Column | 'Like it or not': In one quote, Trump distills the 2024 gender gap

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump continued.
63% : While Trump has a well-established reputation for dishonesty, there are moments when he speaks with an unexpected clarity.
56% : I want to protect the women,'" Trump said.
53% : I don't even wait," Trump said while microphones were live during a 2005 taping of "Access Hollywood."
45% : But the overlap of a robust, well-established base of support for Trump that's centered on stoking the grievances of (mostly) White (mostly) men with the candidacy of a Black woman in the post-Roe world has revived some arguments that not too long ago would have seemed laughably archaic.
42% : In short order, a number of women came forward to describe Trump doing exactly that.
34% : By the time of his 2020 reelection bid, ABC News counted 18 public allegations against Trump.
33% : Since leaving office, there's even been a legal finding that Trump assaulted a woman.
29% : It's too crass to articulate exactly how groping or assaulting a woman comports with the phrase Trump used at his rally in Wisconsin.
29% : In other words, you don't have to vote for Trump if you don't like it.
28% : But others have leaned into a paternalistic and chauvinistic approach to getting Trump elected.
24% : The idea that these stories are baked into views of Trump is probably incomplete.
22% : The Washington Post's report on that recording led to CNN's Anderson Cooper asking Trump during a presidential debate whether he had in fact groped women as the recording suggested.
19% : Writer E. Jean Carroll filed a civil claim accusing Trump of sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.
17% : Trump denied it.
9% : Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently promised a cheering Trump audience that Trump would return to the White House like an abusive father, ready to dispense corporal punishment to get his children -- that is, Americans who deviate from how Trumpworld thinks they should act -- back in line.

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