US Election; Women tell pollsters that they prefer Kamala Harris by a similar large margin, but men favor Donald Trump by a significant margin. The gender gap in politics is a reflection of a decade of social change and may help decide the US election.
Kamala Harris goes to great lengths to avoid discussing her identity, making her the first and only woman of color to win the presidential nomination.
In an interview with CNN last month, the vice president stated, “Listen, I am running because I believe that I am the best person to do this job at this moment for all Americans, regardless of race and gender.”
Gender, on the other hand, is shaping up to be the defining issue of this campaign despite her efforts to neutralize the topic.
Since “Madame President” would be a new term in the United States, it’s reasonable to assume that while many voters would love the idea, some might be a little apprehensive about the novelty.
Although the Harris campaign won’t say it outright, a campaign official recently told me that they do believe there is “hidden sexism” that will prevent some people from supporting any woman for president.
Even though many are prepared to share misogynistic memes on social media, few people want to be the jerk who will tell a pollster outright that they don’t think a woman is fit for the Oval Office in 2024. According to a Democratic strategist, when voters tell pollsters that Harris is not “ready,” does not have the appropriate “personality,” or “what it takes,” they really mean that the issue is that she is a woman.
Getty Images Kamala Harris and Congresswoman Liz CheneyGetty Images The Trump campaign claims that gender has nothing to do with it. Congresswoman Cheney has called Trump “misogynistic.” She has been assisting Harris in promoting herself to Republican women. “The American people will reject Kamala on November 5th because she is weak, dishonest, and dangerously liberal,” it stated this week. Despite the fact that a senior campaign adviser named Bryan Lanza sent me a text stating that he is certain that Trump will win because “the male gender gap gives us the edge.”
When a woman ran for president the last time, people clearly had bad feelings about her gender. Eight years ago, Hillary Clinton made a big deal of the fact that she was the first female major party nominee. I’m with Her, the campaign’s slogan, was a not-very-subtle reminder of her role as a trailblazer.
Madeleine Dean, a congresswoman from Pennsylvania, can recall discussing Hillary Clinton’s candidacy with voters. This week, Dean spent an afternoon campaigning in her district. She told me that in 2016, people would say, “There’s just something about her.”
According to her, she quickly realized that “It was about the “her.” That was real. It was because she was a woman.
She acknowledges that even though Dean believes that sentiment is less prevalent today, “there are certain people who just think ‘A powerful woman?'” No, an extension excessively far.'”
Since 2016, a lot has changed for women. The #MeToo development in 2017 expanded consciousness of the unpretentious – and the not really unobtrusive – separations ladies face at work. It altered our discourse regarding professional women. It’s possible that MeToo made it easier for Harris to win the nomination.
Yet, those huge steps in the right direction on the issues of variety, value, and consideration were deciphered by some as a stage back, particularly for young fellows who felt they’d been abandoned. Or, for conservative Americans who value gender roles that are more conventional, the changes were simply a step too far.
As a result, the election in November has become a referendum on gender norms and the social upheavals of recent years for some voters. This seems to be especially true for the voters that Kamala Harris has trouble getting to: the young men who live in a world that, well, is changing quickly for young men.
According to John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Institute of Politics, “young men often feel like if they ask questions they are labeled as misogynist, homophobic, or racist.”
“Many people become sucked into a bro-culture of Donald Trump or Elon Musk because they are frustrated at not feeling understood. They ask, “What about us?” when they see the Democrats’ focus on women, abortion rights, and LGTBQ culture.
Will the Harris-Cheney show convince Republicans who are against Trump?
Beyoncé encourages Americans to “sing a new song” at the Harris rally. Why Trump is courting WWE friends Della Volpe specializes in polling younger voters. Trump reveals his “biggest mistake” in the three-hour interview with Rogan. He asserts that the young men to whom he is referring are not members of a radical alt-right incel cabal. They are either your sons or the sons of your neighbors. He says that many people support women’s equality, but they also feel like their own concerns are not heard.
Della Volpe goes over a list of statistics that show how young men today are worse off than women: They are more likely than their female peers to commit suicide, are less likely to be in relationships, and are less likely to enroll in college.
In the meantime, young American women are speeding ahead. They have a higher level of education than men, work in expanding service industries, and increasingly earn more than men. According to the Gallup polling group, young women have also become significantly more liberal than young men since Donald Trump was elected president.
Which all results in a significant gender gap. According to the American Enterprise Institute, the proportion of young men who believe that the United States has gone “too far” in promoting gender equality has more than doubled in the past seven years.
Getty Images Donald Trump at a UFC match in June of last yearGetty Images Trump has been courting young male voters by engaging in locker room talk and attending UFC events. With his almost intuitive grasp of people’s dissatisfactions, Trump has tapped into that male frustration, and in the final weeks of his campaign, he has stepped up his emphasis on masculinity. On Truth Social, he republished a warning that read, “Manhood is Under Attack.” He recently made a joke about the genitalia of a famous golfer.
Trump said about Arnold Palmer, a golfer, “This is a guy that was all man.” When the other professionals saw him taking a shower with them, they exclaimed, “Oh my God.” That is beyond belief.
Trump removed the talk from the locker room, and his audience appreciated it. It was the ultimate protest against stifling political correctness, ranting about a man’s penis size at a political rally.
The Democrats seem to treat dissatisfied men with a dose of tough love at their rallies and on the airwaves. Some men “aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” according to Barack Obama’s reprimand. Actor Ed O’Neill was a little snappier but more direct in a new TV advertisement: Be manly: Give a woman your vote.
Gender is mentioned everywhere in the final days of this campaign, but nowhere else.
In this race, Donald Trump wants to put manhood first. Kamala Harris barely makes it clear that she is running for office as a woman. Trump holds a 14% lead among male voters in a New York Times poll. Women outnumber Harris by 12%.
