Trump’s first campaign promise makes us sick (literally)
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Trump’s first campaign promise makes us sick (literally)

The Harris campaign tried, with good reason, to convince white women that their future was at stake. Trump is almost certain to oversee a further rollback of reproductive rights, and the president-elect has also openly flirted with a federal ban on abortion.

And yet it was not a winning message for white women. A recent one Times/Siena showed that the majority of white women, like their white male counterparts, saw inflation and the economy as their top voting issue. Abortion came second and immigration third. To be sure, there’s a notable age breakdown here: Gen Z women voted just 36 percent for Trump, women ages 30 to 44 voted 41 percent for Trump, women ages 45 to 64 voted 48 percent for Trump, and women over 65 supported former president 45 percent.

At a dinner this month, Trump mocked one of the pro-Harris affinity groups. “There’s a group called ‘White Dudes for Harris,'” he said, “but I’m not worried about them at all, because their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me.”