President Trump
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Trump shared a column in the New York Post titled “Joe Biden’s Disastrous Plans for America’s Suburbs” who opined on the negative consequences of an Obama-era fair housing rule that the former vice president promised to reinstate if elected.
“Suburban Housewives of America should read this article,” Trump tweeted. “Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American dream. I will preserve it and make it even better!”
Suburban Housewives of America should read this article. Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American dream. I will preserve it and make it even better! https://t.co/1NzbR57Oe6
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020
Trump, referring to female voters with the obsolete term “suburban housewives,” scoffed and criticized on social media. “Housewives” was trending on Twitter on Thursday afternoon.
“The President of the United States thinks of women as housewives, which I suppose is better than his other comments about women,” Molly Jong Fast, a novelist and frequent critic of Trump, tweeted.
“‘Suburban Women’ Probably Would Have Worked A Little Better,” New York Times Reporter Maggie Haberman
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The tweet aligns with Trump’s rhetoric in recent weeks as he has attempted to appeal to suburban voters by fanning fear and warning against Biden’s policies that would facilitate minority access to affordable housing.
At a White House event earlier this month, Trump claimed that a Biden presidency “would totally destroy the beautiful suburbs. The suburbs will no longer be as we know them. Therefore, they wanted to eliminate and abolish their police and police while at the same time destroying our great suburbs. “
Critics have condemned Trump’s rhetoric for stoking racial spirits by suggesting that implementing fair housing standards that greatly benefit minorities would lead to the destruction of the suburbs.
On Thursday, the Trump administration repealed the Affirmatively Advanced Fair Housing rule, which was implemented in 2015 and required localities to develop plans to address housing discrimination to receive certain federal funds.
Biden has pledged in his campaign’s housing plan to reinstate the Affirmative Promotion Fair Housing rule and provide tax incentives to build more affordable housing in suburban, urban and rural areas.
Suburban voters, and suburban women in particular, will be a critical voting bloc for Trump if he hopes to win reelection in November.
A CNN exit poll found that 49 percent of suburban voters endorsed Trump in the 2016 election, compared to 45 percent who supported the Democratic candidate Hillary clinton
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But many of those same voters backed Democratic candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, and an ABC News / Washington Post poll released last week found that Biden led Trump among registered suburban voters, 52 to 43 percent.
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