Trump appears to have put his electoral stock fully in the gun-rights crowd, and at a point when the politics of gun control are shifting for the first time in decades.
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he returns to the White House after attending the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. Suburban women, a key voting bloc in the upcoming election, may not countenance the president's new push against gun control.The prospect of new gun legislation came to a screeching halt on Friday in a stunning development reported by.
Support for stricter gun laws has generally ticked up since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2013, according to Gallup. In the decades prior, notwithstanding individual spikes in support, desire for tightening gun laws experienced a steady, gradual decrease. In the 2016 election, suburban voters went for Trump by a slim margin, according to a detailed post-election analysis conducted by the Pew Research Center. White women comprised 41 percent of the electorate, more of them pulled the lever for Trump than did for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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