Women pose biggest threat to Trump, Republicans in November

[SecularMotion]

WASHINGTON — If 2016 has been the Year of Trump in politics, it may also end up being a new Year of the Woman, if Democrats get their way. And that won’t be a coincidence.

Democrats aim to have female Senate candidates on the ballot in nine states in November, a near-record, and these contenders will likely be sharing the ticket with the first major-party female presidential nominee in history in Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump, whose commanding win in Indiana cemented his improbable status as the Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee, is viewed unfavorably by 70 percent of women, according to Gallup. So as discomfited Republican Senate candidates released statements trying to change the topic or have it both ways Wednesday, Democrats made plans to link their largely male opponents to Trump, seeking to win back control of the Senate in November by electing Democratic women from coast to coast.

“I’ll tell you as a professional woman, too many women have had to fight Donald Trump’s type of sexism and offensive rhetoric their entire lives,” said Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona, who is challenging Republican Sen. John McCain and released an early ad in February tying the incumbent to Trump.

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/05/05/republicans-trump-face-biggest-threat/

[moonbabygo]

1. trump employs a lot of professional women

I suspect at some point they will come out and either trash him or praise him..

[Skittles]

2. I suspect they won't trash him

Trump is an extreme narcissist who cannot take even the lightest of criticisms - part of their salaries no doubt include sucking up to his fragile ego

[Stinky The Clown]

3. He loooooooves women.

He'll do well with women. After all, these woman centric campaign buttons were for sale at one of his rallies. He LOVES women. A regular Billy Flynn.

[Major Nikon]

4. In the last election, Romney got the majority of the male vote

He lost because the majority of women voted for Obama.

[pnwmom]

6. Romney got the majority of both white men and white women.

But Hillary has been winning majorities of white women in addition to the minority voters, men and women, who strongly voted for President Obama.

[Major Nikon]

7. Both of which are a shrinking demographic

So with each subsequent election, those particular majorities become less relevant. The GOP isn't going to survive relying on an increasingly larger share of a shrinking demographic.

[pnwmom]

8. True. The GOP is relying on a diminishing group of voters, and Trump is doing nothing to change that

[Major Nikon]

9. He's probably just accelerating it

I don't really see any way out of that death spiral. In order to appeal to an increasingly larger share of that demographic, they have to move farther into the extreme which ultimately drives away those in the middle. If they change to appeal to more of those in the middle, they alienate their core from which everything else depends.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. All those abortion lawsthey passed... thats why thwy should lose the women vote