Trump popped in on “Fox & Friends” on Friday and dropped this gem: “Without abortion, the women love me.”
You nearly have to offer him a spherical of applause for practically stumbling right into a factual assertion. Nearly.
He’s partly appropriate: Girls are mad that the Supreme Court docket’s conservative majority, half of which he appointed, overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional proper to abortion. Like, throw-your-remote-at-the-TV mad. However “women love me”? Uh, no.
The polling knowledge is evident: Girls should not loving him. The most recent New York Occasions/Siena Faculty nationwide ballot exhibits a staggering 16-percentage-point gender hole between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris—and it’s not in his favor.
Why? For starters, abortion is the prime difficulty for feminine voters below 30. And if Trump thought he might simply fumble by an all-female city corridor—one which Fox Information stacked with MAGA supporters—and lip-service his means again onto ladies’s good facet, suppose once more.
And now Trump is backtracking.
“It’s going to be redone. They’re going to, you’re going to, you end up with a vote of the people,” Trump mentioned on Tuesday. “They’re too tough, too tough. And those are going to be redone because already there’s a movement in those states.”
Nevertheless it’s too late.
Amber Thurman, whose demise is linked to Georgia’s strict abortion ban, can’t be introduced again to life. Her son should dwell with out his mom endlessly. And girls in Texas are compelled to hold ectopic pregnancies, thereby compromising their future fertility. A youngster compelled to hold a toddler conceived by sexual assault to time period will dwell with that trauma for the remainder of her life.
In the meantime, even former first woman Melania Trump disagrees along with her husband. In selling her memoir, she vaguely asserted her perception in abortion rights—which is handy timing, in fact, coming a few month earlier than the presidential election.
And let’s not overlook a main demographic that helped put him within the White Home in 2016: working-class white ladies, particularly these within the suburbs. In 2024, they’re once more key to a Trump victory. His mistake to assist overturn Roe might value him dearly, and he appears to realize it.
So whereas he’s steadily canceling interviews outdoors of his protected area, Harris goes into the Fox’s den, working a decent floor recreation, vowing to enshrine the protections of Roe into legislation, and mobilizing ladies to prove on the poll field.
