% of white women voted for Donald Trump, but this year 57% voted. And because of Roe, white women voted for Kamala Harris. I think there was a belief that it would come, because they did in 2020. But it wasn’t at the presidential level, it was in the Senate, House races, gubernatorial races.
According to NBC News, a significant percentage of white women voted for Trump over Harris. exit poll We found that 52% of this voter base supports the president-elect. An overwhelming majority (62%) of white women without a degree supported Mr. Trump, while 59% of white women with a degree voted for Ms. Harris. According to In the Washington Post. (Related: Mark Cuban tells ‘The View’ that President Trump would “never be with a strong, intelligent woman”)
Harris won the general female vote 53% to 45%, according to an NBC News exit poll. 92% of black women and 61% of Latinx women supported Harris, and many nonwhite women voted for the vice president over Trump.
Harris gained significant support among women ahead of the 2024 election, and the then-Republican candidate gained significant support among men, widening the gender gap between her and Trump.
In 2016, Trump secured a 52% to 43% victory over Clinton among white women. According to CNN exit poll. Clinton won all women by a margin of 54% to 41%.
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