President Donald Trump said Wednesday morning that “prominent housewives” would vote for him in November, claiming they want “security.”
However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of women living in the suburbs have rejected the president.
“The ‘suburban housewife’ will vote for me. They want security and are happy that I ended the long-running program, in which low-income housing would invade their neighborhood. Biden would reinstall it, in a larger form, with Corey Booker in the lead! ”Trump tweeted.
The â & # x20AC; & # x2122; front housewifeâ ???? will vote for me. They want security and are happy that I ended the long-running program in which low-income housing would invade their neighborhood. Biden would reinstall it, in a larger form, with Corey Booker in charge! @foxandriends @MariaBartiromo
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2020
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While it is not clear how women will vote in November, a recent poll by NPR / PBS NewsHour / Marist showed that 66 percent of suburban women deviate from the job Trump does, with 58 percent saying said she “strongly disapproved.”
On Friday, The Washington Post reported that an average of national polls since the end of June shows that female voters overwhelmingly favor Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden over Trump – by a margin of 23 percentage points.
Democrats are also hopeful about Biden’s chances because of the results of the midterm of 2018, when polls by CNN showed that women support Democratic candidates above Republicans by a margin of nearly 20 percent. That represented the largest gap in three decades, according to Politico.
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“There was a gender gap when it came [2016 Democratic presidential candidate] Hillary Clinton, but now there’s a gender gap, “said GOP strategist Sarah Longwell The Post.
Overall, national polls and surveys conducted in major swing states suggest that Biden is the preferred candidate to win in November.
The latest average of national polls, according to Real Clear Politics, shows the Democratic challenger ahead of the GOP local president by nearly 7 points. Biden also appears to be thriving in Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – states that went blue for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 before shooting red for Trump in 2016.
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A new Election Forecast released by FiveThirtyEight on Wednesday saw Biden win in 71 percent of 40,000 different simulations. Trump only won in 29 percent. But Nate Silver, the site’s founder and editor, pointed out that these results were equal to what was predicted for the 2016 election.
Trump campaign officials have consistently rejected negative polls for the president, claiming that pollsters are generally biased against Republicans. They also pointed to the results of the 2016 election, when most polls and forecasts suggested Clinton would win.
Trump, however, drew a series of victories in major battlefield states, setting himself up for a big win in the Electoral College – despite Clinton having received nearly 3 million more individual votes.
