11/14/2018
The GOP appears to be alienating women who two years ago came out to vote President Trump into office. According to exit poll data compiled by Edison Research, 59 percent of women voted for Democrats in the Nov. 6 elections, up from 54 percent who cast ballots for the party in 2016.
In 2016, Trump's then-opponent Hillary Clinton made history as the first major-party presidential nominee who was a woman. But ultimately, that fact did not help her win a majority of the white female vote. According to Edison, 52 percent of white women voted for Trump while only 43 percent backed Clinton in 2016. Two years later, white women split between the two parties with 49 percent voting for Republicans and 49 percent voting for Democrats.
"Part of the reason is definitely the president's toxic rhetoric is very anti-women and women are not ignoring that," Pia Nargundkar, a pollster with the Democratic firm ALG Research, said Wednesday on "What America's Thinking."
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