Women are central, essential, crucial — pick your adjective – to Joe Biden’s chances for winning in November. On Wednesday night, Democrats leaned hard into that political truth.
One reason: there are considerably less Republican women in office. There are twice as many women Democratic governors as Republicans, a fact on display Wednesday night. Congress is similar story: In January 2019, Democrats swore in a historic 89 women to the House, comprising nearly 40 percent of the Democratic caucus. On the Republican side there are just 13, making up just 6.5 percent of the GOP conference.
Back in 2016, Clinton won a majority of women overall, but she did so by a slightly slimmer margin. She also lost white women to Trump. In her own speech Wednesday night, she nodded toward those voters: “This can’t be another woulda coulda shoulda election,” she said. “We need numbers [that are] overwhelming.”
Trump has noticed he’s hemorrhaging support among suburban, often white, women, and is making overt last-minute efforts to win them back. Last week, he tweeted that the “’suburban housewife’ will be voting for me” because “they want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long running program where low income housing would invade their neighborhood.”
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