Donald Trump Suffers Polling Blow From Women Voters

Donald Trump’s support among female voters is down, a new poll has shown.

The poll, conducted by the polling company Big Village between July 22 and 24, shows that Vice President Kamala Harris has an 11-point lead over Trump among women, with 42 percent supporting the prospective Democratic nominee compared to 31 percent backing Trump.

Trump fared better among men in the poll, with 46 percent supporting him compared to 33 percent supporting Harris.

Previous reports have highlighted that Trump’s share of the female vote is declining compared to 2020, but the situation has only been compounded since President Joe Biden announced the end of his reelection campaign on Sunday and endorsed Harris, a vocal women’s rights supporter, as his replacement.

The latest poll, which surveyed 2,016 adults and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, shows both party’s vote share among women has declined since 2020, when Biden won 55 percent of the female vote and Trump won 44 percent.

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With Harris the front-runner to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, women’s rights issues may take center stage, which could prove a problem for Trump, who has appointed an anti-abortion running mate.

During a 2021 interview, JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest should not be viewed as “inconvenient.”

“My view on this has been very clear and I think the question betrays a certain presumption that is wrong. It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society. The question really, to me, is about the baby,” he said, responding to a question about whether laws should allow women to get abortions if they are victims of rape or incest.

A poll released in May by the Pew Research Center, which surveyed 8,709 adults, found that most residents in top swing states supported abortions, meaning Vance’s previous comments could hurt the Trump campaign.

Trump has not opposed abortion rights outright, but he has previously said it should be up to states to enact their own abortion laws.

Meanwhile, Harris has consistently supported abortion rights throughout her career, co-sponsoring legislation that would ban states from imposing restrictions on abortion rights and voting against a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

In a recent interview with Sean Hannity, Vance accused the Democrats of twisting his words on abortion.

He said: “The Democrats have completely twisted my words. What I did say is that we sometimes in this society see babies as inconveniences, and I absolutely want us to change that.”