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TA thousand people participated in protests against US President Donald Trump and for women’s rights in the United States on Saturday. In Washington and other cities, women in particular gathered to protest a possible re-election of Trump and his Supreme Court candidate Amy Coney Barrett. In the US capital, the participants began their protest march near the White House. According to the organizers, there were more marches in every state. In total there were 429, which, according to the organizers, accepted more than 116,000 people, writes the Washington Post. In Tucson, Arizona alone, more than 500 participants are said to have come.
The protests were inspired by the first Women’s March after Trump’s inauguration in 2017, when more than three million people participated. This time, due to the corona pandemic, significantly fewer people came wearing masks and had mobile disinfectant dispensers. 40-year-old participant Justina Gilliam told the Washington Post that she had attended all the Women’s Marches so far. This year’s urgency is similar to the first: “It is an act of desperation.” Kelsey Weir, a 29-year-old artist from southern New Jersey, held up a sign that read “WAP: Women Against Patriarchy.”
Also on Saturday, many participants wore the symbol of the protest of the Women’s March, the so-called Pussy Hat, alluding to Trump’s declaration that thanks to his fame he could grab women at any time. Like their role model, the late left liberal Supreme Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, many also wore white collars. Trump wants to replace Ginsburg with arch-conservative Barrett before the Nov.3 presidential election to the Supreme Court. It is feared that the seven-year-old mother will nullify the right to abortion. While he dodged this in his Congressional hearings, it was clear from the questions senators asked that they knew Barrett was against it. On Tuesday he said that the landmark 1973 ruling on abortion rights was not “universally accepted.” The Senate is due to vote on his nomination next Thursday.
According to a poll by the Washington Post and ABC News, women are more popular with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The former vice president has a 23 percentage point advantage over Trump in terms of likely female voters (59 percent to 36 percent). For men, however, Trump and Biden would be tied.
