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Millions of women live in residential areas around American cities.
Now, the main threats are the chances of Donald Trump being re-elected, says Politico.
And the president himself seems to have realized the danger:
“Could you please me?” He said at an electoral meeting in Johnstown.
Joe Biden has had a seemingly reassuring lead in national opinion polls recently. A compilation of these polls gives Biden a ten percentage point lead.
But with the American electoral system, it is perfectly possible to get fewer votes than the opponent and still win. Donald Trump did that last time against Hillary Clinton.
Eight important states
The trick is to win the right states to get the magic number of electoral votes needed to get a majority. Many states are considered safe in Democratic or Republican hands. But in this election, the outcome in an unusual number of states is uncertain.
The political site Politico has identified eight states that are seen as critical of Donald Trump and Joe Biden who will win the election.
In all eight states (Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), Biden currently leads in all but one.
And there is a group of voters where Donald Trump is going through a more difficult time during this election: women in residential areas around the centers of American cities, the so-called “suburban women.” In Sweden, there is no corresponding word for living in wealthier suburbs or city suburbs.
Photo: Carolyn Kaster / AP
Joe Biden leads in seven of the eight “critical” states.
There is no happiness with women
Donald Trump has many challenges to be able to change the winds before the elections, writes Politico. You must maximize your success in sparsely populated areas, reduce losses in the suburbs, and get white working-class voters who did not vote in 2016 to the polls. Additionally, in recent weeks, the president has lost a lot of support among retirees, a constituency he won in 2016. Many of the older people have disapproved of his approach to the corona pandemic.
But the group that mostly turns their back on it are voters in residential areas, and then largely women, writes Politico.
– Honestly, of all the mothers I know, we are really worried about our children, what future they will have. And Trump is the one who makes us nervous, a woman from Livingston County, one of Michigan’s most prosperous areas, told Politico, where a Democratic presidential candidate last won in 1964. Donald Trump edged out Hillary Clinton here in the last elections.
Photo: Evan Vucci / AP
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is attracting women from the suburbs.
Appealed in electoral meeting
And the president himself seems to realize which way he is blowing. The night before Wednesday, he held an election rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, one of the eight most important states.
“Women from the suburbs, could I like you?” He said during the billowy speech.
“I’ve saved your damn areas,” he added.
According to The Hill, his appeal after much concern in Republican circles that his poor numbers in the suburbs and heavyweight states will ruin his chances of being reelected.
Donald Trump has previously been criticized for trying to lure suburban voters by stopping an Obama-era ordinance aimed at building more low-income housing around residential areas.
By law and order
– They’re talking about women in the suburbs. And someone said, “I don’t know if the suburban women like you.” And I said, “Why?” Trump said during the Johnstown election rally.
– They say “they probably don’t like the way you speak”, but I’m in favor of law and order. I’m for your safety. I am for you to have your areas. I don’t want to build low-income apartments next to their houses.
Trump added that women in residential areas should like them more than anyone else because he stopped the ordinance “that destroyed their areas, increased crime, and now they can live the American dream.”
So far, the message has not changed to these women. A Washington Post-ABC opinion poll gives Joe Biden a 13 percentage point advantage among women in these “suburban” residential areas nationwide, writes The Hill. Between both genders, Biden’s combined leadership is eight percent. In 2016, Trump won this constituency by four percent against Hillary Clinton.
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